Dear GSAS II community,

I have questions concerning data processing and interpretation with GSAS II. 
May data concerns in-situ neutron diffraction were I load and unload a sample 
with hydrogen.
Due to the hydrogen I have a lot of background and this brings me to my 
question concerning data interpretation:


*       My data residual wR is very low, about 1%. However, this does not say 
much about the fitting quality as I have a lot of background. Also the 
unweighted phase residuals RF2 and RF are displayed. Do these values also 
include the background? And if yes, is there an option to subtract the 
background implemented in GSAS II?

The second question concerns data processing. My background is changing with 
hydrogen content and using the sequential refinement tool is very convenient to 
fit the background. However, as far as I understand, atom fractions inside unit 
cells cannot be fitted with sequential refinement (modelling hydrogen content 
during loading and unloading). In order to model the hydrogen content I guess I 
need to add to each histogram a separate hydrogen containing phase. Then 
constraints would allow to e.g. link the UC dimensions of these phases while 
fitting the hydrogen content individually should be possible, right? Would 
there be other options for data processing?

I am looking forward to hearing from you, thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Bernhard Weninger
PhD candidate

TU Delft / Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (MECS)
Faculty of Applied Sciences, dept. of Chemical Engineering
Van der Maasweg 9
2629 HZ Delft
T +31 (0)15 278 2676
M +31 (0)6 3700 6605
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