Alan H. wrote :
>Yes our machines are largely automatic, but our people don't have
>much spare time for running Armel's samples if he can't come himself,
>especially since half our scientists are on fixed term contracts and
>looking for their next job.
Anyway, I have scarcely a sample of my own. I belong to the
category having some power for characterizing samples from
other people (the "fishing sample physicists"). The problem is
that everybody believe to be able to run a Rietveld refinement
or even to solve a structure from powder diffraction data, nowadays.
So that I get only the hyper-super-hard-complex-impossible
problems. Probably the same for half of the Rietveld mailing list
subscribers ! Not enough interesting samples and too much people
willing to get them, including the chemist itself that hope to
characterize his own sample alone ;-).
Perhaps it is timely for doing something else ?-) or using an
automatic publication writing system that should complete
any automatic diffractometer.
Best,
Armel Le Bail - Universite du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/
