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Abstract
The XRD pattern of hydromaghemite, previously interpreted as a mixture of hydroxylated maghemite, ferrihydrite, and hematite (Barrón et al. 2003; Liu 2008), has been reinterpreted as being from a new form of ferrihydrite called “ferrimagnetic ferrihydrite” (ferrifh, Michel et al. 2010; Barrón et al. 2012). Although ferrihydrite sensu stricto and ferrifh have distinct XRD patterns, their profiles have been fit with the same akdalaite-type model using atomic pair distribution (PDF) analysis (Michel et al. 2007, 2010). This ambivalence shows that the crystal structure problem is ill-conditioned, as often the case for the study of nanostructured materials by PDF (Billinge and Levin 2007).
Received: 2011-7-18
Accepted: 2011-8-2
Published Online: 2015-4-2
Published in Print: 2012-1-1
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