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The role played by the MEM/Rietveld method, which is a combination of the maximum-entropy method (MEM) and Rietveld analysis, for charge-density studies is described in the structural materials science of novel nano-materials. The atoms' and molecules' charge densities inside the nano-scale spaces of fullerene cages and metal-organic coordination polymers are visualized by using synchrotron-radiation powder data.