Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids

ISBN-13: 9780387261478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 346 str.

Bodie Douglas; Shi-Ming Ho; Shih-Ming Ho

Opis

Crystallographers have an elegant system using definitive notation for describing crystal structures, but it does not serve as well the needs of many others working with crystalline solids. Most chemists, metallurgists, mineralogists, geologists and workers in material sciences need a simple system and notation for describing crystal structures. Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids presents a widely applicable system with simple notation giving important information about the structure and the chemical environment of ions or molecules. It is easily understood and used by those concerned with applications dependent on structure-properties relationships. This book addresses the needs of people working with crystal structures in several fields, while most other books on crystal structures are more than two decades old. Early chapters provide an introduction to crystal structures and symmetry for readers with a variety of backgrounds. Insight into crystal structures, including some complex silicates, is aided by the use of the CrystalMaker computer program. Key Features:

• Understandable by anyone concerned withcrystals or solid state properties dependent on structure
• Presents a general system using simple notation to reveal similarities and differences among crystal structures
• Depicts more than 300selected andprepared figures illustrating structures found in thousands of compounds

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Recenzje

From the reviews of the first edition:

"This book is very interesting and useful for its ability to describe systematically the often-overlooked similarities among crystal structures that appear, at first glance, to be very different. As such, it will appeal to specialists in crystal chemistry who are interested in probing deeper into structural similarities and differences in solid-state compounds and also to educators and students who desire supplementary information about crystal structures." (Raymond E. Schaak, JACS, Vol. 129 (2), 2007)

Spis treści

-Introduction. -Classification of Crystals, Point Groups and Space Groups. -Close Packing and the PTOT System. -Structures of The Elements. -Crystal Structures Involving P and 0 Layers. -Crystal Structures Involving P and T Layers. -Crystal Structures Involving P, T and O Layers. -Crystal Structures Involving Multiple Layers. -Crystal Structures of Some Intermetallic Compounds. -Crystal Structures of Silica and Metal Silicates. -Crystal Structures of Some Simple Organic Compounds.

O autorze

Bodie Douglas is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry of the University of Pittsburgh. He has had three editions of an inorganic chemistry textbook and a textbook on symmetry and group theory. He spent a year with the crystallographic group of Sir Gordon Cox at the University of Leeds (England). Shi-Ming Ho retired from Westinghouse Research Laboratory where he worked in materials science. Ideas for the system used for describing structures in this book were part of his doctoral dissertation with Bodie Douglas.

Blurb

Crystallographers have an elegant system using definitive notation for describing crystal structures, but it does not serve as well the needs of many others working with crystalline solids. Most chemists, metallurgists, mineralogists, geologists and materials scientists need a simple system and notation for describing crystal structures. Structure and Chemistry of Crystalline Solids presents a widely applicable system with simple notation giving important information about the structure and the chemical environment of ions or molecules. It is easily understood and used by those concerned with applications dependent on structure-properties relationships. Early chapters provide an introduction to crystal structures and symmetry for readers with a variety of backgrounds.
Insight into crystal structures, including some complex silicates, is aided by the use of the CrystalMaker computer program. The bundled CD-ROM, which uses CrystalMaker for instruction and demos on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, allows the user to manipulate the structures.
Key Features:
Understandable by anyone concerned with crystals or solid state properties dependent on structure
Presents a general system using simple notation to reveal similarities and differences among crystal structures
Depicts more than 300 selected and prepared figures illustrating structures found in thousands of compounds
Includes a CD-ROM with CrystalMakerTM data files to allow the reader to view and manipulate the structures on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.