PowBase
Powder Patterns Database

The project started readily after a suggestion was given by Helio Salim de Amorim at the SDPD mailing list (mail 155) :

Subject: a suggestion...
From: Helio Salim de Amorim
Date: November 3, 1999

Dear Dr. Armel and SDPD members.

Still as to regards the e-mail about fees of SDPD Internet Course and some natural difficulties of students in poor countries, I should like to direct a suggestion: besides the mailing list on SDPD and the course for free available in the Web, could be very useful to create a powder diffraction data base in the Web, with data given up by different laboratories/researchers related to different materials, obtained in different instrumental resolution and useful to training in the application of SDPD strategies. Data with typical resolution attained in a powder diffractometer installed in synchrotron beam lines for example, many of us, know only in the literature. This data base should be also good to planning the upgrade of x-ray diffraction equipment and to establish collaboration between laboratories.

My best regards.

Helio Salim de Amorim.
(e-mail: hsali-@goldennet.com.br / hsali-@if.ufrj.br)
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Instituto de Física.
Laboratório de Cristalografia e Raio-x.
Rio de Janeiro-Brazil.

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