diffractie Qualitative and quantitative analysis of materials
Laboratory for
Crystallography		 Non-destructive surface/thin layer analysis

Polymorph determination
  Physical properties of materials

Crystal-structure determination from powder-diffraction data

XRD-Center  
UvA

 Time-resolved and temperature-controlled experiments

The XRD-center of the Universiteit van Amsterdam


The XRD-center is one of the two service departments of the laboratory for  Crystallography. The XRD-center uses X-Ray powder diffraction techniques to solve various  problems. These non-destructive techniques can be used for different analyses, often as the only alternative for destructive methods. Only a small sample is usually necessary for most determinations, sometimes a few milligrams are  allready enough.  The main condition is that the material is (partly) crystalline.Many materials fulfill this requirement :

The power of X-ray powder diffaction (XRPD)

Each crystalline material diffracts X-rays in a unique way, so resulting in a material-characteristic diffraction pattern. If the material consists of a large amount of crystallites (powder or polycrystalline sample), an XRPD pattern is obtained, consisting of diffracted intensities vs  diffraction angle. An XRPD pattern can be obtained in very short time and the analysis of XRPD patterns has many possible applications.

email  

Contact us for conditions :

Dr. René Peschar  +31 (0) 20 525 7040 ; r.peschar@uva.nl

Mr. Ed Sonneveld +31 (0) 20  525 6574 ; e.j.sonneveld@uva.nl

Drs. Kees Goubitz +31 (0) 20 525 7038 ; k.goubitz@uva.nl

FAX +31 (0) 20 525 6940

E-MAIL : xrd@science.uva.nl

Address:
XRD-Center
Laboratory for Crystallography
van 't Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences (HIMS)
Faculty of Sciences
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Valckenierstraat 65
1018 XE Amsterdam
The Netherlands