X-ray cross correlation analysis uncovers hidden local symmetries in disordered matter

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 11511-11514

  Wochner, Peter ^a   Gutt, Christian ^b   Autenrieth, Tina ^b   Demmer, Thomas ^a   Bugaev, Volodymyr ^a   Ortiz, Alejandro Díaz ^a   Duri, Agnès ^b   Zontone, Federico ^c   Grübel, Gerhard ^b   Dosch, Helmut ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Coherent X ray diffraction; Higher order correlations; Structure

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; X RAY; ALGORITHM; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAYS;

EID: 67650912134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905337106     Document Type: Article

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