[Protein-crystallography] IUCr Commission on Powder Diffraction Newsletter now available on-line

[Lachlan Cranswick]

The latest IUCr Commission on Powder Diffraction (CPD) Newsletter is
available on-line via the CPD webpage as an Adobe Acrobat file at:

Direct link to PDF:
  http://www.fkf.mpg.de/cpd/cpd30.pdf

This issue has the theme of Powder Diffraction on Mars, the Red Planet
  - Rob Delhez, Editor

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The Table of Contents follow:

Powder Diffraction goes into Space:

  X-ray Powder Diffraction on the Red Planet
       - Arno Wielders and Rob Delhez

  Mars-XRD: the X-ray Diffractometer for Rock and Soil Analysis on
   Mars in 2011
       -  Rob Delhez, Lucia Marinangeli and Sjerry van der Gaast

  Charge coupled devices as X-ray detectors for XRD/XRF
       - N. Nelms, I. Hutchinson, A. Holland

Pharmaceuticals:

 Coupling the PDF-4/Organics Relational Database to SIeve+, a Hanawalt
   and Fink Search Indexing Plug-In
       - J. Faber, J. Blanton and C. A. Weth

  Formulation analyses of off-the-shelf pharmaceuticals
       - T.C. Fawcett and J. Faber

  Crystal structure of guaifenesin,
3-(2-methoxyphenoxy)-1,2-propanediol
       - James A. Kaduk

Results of the second Reynolds Cup contest in quantitative mineral
  analysis  -  Reinhardt Kleeberg

Conference Report:
One day Size/Strain and Quantitative Phase Analysis Software Workshop
02.09.04,
Prague, Czech Republic
       - Tim Hyde

Computer Corner:

  Nano: a software for quantitative analysis of nanoparticles by X-ray
  diffraction powder data Antonio Cervellino, Cinzia Giannini and
       - Antonietta Guagliardi

  PowDLL: a reusable .NET component for interconverting powder
  diffraction data
       - Nikolaos Kourkoumelis

  New Versions of DRAWxtl, a Program for Crystal Structure Display
       - Larry W. Finger and Martin Kroeker

  XtalDraw for Windows
       - Robert T. Downs

  STRUPLO 2004: A new version of the structure drawing program
       - Reinhard X. Fischer and Thomas Messner

  PDFgetX2: a user-friendly program to obtain the pair distribution
  function from X-ray powder diffraction data
       - Xiangyun Qiu and Simon J. L. Billinge

  BRASS, the Bremen Rietveld Analysis and Structure Suite
       - Johannes Birkenstock, Reinhard X. Fischer and Thomas Messner

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