Jp Xu

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Can anyone recommend a good introductory polymer book?

Can someone recommend a good polymer book for someone whose background is not in polymers, but has a general understanding of how they work and sufficient background in materials science? I am...

02 February 2014 10,033 9 View

How to determine possible shapes of free standing crystals?

If you are growing some crystals (for example, silicon), what are the possible shapes? Such as hexagons, cubes, octagon, etc. How can I determine the possible shapes? Or if I see a shape, say...

04 April 2013 1,159 1 View

For YSZ's yttria depletion, do yttria come out from cubic or tetragonal phase?

Please see attached YSZ phase diagram. If I am at the red arrow, moving left due to yttria depletion. Does the depletion stop at the T/(T+F) line, or can it keep going all the way to the left....

03 March 2013 2,273 5 View

Is Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) a common tool in materials science?

Reviewing an article using RBS to quantify oxidation status and diffusion of some barrier coating layer. Personally I have not used this tool therefore not very familiar with it, and have not...

12 December 2012 452 21 View

Is there a program to calculate theoritical density from CIF/AMS file of a crystal?

I know this could be done manually, but I am tweaking the lattice structure, therefore a (free) software approach will be the best! I have VESTA and FullProfSuite but did not see this feature in...

12 December 2012 3,768 25 View

Can a single crystal have a (220) but NOT a (110) plane, but a powder sample can have both?

I'm studying a deposited thin film, in powder form. I see both (110) and (220) peaks. However in what appears to be an epitaxial film, I only see a very strong (220) peak but not a (110) peak.....

12 December 2012 481 2 View

What is a good&reliable site to download crystallography CIF/AM files?

When I google there are multiple download links from different sources, I just want to know a standard database that crystallographers use. Thanks

12 December 2012 5,395 11 View

What is a good program to visually overlay two plane of atoms of two different crystals?

I am trying to compare different planes of two different crystals to see the misfit (for an epitaxy process). There might be different programs out there that can do this, I began with VESTA...

12 December 2012 9,934 12 View