Frontiers between crystal structure prediction and determination by powder diffractometry

Powder Diffraction

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Le Bail, Armel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Crystal structure prediction; Powder diffraction; Search match

Indexed keywords

CELL PARAMETER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE PREDICTION; HYPOTHETICAL MODELS; INTERSTITIAL CATIONS; POWDER DIFFRACTION; SEARCH-MATCH; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION; STRUCTURE SOLUTIONS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 44649116678     PISSN: 08857156     EISSN: 19457413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1154/1.2903488     Document Type: Article

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