The audience for this thorough overview includes advanced undergraduates and postgraduate researchers in macromolecular sciences who can benefit from more familiarity with the use of X-ray diffraction for obtaining structural information on biological substances, natural and synthetic high polymeric materials. X-Ray Diffraction by Macromolecules comprises three parts: fundamental, experimental and analytical, and the volume as a whole may serve as an intermediate textbook to bridge the treatments found in primers and specialist works. It presents a thorough treatment of principles and applications, and gives full, practical details on experimental methods and the treatment of results, along with many examples of actual analysis.

Experiment
Natur
Polymer characterization
X-ray diffraction
X-ray scattering
X-ray small-angle scattering
crystal
diffraction
distribution
materials science
molecule
polymer
scattering

• Front Matter
• Fundamental
  Front Matter
• Essential Properties of X-Rays
• X-Ray Scattering, Interference and Diffraction
• Crystal Structure
• Detailed Interpretation of the Diffraction of X-Rays by Crystals
• Diffraction of X-Rays by Imperfect Crystals and Paracrystals
• Scattering of X-Rays by Very Small Bodies
• Structure of High Polymeric Substances
• Experimental
  Front Matter
• Experimental Methods
• Analytical
  Front Matter
• Identification of Crystals by X-Ray Diffraction
• Analysis of Crystallite Orientation
• Crystal Structure Analysis of High Polymers
• Crystal Structure Determination of Macromolecules
• Analysis of the Breadth and Shape of Diffraction Patterns
• Analyses Using the Total Diffraction Intensity Distribution Curves of High Polymers
• Analysis of X-ray Small-angle Scattering
• Back Matter

Osaka University, Osaka
Nobutami Kasai, Masao Kakudo

Kobe Women’s University, Kobe
Nobutami Kasai

Himeji Institute of Technology, Himeji
Masao Kakudo

Book Title
X-Ray Diffraction by Macromolecules

Authors
Nobutami Kasai, Masao Kakudo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28353-6

Series ISSN
0172-6218

Series E-ISSN
2364-9003

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XVI, 504

Number of Illustrations
351 b/w illustrations

Additional Information
Jointly published with Kodansha Scientific, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Topics
Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Physical Chemistry, Engineering, general