Re: Unit cell accessible volume

2015-06-19 Thread GREGORKIEWITZ MICHAEL
dear Othman, you might try a program called buits which allows, if I remember well, to define the radius of a probe used to fill up empty space with an irregular surface. The reference is Jordi Rius. J Appl Cryst (1991) 24, 187-189. We used this program to determine void volumes in ionic

source of diamond powder for internal standard

2015-06-19 Thread Tony Raftery
Anyone, Can someone tell me where to source diamond for use as internal standard. It needs to be 'ideal' - small particle size ( 1um would be good), narrow particle size distribution, elementally pure (which precludes most 'natural' diamond), fully crystalline (or near so). Please contact me

Re: source of diamond powder for internal standard

2015-06-19 Thread Jonathan WRIGHT
Hello In the reference below they say they purchased 2-4 micron grain size from Nilaco (perhaps it was: http://nilaco.jp/en/order.php?DIR=CHEMIMENU=15CODE=FROM=14ITEM1=Diamond_PowderITEM2=Powder). /J. Synchrotron Rad./(2014).*21*, 119-126[doi:10.1107/S1600577513028269

Re: source of diamond powder for internal standard

2015-06-19 Thread Fabrizio Guzzetta
Nowadays are available also nano-diamonds which might be of use. Alternatively, depending on what is your substrate, you can use pure silicon crystals. In any case, be sure that the reference pattern will not interfere with your sample one otherwise it will be difficult to distinguish between

Re: source of diamond powder for internal standard

2015-06-19 Thread Matthew Rowles
Hi Tony I think we used diamond polishing powder when I was at CSIRO. Lots of different sizes available. Matthew On 19 Jun 2015 3:13 pm, Tony Raftery a.raft...@qut.edu.au wrote: Anyone, Can someone tell me where to source diamond for use as internal standard. It needs to be ‘ideal’ –