Crystallography of Modular Materials
Giovanni Ferraris, Emil Makovicky, and Stefano Merlino
Abstract
This book provides a 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. 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 ... More
This book provides a 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. 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 microscale, together with disorder, causes many problems to the determination of crystal structures. The book develops the theory of twinning with the inclusion of worked examples. In spite of the increasing use of the concepts of modular crystallography for characterizing, understanding, and tailoring technological crystalline materials, this book offers a unified treatment of the results, which are spread across many different journal and papers published over the last twenty years.
Keywords:
polytypes,
homologous series,
polysomatic series,
OD theory,
twinning,
modelling of crystal structures,
modular crystallography,
tailoring crystalline materials
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199545698 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545698.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Giovanni Ferraris, author
Faculty of Mathematical Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Turin, Italy
Emil Makovicky, author
Mineralogy Department of the Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Stefano Merlino, author
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
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