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January 10-11, 2008, Techno Community Square RICOTTI, Tokai, Japan |
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International Workshop on Structural Analyses Bridging over between Amorphous and Crystalline Materials (SABAC2008)
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Amorphous and crystalline materials are studied historically by individual groups with different approaches. Recent industrial functional materials such as optical memory material, thermoelectric material, hydrogen storage material, and ionic conductor have intrinsic atomic disorders in their lattices. These local lattice disorders cannot be studied by conventional crystal structure analyses such as Rietveld analysis. Similar difficulty also exists in the structure analysis of nanomaterials. Recent high-intensity quantum beams at modern facilities such as SPring-8 and J-PARC, however, enable simultaneous high-intensity and high-resolution diffraction measurements, leading to wide r-range atomic pair distribution function analysis. This new opportunity gives us a chance to study disordered crystal structures of modern functional materials. In this workshop, new approaches in this interdisciplinary field were discussed by both amorphous and crystalline material scientists. |
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January 10-11, 2008, Tokai, Japan |
