Crystallography

Crystal Chemistry and Semiconduction in Transition Metal Binary Compounds provides information pertinent to semiconductor materials.

Epitaxial Growth, Part A is a compilation of review articles that describe various aspects of the growth of single-crystal films on single-crystal substrates.

Molecular Crystals and Molecules deals with some of the problems of molecular crystallography and certain aspects of molecular structure.

Anelastic Relaxation in Crystalline Solids provides an overview of anelasticity in crystals.

Structure and Bonding in Crystals presents a new understanding of the older topics such as bond length, bond strength, and ionic radii.

The Laue Method demonstrates why and how the Laue method provides an easy vehicle for identification of crystalline species.

Crystallography Made Crystal Clear is designed to meet the need for an X-ray analysis that is between brief textbook sections and complete treatments.

Crystallography Made Crystal Clear makes crystallography accessible to readers who have no prior knowledge of the field or its mathematical basis.

Features a crystal directory, organised by colour, covers the properties of over 200 stones, as well as their common and historical uses.

This second edition of Nanocrystalline Materials provides updated information on the development and experimental work on the synthesis, properties, and applications of nanocrystalline materials.

A handy guide identifying over 170 types of the world's gemstones with beautiful colour photography taken from the Smithsonian Institution's archives.

Molecular carbon chains have attracted much interest for more than 130 years, but the length of chains is limited to 44 atoms even by sophisticated chemical synthesis.

Given the widespread interest in macroscopic phenomena in liquid crystals, stemming from their applications in displays and devices.

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics (linear and non linear).

Knowledge of the microscopic structure of biological systems is the key to understanding their physiological properties.

In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch.

In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch.

Due to its nondestructive imaging power, scanning tunneling microscopy has found major applications in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.

This book deals with the electron density distribution in molecules and solids as obtained experimentally by X-ray diffraction.

This textbook is a modern take on an old subject at the heart of materials physics.

Neutron scattering is arguably the most powerful technique available for looking inside materials and seeing what the atoms are doing.

Architects of Structural Biology is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four scientists who are among the greatest in modern times.

The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) was invented by Binnig and Rohrer and received a Nobel Prize of Physics in 1986.

This monograph provides the first extensive treatment of magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS).

Most people are familiar with the fact that diamond and graphite are both composed only of carbon; yet they have very different properties which result from the very different structures of the two solids - they are polymorphs of carbon.

Over the past several decades, aThis book deals with the characterisation of the structure, the structure determination and the study of the physical properties, especially dynamical and electronic properties of aperiodic crystals.

This book consists of over 422 problems and their acceptable answers on structural inorganic chemistry at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate level.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the symmetry and geometry of crystals and molecules, starting from first principles.

Small angle solution scattering (SAS) is increasingly being applied to biological problems.

In crystal chemistry and crystal physics, the relations between the symmetry groups (space groups) of crystalline solids are of special importance.

In crystal chemistry and crystal physics, the relations between the symmetry groups (space groups) of crystalline solids are of special importance.

The year 2012 marked the centenary of one of the most significant discoveries of the early twentieth century, the discovery of X-ray diffraction (March 1912, by Laue, Friedrich and Knipping) and of Bragg's law (November 1912).

The year 2012 marked the centenary of one of the most significant discoveries of the early twentieth century, the discovery of X-ray diffraction (March 1912, by Laue, Friedrich and Knipping) and of Bragg's law (November 1912).

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father, William thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Outline of Crystallography for Biologists is intended for researchers and students in the biological sciences who require an insight into the methods of X-ray crystallography without needing to learn all the relevant theory.

Hydrogen bond (H-bond) effects are known: it makes sea water liquid, joins cellulose microfibrils in trees, shapes DNA into genes and polypeptide chains into wool, hair, muscles or enzymes.

This book gives the complete theory of the irreducible representations of the crystallographic point groups and space groups.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an amazing technique that allies a versatile methodology (that allows measurement of samples in liquid, vacuum or air) to imaging with unprecedented resolution.

Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer invaluable information to archaeology, art history, and conservation.

This text focuses on the practical aspects of crystal structure analysis, and provides the necessary conceptual framework for understanding and applying the technique.

Hydrogen bond (H-bond) effects are known: it makes sea water liquid, joins cellulose microfibrils in trees, shapes DNA into genes and polypeptide chains into wool, hair, muscles or enzymes.

This book introduces physics to a first year undergraduate in the language of mathematics.

The crystallization of proteins and nucleic acids and/or their complexes has become more highly automated but is still often a trial and error based approach.

This book is the first book dealing with structural crystallography of inorganic oxysalts in general.

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.

The first systematic experiments in neutron scattering were carried out in the late 1940s using fission reactors built for the nuclear power programme.

Polymorphism - the multiplicity of structures or forms - is a term that is used in many disciplines.

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father, William thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

This concise book is for chemists, material scientists, and physicists who deal with description of crystalline matter and the determination of its structure, and would like to gain more understanding of the principles involved.

The art of solving a structure from powder diffraction data has developed rapidly over the last ten years to the point where numerous crystal structures, both organic and inorganic, have been solved directly from powder data.