Crystals are a state of matter characterized by periodic order. Yet, crystalline materials can
harbour disorder in many guises, such as non-repeating variations in composition, atom …

Over the 100 years since the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, structure
determination based on the analysis of Bragg peaks has grown into a very precise, widely …

Prussian blue analogues (PBAs) are a diverse family of microporous inorganic solids,
known for their gas storage ability, metal-ion immobilization, proton conduction, and stimuli …

Diffuse X-ray scattering is a rich source of local structural information over and above that
obtained by conventional crystal structure determination. The main aim of the book is to …

Abstract Structure-property relationships in ordered materials have long been a core
principle in materials design. However, the introduction of disorder into materials provides …

Covalent long-range ordered (crystalline) sheets called 2D polymers have recently been
synthesized by irradiating single crystals of suitably packed monomers. To have such an …

PbTe-based thermoelectric materials remain of great interest due to their peculiar dynamic
behavior and high thermoelectric performance. The true structure of pristine PbTe has been …

Ferroelectrics find broad applications, eg in non-volatile memories, but the switching kinetics
in real, disordered, materials is still incompletely understood. Here, we develop an …

The solid phases of gold (i) and/or silver (i) cyanides are supramolecular assemblies of
inorganic polymer chains in which the key structural degrees of freedom—namely, the …

Data reduction and correction steps and processed data reproducibility in the emerging
single-crystal total-scattering-based technique of three-dimensional differential atomic pair …