Challenges in the structural science of materials

Articles published recently in IUCrJ continue to exemplify the developments and challenges in the structural science of materials.

[1]  Application of synchrotron through-the-substrate microdiffraction to crystals in polished thin sections , 2015, IUCrJ.

[2]  D. Keen.  Perovskites take the lead in local structure analysis , 2016, IUCrJ.

[3]  M. Brunelli,et al.  Percolating hierarchical defect structures drive phase transformation in Ce1−xGdxO2−x/2: a total scattering study , 2015, IUCrJ.

[4]  T. Egami.  Complexity at mesoscopic lengthscale , 2015, IUCrJ.

[5]  Claude Lecomte,et al.  Modelling the experimental electron density: only the synergy of various approaches can tackle the new challenges , 2015, IUCrJ.

[6]  A. J. den Dekker,et al.  Advanced electron crystallography through model-based imaging , 2016, IUCrJ.

[7]  B. Iversen,et al.  Demonstration of thin film pair distribution function analysis (tfPDF) for the study of local structure in amorphous and crystalline thin films , 2015, IUCrJ.

[8]  D. Schryvers,et al.  Direct Observation of Ferrielectricity at Ferroelastic Domain Boundaries in CaTiO3 by Electron Microscopy , 2012, Advanced materials.

[9]  M. Scheel,et al.  Real-time direct and diffraction X-ray imaging of irregular silicon wafer breakage , 2016, IUCrJ.

[10]  Cracks observed to propagate discontinuously on the millisecond timescale , 2016, IUCrJ.

[11]  R. Whitfield,et al.  Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis in modelling disorder in PZN (PbZn1/3Nb2/3O3) , 2016, IUCrJ.

[12]  A. Madsen,et al.  Yes, one can obtain better quality structures from routine X-ray data collection , 2016, IUCrJ.

[13]  Michele Parrinello,et al.  Metadynamics studies of crystal nucleation , 2015, IUCrJ.