Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The EPDIC-5 Proceedings present the latest papers in this successful series of European Conferences on Powder Diffraction. They demonstrate the evergrowing interest from materials scientists, physicists, chemists, geologists - both industrial and academic- all having a direct interest in the practical application of this powerful and non-destructive method of analysis. Part 1 comprises some 75 contributions, with sections on Methodological Developments, Development of Instruments and Techniques, Software, Synchrotron and Neutron Diffraction describing the latest ideas in these fields. Subjects such as Microstructure of Materials, Texture, Quantitative Phase Analysis and Crystal Structure Determination are also addressed; as in previous editions of these conference proceedings. An important step forward in materials analysis is now occurring: scientists and engineers are becoming more and more conscious of the fact that, by using these techniques, it is possible to obtain quantitative information from the same set of measurements, of material characteristics, that determine material properties. This advance has been made possible thanks to recent instrumental developments, such as the X-ray lens -a bundle of glass capillaries- and single or double X-ray mirrors. A very useful tool, that is extensively applied -as described in a sequence of some 15 contributions-, is the in-situ (i.e. time resolved) powder diffraction technique which has resulted from the ample availability of position sensitive detectors.

X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Highly-Condensed Matter Solution of Flexible Structures from Powder Diffraction Data Using a Simulated Annealing Technique Weighting Scheme for the Minimization Function in Rietveld Refinement and the Accuracy of Structural Parameters Phasing Crystal Structures from Powder Data: About the Use of the Harker Sections Crystal Structure Solution from Powder Diffraction Data by the Monte Carlo Method The Influence of User-Selected Models on the Results of the Rietveld Refinement of the LaOCl Structure Structure Solution from Powder Diffraction Data: Improvement of the Variances of the Extracted Integrated Intensities A New Method for High Accuracy QPA on Highly Textured Samples Mean-Normalised-Intensity (MNI) Method for X-Ray Powder Diffraction Phase Composition Analysis External Standard Method in Quantitative Analysis of Bimetallic Clusters (Supported Catalysts) Avoiding Surface and Absorption Effects in XRD Quantitative Phase Analysis Calculated Curves for Quantitative Powder Diffraction Analysis in Binary Mixtures, Based on Calculated Diffractograms by the Rietveld Method Quantitative Analysis of Silicate Glass in Ceramic Materials by the Rietveld Method The Full-Pattern Reference Intensity Ratio Method in Quantitative Phase Analysis On the Generalized Debye Scattering Equation Simultaneous Analysis of the Small- and Wide-Angle Scattering from Nanometric SiC Based on the ab initio Pattern Simulation Powder Diffraction of Small Palladium Crystallites Profile Analysis in Asymmetric Powder Diffraction with Parallel Beam Geometry and Curved Position Sensitive Detector Mg3IrH~5, Another Example of Hydrogen Induced Anisotropic Line Broadening Due to Microtwinning Adaptation of the Rietveld Method to the Characterization of the Lamellar Microstructure of Polymers Structural Studies of Bulk Pyrocarbons by Oriented Powder Methods (Experiment and Modelisation) XRD Profile Analysis of Clay Minerals A Method to Determine the Volume Fraction of a Separate Component in a Diffracting Volume Strain Broadening Caused by Dislocations Multilayer Structures: A Comparison of Results from XRD and from Structure Imaging Techniques New Possibilities of X-Ray Diffraction Methods in Structure Investigations of Multilayer Materials Use of Sliding-Window Fourier Transform in the Analysis of X-Ray Reflectivity Data A Computer Program for Structural Refinement from Thin Film XRD Patterns Texture Models in Powder Diffraction Analysis Implications of Texture on Powder Diffraction - Three-Dimensional Powder Diffraction - Mapping in Real and Reciprocal Space A New Approach for Getting Refined X-Ray Diffraction Patterns by Using X-Ray Diffractometers with Energy Resolving Detectors X-Ray Optics for Materials Research Multifiber Polycapillary Collimator for X-Ray Powder Diffraction Measurements in Parallel-Beam Geometry Achieved by a Goebel Mirror at a Laboratory Source High Temperature X-Ray Diffraction: Uncertainties in Temperature Measurement and Intensity Limitations Temperature Distribution at the Sample Surface in High-Temperature XRD Using Infrared Thermography A New High-Temperature Furnace Chamber In Situ Heat Treatment Structural Studies with Curved Detector In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Analyses of Catalytic Reactions and Moderate-Pressure Geological Processes Standard Reference Materials for the Measurement of Instrument Resolution Functions: Effect of Transparency Toward EXPO: From the Powder Pattern to the Crystal Structure Solving Crystal Structures from Powder Data: The Use of a Molecular Fragment Crystal Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data by the Application of a Genetic Algorithm Rietveld Analysis of Disordered Layer Silicates ZONE - A Program for Analysis of Brillouin Zone Configuration The Use of Brilliance in Powder Diffraction: Towards High Resolution Kinetic Studies Development of Curved Image-Plate Techniques for Studies of Powder Diffraction, Liquids and Amorphous Materials High Resolution Synchrotron Strain Scanning at BM16 at the ESRF Analysis of Plastic Deformation with Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Diffraction: Application to Deformation with a Diamond Anvil Cell In situ X-Ray Diffraction Method to Study Natural Gas Hydrates Recent Developments in Powder Diffraction Using Pulsed Neutrons The Application of Dynamic Characterization to the Melt Texturing of YBa2Cu3O7- The Use of in-situ Powder Diffraction in the Study of Intercalation and Hydrothermal Reaction Kinetics Kinetic Study of Conventional Solid-State Synthesis of BaTiO3 by in situ HT-XRD Thermal Expansion of C3S and Mg-Doped Alite Thermal Expansion of Chromites and Zinc Spinels Phase Transition of Iron Oxide at High Temperature Time-and Temperature Resolved X-Ray Diffraction: The Nitridation of a Mixture Nb2O5/Fe2O3 with Ammonia An in situ Diffraction Study of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System Hydrothermal Transformation of Microporous Lithium Zinc Phosphates: A Kinetic Study Using in situ Synchrotron Radiation Powder Diffraction Kinetics of Hydrothermal Synthesis of Li-A(BW) from Metakaolinite by Time Resolved Synchrotron Diffraction Dehydroxylation Kinetics of Muscovite-2M1 Time and Temperature Resolved Studies of Crystallisation of Polymers with Rapid X-Ray Diffraction Crystalline and Amorphous States in Alloys Zn-Sb and Cd-Sb under High Pressure High Temperature Grazing Incidence Studies on Aluminium Films High Temperature X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Phase Formation Process of Iridium Silicide Thin Films Application of the Distorted-Wave Born Approximation to Interface Characterization in W/Si Multilayer Thin Films Microstructural Characterization of Nanocrystalline Thin Films by Grazing Incidence Diffraction: Au and Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe2 (Terfenol-D) Structure of Reactively Sputtered Ta-N-O Films Effects of Oxygen Stoichiometry on the Structural Properties of W-Ti-O Thin Films X-Ray Diffraction Measurements on c-Axis Oriented YBaCuO Thin Films Deposited by Metalorganic Vapour Deposition Modification of Crystllinity in Poly (Vinylalcohol) Derivatives The Crystallinity of the Copolymers Based on Acrylic Monomers and Lignosulphonates Structural Studies of Submicron Grained Copper, Germanium and Silicon On the Longtime Stability of a Copper Rolling Texture Analysed by Neutron Diffraction Pole Figures Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Measurements of Residual Stresses in a Shape Welded Steel Tube Neutron Diffraction Applied to the Study of Microstructure and Texture of Industrial Magnetic Alnico Material Structural Changes in High Velocity Oxy-Fuel Sprayed Cr3C2/NiCr 75/25 Coatings after Annealing Treatments A Systematic Structural Study, Interpretation and Prediciton of Physical Properties for the Hard Magnetic Intermetallic Coumpound RE3T29, Based on Structure-Superstructure Relations ... Site Exchange in Hexagonal Ce(Ni,Cu)6 Intermetallics Time-of-Flight Neutron Powder Diffraction Investigation of Tb2Co17-xGax Permanent Magnet Materials Structural Characteristics of Rare Earth (R = Tb, Ho, Er) Ternary Magnetic Intermetallics RFexAl12-x with Iron Concentrations x = 6 Magnetic Structure of Tb Substituted LaMn2Si2 Intermetallics Competing Magnetic Interactions in La0.8Y0.2Mn2Si2 X-Ray Diffraction Study of Nanocrystalline Phases Formation in Metallic Systems Moessbauer Study of Fe-Powder Mechanically Alloyed by N and C Mechanism of Pseudo-Boehmite Dehydration: Influence of Reagent Structure and Reaction Kinetics on the Transformation Sequence Phase Selective Chemical Analysis of Multi-Component Solids by X-Ray Powder Diffraction: On the Composition of -Cordierit-Like Solid Solutions Crystallizing from Non-Stoichiometric Glasses X-Ray Powder Diffraction Study on the Solubility Limits in the Goethite-Diaspore Solid Solutions X-Ray Powder Diffraction Study of Solids in the CaO-Al2O3-B2O3 System Cation Distribution in Ferrites with Spinel Structure Measured by Anomalous Powder Diffraction Temperature Dependence of the Alpha-Galliumphosphate Structure Characterization of Sol-Gel Nanoparticles of Magnetoresistive La0.67Ca0.33MnO3+ Evolution of Disordering in SiC under High Pressure High Temperature Conditions: In-situ Powder Diffraction Study Order-Disorder Structure Formation and Distribution of Lithium Ions in the LiMn2O4/LiFe5O8 Spinel Solid Solutions XRPD Analysis of Stable and Metastable Magnesium Titanate Phases XRPD Characterization of Manganese Dioxide for Electrochemical Applications X-Ray Diffraction Investigation on MoS2 Nanoparticles Produced by CO2 Laser Assisted Synthesis Crystal Structures and cis trans Transformation in [Pd(NH3)2HaI2] X-Ray Powder Diffraction of the Strontium Nitroprusside Tetrahydrate at Different Temperatures under 300K: Sample Evolution to a Mixed (Tetra, Di, Mono)-Hydrate Phase Microstructural Properties of Ta-Doped TiO2 Powders Obtained by Laser Pyrolysis Structural Characterization of Vanadiumphosphate Catalysts Generated under Ammoxidation Conditions In situ Studies of the Dehydration of Edingtonite and Brewsterite X-Ray Powder Diffraction Study on the Hydrothermally Obtained Zinc-Manganese Ferrites Rietveld Refinement of Two-Phase Zr-Doped Y2O3 Cation Deficiency in Ordered-Vacancy Ternary Sulfides Cation Partitioning in Mg0.70Fe0.23Al1.97O4 Synthetic Spinels by in situ Neutron Powder Diffraction Structure Determination of Al0.67Fe0.33PO4: An Example of Convergence of X-Ray Diffraction and Moessbauer Spectroscopy Results Ab initio Structure Analysis of VO(HPO4) Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of Fe2OBO3 The Structure of RhMO4, M = Nb, Ta, and Sb The Structure of Orthorhombic Hafniates by Neutron Powder Diffraction and Perturbed-Angular-Correlation Spectroscopy (PAC) Structural Study of the Proton Conductor Cs3H(SeO4)2 by High Resolution Neutron Powder Diffraction Neutron Diffraction Study of Frozen Fe(ClO4)2 Solutions Neutron Diffraction Studies of AMnO3 Perovskites Powder Neutron Diffraction Studies of a New Ferrimagnetic Manganese Oxide with a Layered Perovskite Structure: YBaMn2O5 The Cu(II)O4 Tetrahedron in the Akermanite Structure Crystal Structure of Nd4Cu2O7 Structure and Bonding in Bi2Sn2O7 Structural Aspects of Ferroelectric Phase Transitions in the Complex Metal Oxides A2Sb2O7 (A = Pb, Sr, Ca) with Weberite Structure Structure Determination and Rietveld Refinement of La(Mg0.5Ti0.5)O3 Synchrotron and Conventional X-Ray Rietveld Study of Clouded Plagioclase from Southern Sweden Discovery of New Minerals Zlatogorite, Turkestanite and Belovite-(La) by Rietveld Refinement from X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data Structure Analysis of Intercalated Clays Using Combination of Molecular Simulations, Powder Diffraction and IR Spectroscopy XRPD Study on Cation Location in Na-Rb-Y Zeolite at the ESRF under Carefully Controlled Atmospheres: Vacuum, H2O, NH3 Structure Determination by Neutron Diffraction on Dehydrated Li-SX Zeolite: Evidence for a Low-Temperature Orthorhombic Faujasite XRD Study of the Stacking Mode in Natural and Hydrated Nacrite Structural Refinements of Strontium Substituted Hydroxylapatites Structure-Microstructure Relationships in LiMn2O4 Spinel Phase X-Ray Diffraction Study of Amorphous Zr-Fe-O System Quantitative Determination of Crystalline and Amorphous Phase in Traditional Ceramics by Combined Rietveld-RIR Method Quantitative Phase Analysis of Kaolinite / Quartz Mixtures - Statistical Evaluation of Different Sample Preparation Techniques - The Role of Powder X-Ray Diffraction in the Cement Industry: Recent Advances and Future Developments Chemical Analysis via Non Destructive XRPD on "Green Stone" Artifacts Neutron Diffraction Investigation of Effects Induced in Materials by High-Current Pulsed Electron Beam Irradiation Nanocrystalline Structure of the Metastable Ball-Milled Inverse Spinel-Ferrites Quantitative Analysis of XRD and SAXS Patterns: Determination of the Mineralogy and Microstructure of Ca-Interstratified Clays X-Ray Powder Structural and Microstructural Study of Nanocrystalline Copper Oxide Microstructural Study of Nanocrystalline CeO2 by X-Ray Powder Diffraction and High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Allowance for Anisotropic Line Broadening in the Crystal Structure Solution of [Pd(NH3)4][Pd(C2O4)2] Structural Characterization of Cu Metallic Clusters in Amorphous SiO2 by Synchrotron Radiation Grazing Incidence X-Ray Scattering and Diffraction The Molecular Goldsmith: From Silver Threads to Silver Rings Crystalchemistry of Organic Sulfonates Used as Cement Additives Powder Diffraction Data for Some Salts of Aconitic Acid Studies of the Crystalline Forms of Bis(Glycinato)Copper(II) Anisotropy of the Intermolecular Interactions from the Study of the Thermal-Expansion Tensor Lamellar Disorder in n-Alkanes and Their Binary Mixtures Studied by X-Ray Powder Diffraction