Like a tiny needle in a sprawling hayfield, a single crystal grain measuring just tens of millionths of a meter - found in a borehole sample drilled in Central Siberia - had an unexpected chemical ...

This image is an X-ray diffraction pattern produced by a few fibres of the sepiolite from Norway. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Since the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals just over 100 years ago, X-ray diffraction as a method of structure determination has dominated structural research in materials science ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 13 (Mar. 28, 2006), pp. 4924-4929 (6 pages) Work carried out over the last 30 years unveiled the role of ...

Single-crystal diffraction was invented 100 years ago by Max von Laue. It has since become a workhorse technique for chemists to determine the structures of organometallic complexes and other ...

On October 9, Dr. Max von Laue, professor of theoretical physics in the University of Berlin, will be sixty years old, and we take the opportunity to congratulate him on his brilliant scientific work, ...

Researchers studied quartz from the San Andreas Fault at the microscopic scale, the scale at which earthquake-triggering stresses originate. The results could one day lead to a better understanding of ...

Photonic Science back-reflection Laue system allows real-time crystal orientation down to 0.1 degrees accuracy. The system delivers an intense X-ray beam with less than 0.3mm on sample. Single ...

Particle size analysis is crucial to quality control and product development in a number of key industries including aerosols, construction, food and beverage, paint and coatings, and pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Philippe Sarrazin focuses his research at SETI on the development of analytical X-ray instruments for in-situ planetary exploration. He works in close partnership with scientists in the Exobiology ...