Herein we communicate the first example of a pressure induced octahedral tilting distortion in a double perovskite phase, which was observed during the structural characterization of Ba2YTaO6 using high-pressure synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction.

Magnetic-fluorescent lanthanide doped sodium lutetium fluoride (NaLuF4:Yb3+/Er3+/Gd3+) nanocrystals were synthesized via facile hydrothermal method by varying concentration of Gd3+. Powder X-ray powder diffraction (PXRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM),transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), p...

In this systematic and comprehensive study, inhalation powders of the polypeptide immunosuppressant drug - cyclosporine A - for lung delivery as dry powder inhalers (DPIs) were successfully designed, developed, and optimized. Several spray drying pump rates were rationally chosen. Comprehensive physicochemical characterization and imaging was carried out using scanning electron microscopy, hot-...

The crystalline structure of cellulose has been studied for a long time. It is well known that crystallinity of cellulose can be measured using quite a number of methods, X-ray diffraction, solid state C CP-MAS NMR, Fourier transforminfrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The solid state C CP-MAS NMR and FT-IR spectroscopy considers contributions from both crystalline and non-crys...

One-dimensional (1D) coordination polymer, [Zn(4,4´-bpy)(H2O)4](ADC).4H2O (1) (4,4´-bpy = 4,4´-bipyridine and H2ADC = acetylenedicarboxylic acid), and three-dimensional (3D) metal-organic framework (MOF), Zn(ADC)2.(HTEA)2(2) (HTEA = triethylamine) were prepared at room temperature. The compounds were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) analyses....

Serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography (SFX) has created new opportunities in the field of structural analysis of protein nanocrystals. The intensity and timescale characteristics of the X-ray free-electron laser sources used in SFX experiments necessitate the analysis of a large collection of individual crystals of variable shape and quality to ultimately solve a single, average crystal stru...

In this research we report synthesis of new Barium- Cobalt precursor complex with 2,6- pyridine dicarboxylic acid (dipic).Thecomplex[Ba(H2O)6][Co(dipic)2[(1)has been characterized using spectral methods (FT-IR, UV–Vis),elemental analysis and Cyclic voltammetric (CV) method. Also in this study we report thermal decomposition of inorganic precursor complex of (1).Characterization of the binary ox...

The influence of short-time milling on the atomic structure of amorphous Co(70.3)Fe(4.7)B(25) has been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), x-ray powder diffraction (XRD), vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) and x-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) techniques. Our results prove that the milling process crystallizes the initially amorphous sample and that the degree of inhe...

The bulk SnO2 was synthesized by oxidizing the fine powder (50 mesh) of metallic tin (purity 99.99, Aldrich) powder at 750°C for 9 hrs hours in programmable temperature controlled furnace. The gross structure and phase purity of the powder sample ground from sintered pellets were examined by powder X-ray diffraction technique. The phase identification /gross structural characteristics of synthe...