Adhesion and friction
in Physics of Ice
January 2002; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 3163 words.
This chapter first discusses experiments on the adhesion of ice to other materials, which presents very real practical problems in cold climates. It then considers the low coefficient of friction for...
Advanced Structural Inorganic Chemistry
March 2008; published online May 2008.
Book. Subjects: crystallography. 848 pages.
This text is an updated English version of a class-tested textbook originally published in Chinese in 2006. Its contents are based on the lecture notes of several courses taught by the authors at The...
Alternative approaches
in Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection
March 2010; published online May 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 2888 words.
The arsenal of techniques extends to more biophysics‐based approaches to improving crystal quality or minimizing sample, singly or in combination. These include use of gels, microgravity,...
Alternative approaches to structure description
in Structural Crystallography of Inorganic Oxysalts
January 2009; published online May 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 11984 words.
This chapter is devoted to alternative approaches to description of complex structures of inorganic oxysalts. These include, first, treatment in terms of anion-centered polyhedra (either tetrahedra...
Analysing disordered structures
in Diffuse Scattering and Defect Structure Simulations
July 2008; published online September 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 5087 words.
This chapter addresses the question of how to visualize a large disordered structure and how to extract information describing the disorder from a large model crystal. Topics include the...
Analysis of extended inorganic structures
in Crystal Structure Analysis
June 2009; published online September 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 6076 words.
Extended (polymeric) inorganic structures present different problems to crystallographers than molecular structures. The samples are often tiny crystals, atomic scattering powers vary widely, and...
Analysis of long‐range order
in Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection
March 2010; published online May 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 5025 words.
Mosaicity, topography, and reciprocal‐space mapping are all techniques to probe the physical characteristics of the crystals through their interaction with X‐rays. The techniques described are...
Analysis of the molecular short‐range order
in Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection
March 2010; published online May 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 1908 words.
Whilst the transition from short‐range order to long‐range order is not a sharp transition, i.e. there is a steady progression, there are metrics to judge the shorter‐range effects. These are...
Analytical techniques for studying and characterizing polymorphs
in Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals
December 2007; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 16796 words.
This chapter reviews the variety of analytical methods used in the investigation and characterization of molecular solids in general, and varieties of crystal forms in particular. The fundamental...
Anion and cation bonding strengths
in The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry
May 2006; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: crystallography. 3891 words.
The bonding strengths of the ions, listed in Appendix 4, are the valences of the bonds the ions typically form, i.e. their atomic valence divided by a typical coordination number. Bonding strengths...