BCA Spring Meeting 2003 University of York Tuesday 15 March to Thursday 17 April 2003

Quantitative Phase Analysis is a very powerful X-ray diffraction analysis tool and is widely used in many industries from pharmaceuticals to cement. There is a range of methods from the comparison of peak intensities of different phases through to full profile fitting. Complexities of texture, micro-absorption and for some methods finding suitable pure phases for standards. This will lead on from the Phase Identification Workshop, i.e. now I know how to find what phases I have: what is proportion of each in my sample?

In conjunction with this session, an informal Round Robin on Quantitative Analysis competition is being held with two bottles of champagne for the best mineral and pharmaceutical results.

Detailed Programme

08:30 Jeremy Karl Cockcroft - Quantitative Analysis by the Rietveld Method

09:15 Chris Dallman - Quantitative Phase Analysis using Classical PXRD Methods

10:00 (Coffee and Exhibition)

10:30 Geoff Mitchell (Reading) - Quantitative Analysis with Amorphous Materials

11:00 Claire Anderton (GSK) - Quantitative Analysis by Spectroscopy

11:30 David Middleton (UMIST) - Quantitative Analysis by Solid State NMR

12:00 (Lunch)

13:30 Round Robin: Discussion of Inorganic Result

14:15 Round Robin: Discussion of Pharmaceutical Result