The Chemistry Department at Durham University has state-of-the art equipment for powder diffraction measurements and members of staff have considerable expertise in all aspects of this analytical technique.
We interact with a number of companies both in the UK and overseas in the application of powder diffraction techniques and with a number of other universities and research institutions on the development of experimental and computational methods in powder diffraction.
We also host a biennial residential training course on powder diffraction and Rietveld refinement.
Powder diffraction is a key analytical method in a number of different areas of science. Typical applications include: