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 MoKα, CuKα or single wavelength CuKβ 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.