Applications

Koala will be useful for:

Development and study of new pharmaceuticals - through diffraction studies of potential drug candidates
Modern synthetic chemistry research - using diffraction studies to fully determine specific interatomic interactions of new chemicals
Advanced materials research - to identify materials and to examine subtly different formulations at the interatomic scale
Minerals research - understanding of the structure of new phases and the effect of the different phases on processing conditions
Distinguishing between iso-electronic species (eg. K⁺, Cl^- or elements near each other in the periodic table)