X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization technique that is unfortunately hard for amateurs to perform. The physical ...

Polymers such as polypropylene are fundamental materials in the modern world, found in everything from computers to cars. Because of their ubiquity, it's vital that materials scientists know exactly ...

Machine learning (ML) has become a valuable tool to assist and improve materials characterization, enabling automated interpretation of experimental results with techniques such as X-ray diffraction ...

Crystal structure determination is fundamental in materials science, particularly when studying previously unreported compounds. In academic contexts, X-ray diffraction is one of the most widely used ...

Mini Das is a Moores professor at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. University of Houston researchers developed a new X-ray ...