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Special section on selected papers from the 9th Chinese National Conference on X-ray Diffraction and ICDD Workshop

Four years ago, Dr. Ting C. Huang, Editor-in-Chief of Powder Diffraction, attended the 8th Chinese National Conference on X-ray Diffraction. He was very impressed with the technical results and quality of the papers and suggested that selected papers presented at the conference be published in Powder Diffraction. This led to a special section with seven selected papers in the December 2004 issue of Powder Diffraction. Last year, the 9th Chinese National Conference on X-ray Diffraction and ICDD Workshop was held in Hangzhou, China from October 15 to 17, 2006, with one full day devoted to the ICDD Workshop in a general session. The conference was sponsored by the Chinese Commission on Powder Diffraction, the Chinese Society of Crystallography, the Chinese Commission on X-ray Diffraction, the Chinese Society of Physics, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Beijing Ceramic Society, and ICDD, and the local organizer was Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. Over 270 participants attended from universities, institutions, industry, and XRD vendors across China, Japan, India, the Netherlands, and the United States—a 60% increase in attendance over the previous conference. Five invited keynote lectures, five plenary presentations from XRD instrumentation manufacturers, and 60 oral presentations covering fundamental research, experimental techniques, structure determination, and applications in XRD were given. Dr. Huang gave an invited talk and was also