# Understanding diffraction from disordered materials: toward the analysis beyond the intermediate-range order

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2026-07-15T23:40:56.254659Z

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https://doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2026.2689901

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2026-12-31

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2026-12-31

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## Title

- title: 'Understanding diffraction from disordered materials: toward the analysis
    beyond the intermediate-range order'
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  lang: en

## Description

- description: Understanding structure of non-crystalline materials is still challenging
    topic in physics due to the inherent nature of disorder in non-crystalline materials.
    Diffraction is a powerful measure to reveal atomic structure of crystalline materials
    because of well-defined theory of crystallography developed on the basis of the
    understanding of Bragg peaks observed in diffraction data. However, diffraction
    patterns of non-crystalline materials exhibit so called halo pattern owing to
    inherent disorder in atomic arrangement. The use of pair distribution function
    obtained from a Fourier transform of normalized diffraction data provides short-range
    structure in terms of atomic distance and coordination number. The atomic structure
    beyond the short-range structure, so called intermediate (medium)-range order
    has been widely studied by X-ray and neutron diffraction measurements from the
    late 1980s. In particular, the advent of advanced quantum beam facilities in the
    late last century provides high-flux synchrotron X-rays and neutrons to reveal
    the intermediate-range structure of non-crystalline materials by understanding
    of diffraction peaks aided by the advanced computer simulation techniques. In
    this article, we review recent advances in our studies [8–10] and address a future
    direction to understand the atomic structure of non-crystalline materials beyond
    the intermediate-range order.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: und

## Creator

- name: Shinji Kohara
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9596-2680
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science

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organization: Informa UK Limited

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- subject: glass
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- subject: structure
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- subject: diffraction
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- subject: intermediate-range order
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- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  date_licensed: 2026-07-02

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## Journal

- title: 'Advances in Physics: X'
  issn: '23746149'
  volume: '11'
  issue: '1'
  article_number: '2689901'

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