The importance of total scattering and its Fourier transform, the pair distribution function, in
crystallography was understood soon after it was shown that crystals diffract X-rays …

Functional materials design normally focuses on structurally ordered systems because
disorder is considered detrimental to many functional properties. Here we challenge this …

Van Vleck modes describe all possible displacements of octahedrally coordinated ligands
about a core atom. They are a useful analytical tool for analysing the distortion of octahedra …

LaMnO 3 is considered as a prototypical Jahn-Teller perovskite compound, exhibiting a
metal-to-insulator transition at TJT= 750 K related to the joint appearance of an electronic …

Below its Jahn–Teller transition temperature, T JT, NaNiO2 has a monoclinic layered
structure consisting of alternating layers of edge-sharing NaO6 and Jahn–Teller-distorted …

We study the compositional dependence of molecular orientation (multipolar) and orbital
(quadrupolar) order in the perovskite-like metal–organic frameworks [C (NH2) 3] Cu x Cd1–x …

We use a combination of neutron and x-ray total scattering measurements together with pair
distribution function (PDF) analysis to characterize the variation in local structure across the …

In this paper, we investigated the effect of annealing temperature on the electrical and
magnetic properties of polycrystalline Nd0. 7Ca0. 3MnO3 synthesized using the well-known …

We investigate the nature of the phase transition of the ferromagnetic Potts model with
invisible states. The ferromagnetic Potts model with invisible states can be regarded as a …

Using high resolution x-ray diffraction (XRD) on high purity powders, we resolved the
structure and ab symmetry of the intriguing compound Sr 2 VO 4 from room temperature …