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6- *C. L. Farrow, P. Juhás, J. W. Liu, D. Bryndin, E. S. Božin, J. Bloch,
6+ *C. L. Farrow, P. Juhás, J. W. Liu, D. Bryndin, E. S. Božin, J. Bloch,
77and S. J. L. Billinge (Michigan State University)*
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9- To understand and control the properties of materials it is necessary to have
10- a detailed knowledge of their atomic structure. Increasingly, we are interested
11- in exploiting materials with complex structures on the nanoscale, which presents
12- special experimental challenges as crystallography, the standard approach to
13- structure determination, loses its power on these length-scales. Alternative
14- methods sensitive to nanoscale order are under development. The diffraction
15- sub-group of the DANSE project recently released a new software tool that
16- will have a large impact in nanostructure characterization using x-ray and
9+ To understand and control the properties of materials it is necessary to have
10+ a detailed knowledge of their atomic structure. Increasingly, we are interested
11+ in exploiting materials with complex structures on the nanoscale, which presents
12+ special experimental challenges as crystallography, the standard approach to
13+ structure determination, loses its power on these length-scales. Alternative
14+ methods sensitive to nanoscale order are under development. The diffraction
15+ sub-group of the DANSE project recently released a new software tool that
16+ will have a large impact in nanostructure characterization using x-ray and
1717neutron diffraction.
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2525 Screen-shot of PDFgui during a refinement of multiple data-sets
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28- The diffraction data are Fourier transformed to obtain the atomic pair distribution
29- function (PDF) and analyzed by quantitatively fitting nanostructure models to the
30- data. PDFgui allows rapid setup of individual and multiple
31- refinements. This program will be implemented at the
32- POWGEN3 and NOMAD diffractometers at SNS with macros to allow real-time parametric
33- refinements similar to those shown, allowing researchers to make scientific
34- discoveries during data collection, at the beam-time, and not a-posteriori after
35- the beamtime is over. PDFgui has numerous extensions
36- that are described in more detail in [#]_. The beta version of PDFgui
37- is now in public release, available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX platforms,
38- and in the first month has been downloaded 220 times. More information can be
28+ The diffraction data are Fourier transformed to obtain the atomic pair distribution
29+ function (PDF) and analyzed by quantitatively fitting nanostructure models to the
30+ data. PDFgui allows rapid setup of individual and multiple
31+ refinements. This program will be implemented at the
32+ POWGEN3 and NOMAD diffractometers at SNS with macros to allow real-time parametric
33+ refinements similar to those shown, allowing researchers to make scientific
34+ discoveries during data collection, at the beam-time, and not a-posteriori after
35+ the beamtime is over. PDFgui has numerous extensions
36+ that are described in more detail in [#]_. The beta version of PDFgui
37+ is now in public release, available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX platforms,
38+ and in the first month has been downloaded 220 times. More information can be
3939found at http://www.diffpy.org.
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