Crystallite alignment

Figure 5. Replica of platinum shadowed, fractured, (010) hydrogen-bonded surface showing chain folded crystallites aligned with their molecular axis along the draw direction arrowed...

In the present context the shift of the observed (h k 0)-reflexes in equatorial direction (perpendicular to tensile direction) display the transversal crystalline strain of the crystallites aligned in tensile direction... 

X-ray pole figure analysis was employed to evaluate crystallite alignment in the out-of-plane and in-plane direction. In previous study we used X-ray diffractometry [7,8], by using an X-ray diffractometer (PANalytical X-Pert Pro MRD). This measurement gives quantitative information on the crystallite... 

One reason for the anisotropic wave velocity in the radial - tangential plane, where few HAp crystallites align, seems to come from the microstmcture. The anterior part of bovine cortical bone has plexiform stmcture, which is formed from bricklike bone lamellae sandwiched with vascular plexuses and grows parallel to the outer bone surface. 

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