Ask an expert: Get the most from your non-ambient measurements!

Join our next Ask an Expert webinar to unlock easier in-situ experiments

Whether it’s in crystallographic analysis or physics, non-ambient, or in situ, X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments can provide very useful data. Why? To monitor your materials, you often need to know about their structural properties – their crystallographic symmetry, crystallite size, and the size and shape of any nanoparticles or pores. And all these properties can be affected by changes in temperature, pressure, gas atmosphere, mechanical stress, and more.

By providing non-ambient measurements, in situ XRD helps you analyze how these environmental changes are affecting your material’s properties. For instance, in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), in-situ X-ray analysis can help assess structural characterization and locate guest molecules. Sometimes, non-ambient XRD experiments are the only choice to accurately characterize these changes.

So, whether it’s for optimizing your manufacturing process, tuning a synthesis procedure, or state-of-the-art research, there’s no doubt that this approach can give you answers to your problems. But non-ambient X-ray diffraction experiments also have limitations – in particular, they can be long and challenging. And, when you’re spending so much time on them, you want to make sure you’re gathering as much information as possible. How can you do this?

Say hello to Malvern Panalytical’s solutions

Well, our solutions are here to help! In fact, almost all our XRD instruments can be used in situ. Through a combination of optimized hardware and software integration, we aim to offer you top data quality, optimum results, and versatile solutions – with minimum effort from you.

For instance, our Empyrean X-ray diffractometers are ideal for analyzing powders. With long lifetimes, you can be sure they’ll endure many non-ambient experiments. Next to that, our Aeris diffractometers offer an integrated non-ambient stage, so you can model your material’s robustness in the toughest operating conditions.

Intrigued? Why not come to our next webinar?

But that’s not all. To help you make the most of these instruments, we also hold in-house and on-site application courses, user days, and webinars – so you’re always up to date on the latest tips and tricks. That’s exactly why we’ve organized a webinar dedicated to helping you get the best from your non-ambient XRD experiments!

On April 21, this Ask an Expert! webinar will help you prepare the best possible experiment. Our expert Gwilherm Nénert will show how far you can push your data analysis to get valuable information such as order parameters, temperature evolution, and spontaneous strain determination. By learning about the key things to watch out for, you’ll be able to maximize the information you get from your non-ambient experiments – enjoying an easy ride along the way.

Ask an expert

‘Ask an expert’ is for students, researchers or professors who want to sharpen their analytical method, deepen their knowledge, or may be starting a new research and want to know what can help improve their data. After all, science moves faster when we share what we know. 

You can submit any questions in advance by emailing askanexpert@MalvernPanalytical.com or using the #MPexpert hashtag on Twitter. And, of course, don’t forget to register – Our in-house expert Gwilherm Nénert, Principal Scientist, will then handle a selection of the incoming questions during the live webinar. In other words, this is the ultimate way of improving your materials science research!

We’ll see you there!