{"id":200848,"date":"2024-12-06T05:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/x-ray-data-enhanced-computational-method-can-determine-crystal-structures-of-multiphase-materials"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:41:43","slug":"x-ray-data-enhanced-computational-method-can-determine-crystal-structures-of-multiphase-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/x-ray-data-enhanced-computational-method-can-determine-crystal-structures-of-multiphase-materials","title":{"rendered":"X-ray data-enhanced computational method can determine crystal structures of multiphase materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-ray-data-enhanced-computational-method-can-determine-crystal-structures-of-multiphase-materials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has developed a new computational method that can efficiently determine the crystal structures of multiphase materials, powders that contain more than one type of crystal structures. The method can predict the structure directly from powder X-ray diffraction patterns, the patterns of X-rays passing through crystals roughly the same size as instant coffee particles.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike conventional methods, this approach does not require the use of \u201clattice constants\u201d and can be applied to existing experimental data that could not be analyzed until now. Thus, the new method is a crucial asset for discovering new material phases and developing new materials. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/jcp\/article\/161\/21\/214113\/3323907\/Data-assimilated-crystal-growth-simulation-for\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in The Journal of Chemical Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Many materials can have several crystal structures, \u201cphases,\u201d even in the same solid state. Determining the underlying crystal structures of materials is essential for understanding their properties and formulating strategies to develop new materials. However, conventional methods make calculations using the \u201clattice constant,\u201d a property of the crystal being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has developed a new computational method that can efficiently determine the crystal structures of multiphase materials, powders that contain more than one type of crystal structures. The method can predict the structure directly from powder X-ray diffraction patterns, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}