This is a review of atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis as applied to the study of
molecular materials. The PDF method is a powerful approach to study short-and …

The development of new functional materials builds on an understanding of the intricate
relationship between material structure and properties, and structural characterization is a …

Studying the structure of disordered and partially ordered materials is notoriously difficult.
Recently, significant advances have been made using the atomic pair distribution function …

The correlation between structure and function lies at the heart of materials science and
engineering. Especially, modern functional materials usually contain inhomogeneities at an …

Over the past five years, the use of pair distribution function (PDF) methods to study local
structure has become increasingly prominent in the mainstream materials chemistry …

The pair distribution function (PDF) reveals directly in real space the interatomic distances in
a material. Recent applications have proved the PDF technique to be a powerful local …

Modern materials and their properties are often characterized by varying degrees of
disorder. Routine crystallographic structure solution only reveals the average structure. The …

The pair distribution function (PDF) is a versatile tool to describe the structure of disordered
and amorphous materials. Electron PDF (ePDF) uses the advantage of strong scattering of …

Emerging materials of scientific and technological interest are generally complex and often
nanostructured: they have atomic orderings that extend on nanometer length-scales. These …

The atomic pair distribution function (PDF) technique is a powerful approach to gain
quantitative insight into the structure of materials where the structural coherence extends …