| Description | | - First comprehensive book on the crystallography of modular materials.
- Provides a unified treatment of results scattered across different journals and original papers.
- Illustrates theoretical aspects with examples.
- Offers a standard for definitions and nomenclature.
- Presents frontier applications in materials science.
| | This is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of theories and applications in the rapidly expanding field of the crystallography of modular materials. Molecules are the natural modules from which molecular crystalline structures are built. Most inorganic structures, however, are infinite arrays of atoms and some kinds of surrogate modules, e.g. co-ordination polyhedra, are usually
used to describe them. In recent years the attention has been focused on complex modules as the basis for a systematic description of polytypes and homologous/polysomatic series (modular structures). This representation is applied to the modelling of unknown structures and understanding nanoscale defects and intergrowths in materials. The Order/Disorder (OD) theory is fundamental to developing a
systematic theory of polytypism, dealing with those structures based on both ordered and disordered stacking of one or more layers. Twinning at both unit-cell and micro-scale, together with disorder, causes many problems, "demons", for computer-based methods of crystal structure determination. This book develops the theory of twinning with the inclusion of worked examples, converting the "demons"
into useful indicators for unravelling crystal structure. In spite of the increasing use of the concepts of modular crystallography for characterising, understanding and tailoring technological crystalline materials, this is the first book to offer a unified treatment of the results, which are spread across many different journals and original papers published over the last twenty years. |
Readership: Postgraduate students and research scientists working in the field of Crystallography, Structural Chemistry (or Solid State Chemistry) and Materials Science
| Contents |
1.
Modular series - principles and types
2.
Ordered derivative structures
3.
Polytypes and polytype categories
4.
Application of modularity to structure description and modelling
5.
Modularity at crystal scale - twinning
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Giovanni Ferraris, Faculty of Mathematical Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Turin, Italy,
Emil Makovicky, Mineralogy Department of the Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and
Stefano Merlino, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
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