Disordered crystalline functional materials

Shamoto, Shinichi  

There are modern functional materials with disordered crystal structures. These functional materials have disordered part and high crystalline part in their crystal structures. The atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis is suitable to investigate their disordered crystal structures. For example, the importance of the research would be how effectively disorders are introduced in their crystal structures, while keeping the electric conducting part to be highly crystalline. Pulsed neutron powder diffraction is one of the best tools for this type of research.