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Defogging the view through a milling jar

Innovations in instrumentation together with new strategies of data collection and processing have been shown to solve the problem of data quality for time-resolved in situ X-ray diffraction studies on ball milling, opening new horizons in mechanochemistry.

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Fig. 1: Experimental set-up for time-resolved in situ X-ray powder diffraction of a ball milling experiment.

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Boldyreva, E. Defogging the view through a milling jar. Nat. Chem. 14, 10–12 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00862-4

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