What is crystalline and Amorphous Material?

Microscopic Characterization
Category General
Difficulty Level Normal
Audience Level General
Description Microscopic characterization methods refer to scientific techniques Which allow determination of both composition and structure of a material. Optical microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and electron microscopy are known as microscopic techniques. This course illustrates how microscopic characterization techniques are used.
Overview
Microscopic methods play an essential role in nanomaterials characterization. Microscopic and X-ray based characterization of nanomaterials techniques are used for the determination of surface morphology and dispersion characteristics of nanomaterials. This course deals with details of these aspects, and will provide a fundamental understanding of morphological tools, such as instrumentation, sample preparation and different kinds of analyses, etc.


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Description
 In this section the crystalline/ amorphous material has been described. The arrangement of the atoms, ions and molecules of a material determines the type of structure and ultimately the properties of a material. Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. The atoms in crystals interact with X-ray waves in such a way as to produce interference.
Mental Challenge
 How the atoms and molecules of a solid arrange together?  
Quizzes and Activities

Activity: Describe the difference between the diamond, graphite, and soot atomic structure.

 
Further Reading Sources
 1. https://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens211/x-ray.htm  

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