Parametric Rietveld refinement of coexisting disordered clay minerals

  • Ufer K
  • Kleeberg R
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X-ray diffraction is one of the most effective tools for the characterization of the stacking defects which occur frequently in clay minerals. Modelling of the diffraction patterns of oriented mounts is often used for obtaining structural information about the nature of stacking order. Manual matching of calculated and observed patterns is time consuming and the results are user dependent and especially troublesome if a consistent model of the same mineral measured under different conditions needs to be obtained. It was shown recently that the Rietveld method could be applied successfully for the evaluation of the X-ray patterns of oriented mounts. Nevertheless, this automatic refinement procedure can also lead to inconsistent results if independent refinements are performed that describe the same sample measured under different conditions. One way to solve this problem is the application of parametric Rietveld refinement. For this approach a set of different measurements of the same sample was collected and fitted in one combined refinement by the connection of the structural models via external parameters. These conditions may involve different pre-treatments (e.g. different intercalations), different temperatures or relative humidities and/or different experimental setup (powder or oriented samples). All patterns were fitted in one overall refinement process by the BGMN software.This approach was demonstrated on a mixture of two disordered reference materials and on a set of geological samples. Two different states for each sample were refined independently and parametrically and it was shown that this approach leads to consistent results, saves computation time and may even resolve small structural differences.

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Ufer, K., & Kleeberg, R. (2015). Parametric Rietveld refinement of coexisting disordered clay minerals. Clay Minerals, 50(3), 287–296. https://doi.org/10.1180/claymin.2015.050.3.03

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