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Crystallography of Modular Materials

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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.

Author Biography:

Giovanni Ferraris is Professor of Crystallography at the University of Turin, Italy. Emil Makovicky is Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Stefano Merlino is Professor of Crystallography at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Release date Australia
March 25th, 2004
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
numerous figures
Pages
384
Dimensions
162x241x24
ISBN-13
9780198526643
Product ID
2396656

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