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In situ total scattering measurements are increasingly utilized to follow atomic and nanoscale structural details of phase transitions and other transient processes in materials. This contribution presents an automated method and associated tool set to analyze series of diffraction and pair distribution function data with a linear combination of end-member states. It is demonstrated that the combinatorial appraisal of transition states (CATS) software tracks phase changes, relative phase fractions and length scales of interest in experimental data series. It is further demonstrated, using a series of local structure data simulations, that the misfit of such a model can reveal details of phase aggregation and growth related to the pair distribution function's sensitivity to interphase correlations. CATS may be applied to quantitative evaluation of many transient processes, including amorphous-to-crystalline phase transitions, the evolution of solid-solution behaviors, the precipitation and growth of aggregates, and other atomic to nanoscale details of crystallization and phase transformation phenomena.

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Comparison of CATS with principal component analysis and comparison of CATS models with data


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