Oil palm ash (OPA), a bio-agricultural waste from oil palm mills, was subjected to high-energy ball milling for 30 h and was converted into a nano-structured material. The nano-structured OPA was characterized for its particle size and crystallinity index by using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis. The crystallite size obtained from TEM and XRD was foun...

This study examined the local structural properties of CuI at low temperatures of 10-300 K by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements at the Cu K edge. The XRD data were refined using two models, split (distorted zinc-blende structure) and non-split (zinc-blende structure), using a conventional Rietveld refinement combined with a maximum entropy...

Sintered samples of monoclinic zirconia (α-ZrO2) have been irradiated at room temperature with 6.0-GeV Pb ions in the electronic slowing down regime. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and micro-Raman spectroscopy measurements showed unambiguously that a transition to the ‘metastable’ tetragonal phase (β-ZrO2) occurred at a fluence of 6.5x10 cm for a large electronic stopping power value (≈ 32.5 MeV μm). ...

The quantitative Rietveld analyses of twenty samples of CAC from four different manufacturers over the world, one synthetic mixture and a NIST standard were performed using synchrotron radiation. As compared with conventional XRD, synchrotron powder diffraction permitted to find new minor phases, improve the characterization of solid solutions of iron rich CAC phases and reduce preferential ori...

Thin film of zinc oxide was prepared by spin coating on pyrex glass using zinc acetate dehydrate, 2methoxyethanol and monoethanolamine (MEA) as a precursor, solvent and stabilizer respectively. Also, Aluminium-doped thin film of ZnO was prepared by using AlCl3. Deposited thin films were investigated for structural and optical properties using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and UV–VIS-NIR spectrophotom...

Two non-destructive instrumental methods, infrared spectroscopy (IR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), were studied for quality evaluation of Lobelia chinensis Lour. (L. chinensis). We obtained the IR spectra and XRD patterns of L. chinensis collected from different sources. The similarity of samples was analyzed by calculating the cosine coefficient. The cosine values were in the range of 0.83-0.90...

Cadmium oxide (CdO) nanoparticles have been prepared by chemical coprecipitation method. The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV analysis, and dielectric studies. The crystalline nature and particle size of the CdO nanoparticles were characterized by Powder X-ray diffract...

Gilles Berhault, A. Mehta, F. Manciu, R.R. Chianelli, P. Afanasiev 1 Institut de Recherches en Catalyse et Environnement de Lyon, IRCELYON, UMR 5256 CNRS – Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne, F-69626 (France) 2 Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025 3 Materials Research Technology Institute, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968 *Gilles.Ber...