Recent X-ray diffraction theory for the structural analysis of carbon material and the next-generation perspective

The diffraction profile of carbon materials has been quantitavely analyzed by many researchers for more than fifty years and the structural parameters such as lattice constants, crystallite sizes, graphitizability and Debye-Waller factor have been proposed together with their estimation method. In the present article, the conventional method ever proposed are reviewed and the next-generation analytical theory of carbon structure will be overviewed.