The advent of nanosciences calls for the development of local structural probes, in particular
to characterize ill-ordered or heterogeneous materials. Furthermore, because materials …

An emerging theme of modern composites and devices is the coupling of nanostructural
properties of materials with their targeted arrangement at the microscale. Of the imaging …

In recent times there has been much progress in the imaging of functional materials under
the process conditions typically used in a real industrial process. In this article the progress …

Unprecedented tools to image crystalline structure distributions in materials have been
made possible by recent advances in X-ray sources, X-ray optics and X-ray methods …

LabDCT derives 3D crystallographic information via diffraction contrast tomography (DCT)
within a commercial laboratory X-ray microscope (ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa) that uses a …

The understanding and management of strain is of fundamental importance in the design
and implementation of materials. The strain properties of nanocrystalline materials are …

During recent decades innovative nanomaterials have been extensively studied, aiming at
both investigating the structure-property relationship and discovering new properties, in …

The three-dimensional characterization method described herein is based on diffraction and
scattering techniques combined with tomography and uses the variation of these signals to …

X-ray powder diffraction is one of the most potential characterization tools and a
nondestructive technique for characterizing both organic and inorganic crystalline materials …

The structure of crystalline materials is typically organised hierarchically on several length
scales. Hard x-ray microscopy is presented as a collection of modalities that allows to zoom …