Hot Article: Le Bail fitting used to extract single-crystal diffraction data

10 Feb 2012

A team of researchers have determined the structure of metastable compound Bi₂Mn_xAl_7−xO₁₄, an intermediate phase in the decomposition of mullite-Bi₂Mn_xAl_4-xO_9+δ, using a strategy that included the use of a charge-flipping algorithm and Monte-Carlo based simulations. The strategy may be particularly useful in situations where it is difficult to get high quality crystals.