clay minerals are considered the most important components of clastic reservoir rock evaluation studies. the shurijeh gas reservoir formation, represented by shaly sandstones of the late jurassic-early cretaceous age, is the main reservoir rock in the eastern kopet-dagh sedimentary basin, ne iran. in this study, x-ray diffraction (xrd), x-ray fluorescence (xrf), scanning electron microscopic (s...

Results of an experimental study of Cu-Co alloys containing 0.3 to 5.0 wt% Co are presented. A series of solution annealed Cu-Co alloys were analyzed by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). Each Ka doublet was resolved by fitting a Pearson Type VII profile. Precise lattice parameter as a function of cobalt content deviated significantly from Vegard’s law but was in r...

The structure of a crystalline material may be described by a crystal lattice structure and the locations of atoms in this lattice. The crystal lattice is a 3-dimensional periodic array that defines the symmetries, i.e. shape, of the crystal. There are seven possible crystal lattices: cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, rombohedral, orthorhombic, monoclinic and triclinic. When we define the possible ...

Crystallographic studies of low symmetry organic molecular crystalline solids were performed by using XRD diffraction method. The well defined peaks appeared in the XRD profile of solids was indexed by using sin2 ratio method to understand the planes producing these peaks. The hkl values and d-spacing of the planes obtained from XRD file of diffractometer machine are feed into the software prog...

A specially designed specimen holder employing a beryllium dome has been fabricated for collection of XRD data from highly reactive materials. The specimen holder has a robust o-ring type seal (>10 torr) and no observed intensity artifacts in the 1° to 150° 2θ range. The design also minimizes specimen displacement errors and allows for analysis of both powders and bulk specimens (i.e., pellets)...

High energy 2D X-ray powder diffraction experiments are widely used for lattice strain measurement. The 2D to 1D conversion of diffraction patterns is a necessary step used to prepare the data for full pattern refinement, but is inefficient when only peak centre position information is required for lattice strain evaluation. The multi-step conversion process is likely to lead to increased error...

Structures of carbon supported Pt-Ru catalyst in a polymer-electrolyte-fuel-cell (PEFC) were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAFS). XRD analysis identified a face-centered-cubic (fcc) alloy structure for Pt-Ru. XAFS analysis revealed that Pt and Ru atoms were, however, not randomly distributed in the Pt-Ru fcc lattice. A Pt atom was more likely surrounded ...

Nano sized ZnS and MnS2 were synthesized through a simple wet chemical route. In this Synthesis metal sulfides were used as the starting material and allowed to react with the transition metal source at 60°C for 75 minutes. The products were characterized by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Photoluminescence spectra (PL), Raman Spectra, Thermogravimetry analysis Diff...