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EPDIC 12
Proceedings of the
Twelfth European Powder Diffraction Conference
held
August 27-30, 2010
in
Darmstadt, Germany
Editors
1 2
Hartmut Fuess , Paolo Scardi
o
and Udo Welzel
1 Institute of Materials Science, University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
2 Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies,
University of Trento, Italy
3 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
(formerly Max Planck Institute of Metals Research), Stuttgart, Germany
Proceedings No. 1 of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie
Oldenbourg Verlag
EPDIC 12
Twelfth European Powder Diffraction Conference
Darmstadt, Germany, August 27 - 30, 2010
Conference location: Darmstadtium Conference Center, Darmstadt, Germany
Conference chairman: Hartmut Fuess
Organising committee: Barbara Albert
Wolfgang Donner
Helmut Ehrenberg
Hartmut Fuess
Achim Kleebe
Ralf Riedel
Christina Roth
Ingrid Svoboda
Scientific programme committee: Paolo Scardi, Trento, Italy (Chair)
Robert J. Cernik, Dares bury, UK (Co-chair)
Udo Welzel, Stuttgart, Germany (Co-chair)
Nathalie Audebrand, Rennes, France
Pierre Bordet, Grenoble, France
Radovan Cerny, Genève, Switzerland
William I.F. David, Oxon, UK
Andrew Fitch, Grenoble, France
Hartmut Fuess, Darmstadt, Germany
Antonella Guagliardi, Bari, Italy
Torbjörn Gustafsson, Uppsala, Sweden
Sergey A. Ivanov, Moscow, Russia
Jens Erik Jorgesen, Aarhus, Denmark
Arnt Kern, Karlsruhe, Germany
Radomir Kuzel, Prague, Czech Republic
Christian Lengauer, Vienna, Austria
Irene Margiolaki, Patras, Greece
Anton Meden, Ijubljana, Slovenia
Bogdan Palosz, Warsaw, Poland
David Rafaja, Freiberg, Germany
Jordi Rius, Barcelona, Spain
Arnold Vermeulen, Almelo, The Netherlands
EPDIC12 has been supported by:
• AJK Analytical Services (Bergen op Zoom/The Netherlands)
• ¡analytic consulti GmbH & Co. KG (Roth/Germany)
• Anton Paar GmbH (Graz/Austria)
• Bruker AXS GmbH (Karlsruhe/Germany)
• Crystal Impact GbR (Bonn/Germany)
• GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH (Hürth/Germany)
• Hecus X-Ray Systems (Graz/Austria)
• HUBER Diffraktionstechnik GmbH & Co. KG (Rimsting/Germany)
• INCOATEC GmbH (Geesthacht/Germany)
• INEL (Artenay/France)
• International Centre for Diffraction Data ICDD(Newtown Square/USA)
• International Union of Crystallography IUCr (Chester, UK)
• Marresearch GmbH (Norderstedt/Germany)
• MaTeck GmbH (Juelich/Germany)
• Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH (München/Germany)
• Panalytical GmbH (Kassel/Germany)
• Rayonix LLC (Evanston/USA)
• Rigaku
• Röntgenlabor Dr. Ermrich (Reinheim/Germany)
• Sietronics Pty Limited (Canberra/Australia)
• Stoe & Cie GmbH (Darmstadt/Germany)
• Xenocs SA (Sassenage/France)
Ζ. Kristallogr. Proc. 1 (2011) ix-x/DOI 10.1524/zkpr.2011.0075 ix
© by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, München
PREFACE
The 12th edition of the European Powder Diffraction Conference EPDIC12 has been
organized at Darmstadt from the 27th to the 30th of August, 2010. As the European
Crystallographic Meeting ECM26 gathered scientists from the 29th of August to the 2nd of
September an almost complete representation of Crystallography in Europe was achieved.
More than 1300 participants came to Darmstadt to present their latest results in plenary and
keynote lectures, in microsymposia, poster shows or in the commercial exhibition. The city
of Darmstadt is situated in the centre of the Federal Republic of Germany and access is easy
by rail, motorways and Frankfurt International Airport. Former capital of the Grand-Duché
of Hessen until 1918 and the Land Hessen from 1918 to 1945, the town is now known as the
"City of Sciences" (Stadt der Wissenschaft) with important institutions like the Gesellschaft
für Schwerionenforschung GSI and the European Space Agencies ESA and ESOC. The
Technische Universität Darmstadt, founded in 1836, is a well known centre of education for
engineers and scientists. The University is linked through many channels with the GSI,
ESOC, several Fraunhofer Institutes or the local MERCK company (pharmacy and
chemistry). Therefore it was quite normal that the University together with EPDIC and EC A
committees invited scientists to join at the newly constructed congress centre named after the
chemical element 110 DARMSTADTIUM, detected in nuclear fusion processes at GSI.
The EPDIC conference itself started on Friday the 28th of August by an opening speech of
Paolo Scardi, the chairman of the EPDIC committee. During the opening the EPDIC-Prize
for senior scientists has been awarded to Hugo Rietveld. This is a name well-known in
crystallography, especially powder diffraction. The "Rietveld method" has been introduced
about 45 years ago to refine neutron powder diffraction patterns by using the entire profile of
the scattered intensities, not only the integrated intensities. Rietveld was at that time working
at Petten at the neutron research centre in the Netherlands. The method has been extended in
the following years to X-ray patterns and proved its full potential with the many powder
stations at synchrotron facilities.
The EPDIC-Prize for young scientists was awarded the following day to Pavol Juhas (East
Lansing, USA) acknowledging his achievements in the development of new algorithms for
the structure investigation of nanomaterials, especially based on synchrotron data. A special
note by Robert Cernik was commemorating the late Lachlan Cranswick whose untimely
death became known during the conference.
Whereas about 250 participants were registered for EPDIC, additionally about 100 scientists
profited from both events. The state of the art in powder diffraction was represented by six
invited plenary talks. The subjects covered were on one side new developments in
instrumentation and methods and on the other new materials and their properties as studied
by powder diffraction. The organizers gave place to present many aspects of research at large
facilities (neutrons and synchrotron) in the program. The trend to harder and harder x-rays
χ European Powder Diffraction Conference, EPDIC 12
was covered by Harald Reichert from the ESRF (Grenoble, France) who explained the
upgrade of existing facilities and the move to more and more microfocus beam-lines.
Neutrons were presented by the director of the European Spallation Source (ESS) Colin
Carlile who described the present state of the facility that is going to be built in Lund
(Sweden). An overview of the instrumentation of the Japanese Spallation Source in
Tokaimura (KEK, Ibaraki, Japan) was given by Takashi Kamiyama. The combination of
powder diffraction with electron microscopy was demonstrated by Ute Kolb.
New materials for hydrogen storage based on borohydrides and metal organic frameworks
were the subject of talks by Torben Jensen (Aarhus, Denmark) and Nathalie Guillou
(Versailles, France). The treatment of nanocrystalline materials by Bogdan Palosz (Warsaw,
Poland) was both methodological and materials oriented. A talk by Helena van
Swygenhoven-Moens (Villingen, Switzerland) was dedicated to the investigation of
deformation mechanisms by in situ X-ray diffraction investigations.
The great variety of contributed papers in the microsymposia and posters is well represented
in the Proceedings. A first collection of the results of the conference was published in a
special issue of Zeitschrift für Kristallographie devoted to the plenary contributions and
selected keynotes from microsymposia (see Z. Kristallogr. 225 [12] (2010); open access).
All participants with active contributions to the conference (i.e. oral or poster presentations)
were invited to submit articles for the Proceedings. The editors Hartmut Fuess, Paolo Scardi
and Udo Welzel received 79 contributions. After peer-review and corrections a few papers
were finally not accepted, but 74 accepted articles give an excellent overview of the broad
field of powder diffraction from the study of stress/strain to the solution of the structure of
biological macromolecules.
The editors would like to thank Mrs Maritta Dudek from the Max Planck Institute for
Intelligent Systems (formerly Max Planck Institute for Metals Research) who organized the
technical aspects of editing and printing in close collaboration with Kristin Berber-Nerlinger
from the publisher.
We are grateful to all participants of EPDIC 12 and to all contributors to the Proceedings and
we are looking forward to EPDIC 13 in Grenoble in 2012.
Hartmut Fuess, May 2011, Darmstadt
Paolo Scardi, May 2011, Trento
Udo Welzel, May 2011, Stuttgart
