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Probing the structure of heterogeneous diluted materials by diffraction tomography

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The advent of nanosciences calls for the development of local structural probes, in particular to characterize ill-ordered or heterogeneous material. Furthermore, because materials properties are often related to their heterogeneity and the hierarchical arrangement of their structure, different structural probes covering a wide range of scales are required. X-ray diffraction is one of the prime structural methods but suffers from a relatively low detection limit, whereas transmission electron analysis involves destructive sample preparation. Here we show the potential of coupling pencil-beam tomography with X-ray diffraction to examine unidentified phases in nanomaterials and polycrystalline materials. The demonstration is carried out on a high-pressure pellet containing several carbon phases and on a heterogeneous powder containing chalcedony and iron pigments. The present method enables a non-invasive structural refinement with a weight sensitivity of one part per thousand. It enables the extraction of the scattering patterns of amorphous and crystalline compounds with similar atomic densities and compositions. Furthermore, such a diffraction tomography experiment can be carried out simultaneously with X-ray fluorescence, Compton and absorption tomographies, enabling amultimodal analysis of prime importance in materials science, chemistry, geology, environmental science, medical science, palaeontology and cultural heritage.
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hal-00188490 , version 1 (17-11-2007)

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Pierre Bleuet, Eleonore Welcomme, Eric Dooryhee, Jean Susini, Jean-Louis Hodeau, et al.. Probing the structure of heterogeneous diluted materials by diffraction tomography. Nature Materials, 2008, 7, pp.468-472. ⟨10.1038/nmat2168⟩. ⟨hal-00188490⟩
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