"Ordinary day of a powder diffractionist"

(X-ray powder diffraction at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the CAS in Řež)

Petr Bezdička, Sivlie Švarcová

ALMA Laboratory

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences

č. p. 1001, 250 68 Husinec - Řež

X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) is an indispensable technique for any chemist, mineralogist and any other scientist or engineer. The laboratory of XRPD exist in the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences for more than 25 years. This talk will introduce this laboratory and its instrumentation.

Few case studies will demonstrate the everyday activities of the Laboratory, some hints for performing the XRPD analyses, preparation of samples and measurement techniques, among them those connected with projects addressed to the Institute, e.g. projects in the ALMA Laboratory and the NanoEnviCz infrastructure.

Last but not least, some unusual samples passed through our systems will be also presented.