Applications of Synchrotron Light to Scattering and Diffraction in Materials and Life Sciences

In a first approximation, certainly rough, one can define as non-crystalline materials those which are neither single-crystals nor poly-crystals. Within this category, we can included is ordered solids, soft condensed matter,andlivesystemsamong others. Contrary to crystals, non-crystalline materials have in common that their intrinsic structures cannot be exclusively described by a discrete and periodical function but by a continuous function with short range of order. Structurally these sy...