I wonder which type of X-ray scattering or diffraction will provide more information of a liquid crystalline polymer, that will be a confirmation relate to the mesophase type.
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Well. It is highly dependent on which spatial scale you need. If you care about lattice scale down to angstrom. You should use WXAD or WXAS. If you want the meso-scale information in nm scale, you should use SAXS.
Perhaps it is more useful to think both small and wide angle x-ray scattering can contain diffraction peaks. The critical issue is the length scales and therefore the angle that you expect to see the repeat spacing on.
Based on your abstract: "Liquid crystal polymer nanofibers with a diameter ranging from 0.13 to 4.71 µm were prepared by electrospinning from a main-chain liquid crystalline polyester, BB-5(3-Me)." If these are the length scales you want to confirm than you will to use USAXS (ultra-small angle x-ray scattering) at a synchrotron source.
Dear Lawrence Margulies many thanks for your reply , that means our SAXS/WAXS device Nanostar will not be useful
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