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Single Crystal Analysis:

• Crystal and molecular structure determination of all type of compounds;

• Identification based on the cell dimensions using CCDC database;

• Large small-molecule and small macromolecule structures;

• Integration and refinement of merohedral and non-merohedral twinned crystals;

• Absolute structure determination;

• Disorder modeling or removing it using squeeze procedure;

• 2D Powder diffraction from only a few grains;

• Publication quality check and illustrative materials preparation;

• Consulting on crystallography, structural, solid state and materials chemistry and patents.

Powder Diffraction

• Phase Identification (Qualitative analysis) using ICDD database;

• Semi-Quantitative (EVA) & Quantitative (Topas) phase analysis;

• Ab initio unit cell indexing;

• High precision lattice parameters determination;

• Ab initio crystal structure determination from powder data;

• The Rietveld refinement of the crystal structure including accurate phase composition;

• Fast (up to 1 hour) yet quality data collection using LynxEye strip detector;

• High profile quality and low background data using Solid State detector;

• Choice of MoK_α, CuK_α or single wavelength CuK_β radiation;

• Amorphous content/Degree of crystallinity determination using internal or external standards;

• Microstructure and texture analysis; crystallite (grain) size and micro-strain determination;
   

• Microdiffraction using Göbbel mirror and area detector;

• Good data from miniscule samples - several milligrams and tens of millimeter in size;

• Large samples up to several kilograms and a foot long;

• Quality diffraction data and mapping of thin films (down to nanometer thickness);

• Effective avoiding of x-ray diffraction from the single crystal substrate;

• Standardless amorphous to crystalline single phase ratio for polymers and pharmaceutics;

• Neutron data collection & analysis in collaboration with NIST;
   

• Experience and expertise in chemistry, structure and analysis of all classes:
  - metals, alloys and intermetallic compounds;
  - inorganic compounds and complexes;
  - minerals, zeolites and intercalates;
  - organic, metal-organics and organometallic complexes.
   

• Powder X-ray characterization of materials with applications in:
  - manufacturing process and quality control;
  - raw material analysis in mining;
  - drug quality and purity in pharmaceutical industry;
  - crystallinity of polymers and nano-materials;
  - forensic analysis;
  - patent evaluation and more.