Issue 4, 2018

Improved multivariate analysis for fast and selective monitoring of structural dynamics by in situ X-ray powder diffraction

Abstract

The development of two solid-state reactions, Xe absorption into MFI and molecular complex formation, where samples are affected by changes of crystal lattice due to temperature or pressure variation was structurally monitored through in situ or in operando X-ray powder diffraction experiments. Consequent variations of the peak positions prevent collective analysis of measured patterns, aiming at investigating structural changes occurring within the crystal cell. Moreover, an intrinsic and variable error in peak position is unavoidable when using the Bragg–Brentano geometry and, in some cases (sticky, bulky, aggregate samples) the sample mounting can increase the error within a dataset. Here we present a general multivariate analysis method to process in a fast and automatic way in situ XRPD data collected on charge transfer complexes and porous materials, with the capacity of disentangling peak shifts from intensity and shape variations in diffraction signals, thus allowing an efficient separation of the contribution of crystal lattice changes from structural changes. The peak shift correction allowed an improved PCA analysis that turned out to be more sensible than the traditional single pattern Rietveld analysis. The developed algorithms allowed, with respect to the traditional approach, the location of two new Xe positions into MFI with a better interpretation of the experimental data, while a much faster and more efficient recovery of the reaction coordinate was achieved in the molecular complex formation reaction.

Graphical abstract: Improved multivariate analysis for fast and selective monitoring of structural dynamics by in situ X-ray powder diffraction

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Sep 2017
Accepted
24 Oct 2017
First published
26 Oct 2017

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018,20, 2175-2187

Improved multivariate analysis for fast and selective monitoring of structural dynamics by in situ X-ray powder diffraction

P. Guccione, L. Palin, M. Milanesio, B. D. Belviso and R. Caliandro, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 2175 DOI: 10.1039/C7CP06326A

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