By Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
The capability of collecting automatic 3D single crystal EDT data with high spatial resolutions (150 nm) allows investigating structural problems for low crystallinity and small size single crystal domains (Gemmi et al. 2015). A material with ordered domains of a few hundreds of nm can be studied as a collection of single crystals on which we can collect 3D EDT data about structure quality. Nanoparticles embedded in a matrix, amorphous or not, and crystals with polytypic sequences at the nanoscale can be also studied. For the first time using powder diffraction methods, we have the possibility to study the solid state at a scale at which only an average description was available, until now (Gemmi et al. 2016).
