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| Reviews |
| - 'Good and timely.' - Marjorie Senechal, Department of Mathematics and Science and Technology, Smith College, USA
- 'There is a need for a self-contained book on the structure analysis of incommensurate crystals. Potential readers of such a book would be all who are involved in structure analysis of aperiodic crystals plus solid state chemists and physicists.' - Walter Steurer, Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zurich
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| Description | | - First textbook dealing with crystallography of incommensurately modulated crystals and incommensurate composite crystals.
- Provides a comprehensive account of the superspace theory - necessary background for the understanding of incommensurability in crystal structures.
- Includes a complete account of crystallographic methods of structural analysis of incommensurate crystals.
- Important applications in the study of materials like high-temperature superconductors, low-dimensional electronic crystals, charge-density wave compounds, magnetic materials and ferroelectrics.
| | For many years it was believed that translational symmetry would be the fundamental property of crystal structures of natural and synthetic compounds. It is now recognised that many compounds crystallise without translational symmetry of their atomic structures. "Incommensurate Crystallography" gives a comprehensive account of the superspace theory for the description of crystal structures and
symmetries of these incommensurately modulated crystals and incommensurate composite crystals. It thus provides the necessary background for quantitative analysis of incommensurate crystals by methods in Solid State Chemistry and Solid State Physics. The second half of "Incommensurate Crystallography" is devoted to crystallographic methods of structural analysis of incommensurate compounds.
Thorough accounts are given of the diffraction by incommensurate crystals, the choice of parameters in structure refinements, and the use of superspace in analysing crystal structures. The presentation of methods of structure determination includes modern methods like the Maximum Entropy Method and Charge Flipping. |
Readership: Graduate and postgraduate students, and researchers working in crystallography and solid state chemistry.
| Contents |
1.
Structure and diffraction of aperiodic crystals
2.
Modulated crystals in superspace
3.
Symmetry of modulated crystals
4.
Incommensurate composite crystals
5.
Superstructures and the commensurate approximation
6.
Quantitative description of the diffraction by aperiodic crystals
7.
Structure refinements
8.
Electron density in superspace
9.
Determination of the superspace group
10.
Methods of structure solution
11.
Systematic crystal chemistry
Appendices
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Sander van Smaalen, University of Bayreuth
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