X-ray diffraction is one of the most important and powerful techniques to characterize solid materials and to determine their crystal structure at the atomic level. Although single-crystal X-ray diffraction is commonly used for this latter purpose, many materials crystallize only as conglomerate of very small crystallites and, for precisely this reason, they are employed in such a polycrystalline (powder) form, for example pharmaceuticals (optimal solubility properties), catalysts (increased surface area), pigments (increase dispersibility), triglycerides (fats and oils). 
   Crystal-structure determination from powder-diffraction data is one of the research specialisms of the Laboratory for Crystallography (UvA) and encompasses both the development of methodological improvements as well as the actual crystal-structure determinations on the basis of experimental powder-diffraction data (Publications).

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