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Revisiting Powder X-ray Diffraction Technique: A Powerful Tool to Characterize Polymers and their Composite Films

Nithin Kundachira Subramani

Polymers and their hybrid composites are of significant interest to material scientists, owing to fascinating end product applications. The ever increasing demand for polymer based composite systems has imposed the scientific community to design, develop and characterize novel hybrid composites for advanced material applications. Thus, advanced characterization tools are in great demand for material research. Powder X-Ray Diffraction (P-XRD) is one such characterization tool that offers the advantage of simultaneously characterizing both the precursor and end products with a detailed qualitative presentation of their micro-structural behaviours. Herein, we revisit P-XRD as a powerful tool to characterize polymers and their composite films with appropriate literature evidence.