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• PXRD Equipment in the Christopher Ingold Laboratories, Department of Chemistry
1. Siemens D500 Cu diffractometer with Scintillation Counter (room 313A)
2. Stoe Stadi-P Cu diffractometer (room 313)
3. Stoe Stadi-P Cu diffractometer with Mythen1K & CryojetHT (room 313)
4. Stoe Stadi-P Mo diffractometer with Mythen1K (room 313)
5. Stoe Stadi-P Mo diffractometer with Mythen1K & Stoe furnace (room 313)
6. Bruker D8 Advance test diffractometer (room 313)
7. Bruker D8 Discover Cu diffractometer with Lynxeye for grazing incidence (room 305)
8. Bruker D8 Discover Cu diffractometer with Vantex500 for spot analysis (room 305)
9. Bruker D4 Endeavor Cu diffractometer with auto sample changer (room 305)
• PXRD Training for Research Students
• Contact Martin Vickers ...
• Preparing Samples for PXRD @ UCL
1. Flat-plate samples for Bragg-Brentano diffractometers with Cu X-rays
• See UCL Moodle pages on CHEM3006/7/8 for video demonstrations
2. Thin foil samples for Stoe diffractometer with Mo X-rays
• See UCL Moodle pages on CHEM3006/7/8 for video demonstrations
3. Capillary samples for Stoe diffractometer with Cu or Mo X-rays
• Using Microsoft Excel for PXRD Data Visualisation and Analysis
1. Why use Excel for analysing PXRD data?
2. Importing PXRD data into Excel
3. Generation of an X-Y plot using Excel
4. Improving an X-Y plot in Excel
5. Importing an X-Y plot created in Excel into Word
6. Comparing two PXRD patterns in Excel
7. Plotting traditional d-I stick diagrams in Excel
• Qualitative Analysis by PXRD
1. Basic concepts
2. Databases
3. "Search-Match" concepts
4. Data collection for qualitative PXRD
5. Search-Match in practice with the ICDD's PDF4+
6. Examples of Qualitative Analysis

• Useful Links

Distance Learning Course on Powder Diffraction
        (produced in 1997-2006 in School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Crystallographic Space Group Diagrams and Tables
        (produced in 1997-1999 in School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London)

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