Version 2: The best Match! you have ever seen!

In late summer 2010, the next version of Match!, our software for phase identification from powder, will become available. It will of course run on Windows like version 1, and also on Mac OS X and Linux. Here is a screenshot taken on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Version 10.5.8 (Leopard):

As you see, the user interface has been revised completely: It now provides an intuitive and instant usage of restraints and additional information (on the upper right-hand side), as well as a separate table for selected phases on the lower right-hand side. In addition, it is now possible to display multiple experimental diffraction patterns on top of each other, as you can see on the upper left-hand side.

Here is a list of the most outstanding improvements:

• Runs on Mac, Linux and of course Windows
  No matter which one of these operating systems you prefer, Match! will run on it. Of course, you can use document files created with Match! on one platform on any other platform as well.
• Support for multiple diffraction patterns
  Additional experimental patterns can now be imported and displayed on top of each other, so that you can compare them to the main experimental pattern.
• Extremely comfortable handling of restraints as well as manually added entries
  You know that one or the other element must be present in the matching phases? Excellent, just click on the corresponding button(s) in the periodic table on the upper right-hand side; Match! will instantly use this additional information.
  You would like to check how a certain compound compares to the experimental diffraction pattern? No problem, simply type the name (or fragment) of the compound; Match! will add the corresponding entries to the Results list straight away.
• Comfortable retrieval from the database
  Match! now uses the same "perpetual restrainting" mechanism that you may already know from Pearson's Crystal Data: While entering your selection criteria, any modification will instantly be reflected e.g. in the table of resulting entries and the entry count.
• Saving/Loading of restraints/additional entries settings
  Once you have entered a set of selection criteria (e.g. elements, density etc.) that best suits your requirements, you can save it using an appropriate name, and recall it later on with just two mouse clicks.
• Improved automatics (e.g. automatic selection of multiple matching phases)
  You are a beginner or an expert user? As you like it: Simply adjust your skill level, in order to either give you full control at each single step, let Match! run the complete phase identification automatically, or anything in between.
• Rietveld refinement using FullProf
  With just two mouse clicks, you can easily transfer your data (e.g. resulting from a phase identification) to the FullProf software and run a Rietveld refinement.
  This feature will probably not be present yet in the very first version 2.0 but in a later version 2.x.

As usual, customers who purchase the current version within 6 months before the release of version 2 will be entitled to update free-of-charge. Customers who already use the current version will be offered an update to the new version at significantly reduced price.