Crystals And Crystal Structures

Description

By (author) Tilley Richard J. D.

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An authoritative, updated text that offers an introduction to crystals and crystal structure with coverage of crystallography, and microscopy of materials

Written in a friendly, non-mathematical style, the updated second edition of Crystals and Crystal Structures offers a comprehensive exploration of the key elements of crystals and crystal structures. Starting with the basics, it includes information on multiple areas of crystallography, including modulated structures, quasicrystals and protein crystallography, and interdisciplinary applications as diverse as the relationship between physical properties and symmetry.

To enhance comprehension of the material presented, the book contains a variety of problems and exercises. The revised second edition offers new material and updates in the field including:

• An introduction to the use of high intensity X-ray analysis of protein structures
• Advances in imaging, scanning electron microscopy, and cryo-electron microscopy
• The relationship between symmetry and physical properties highlighting new findings and an introduction to tensor notation in describing these relationships in a concise fashion
• Nanoparticles as well as crystallographic aspects, defects, surface defects and the impact of these crystallographic features on properties
• Perovskite structures and their variations and the inclusion of their wide-ranging properties

Written for students ofcrystallography, chemistry, physics, materials science, biosciences and geology, Crystals and Crystal Structures, Second Edition provides an understanding of the subject and enables students to read scientific papers and articles describing a crystal structure or use crystallographic databases.

Table of contents:

Preface ix

Chapter 1: Crystals and Crystal Structures 1

1.1 Crystal Families and Crystal Systems 1

1.2 Unit Cells and Miller Indices 4

1.3 The Determination of Crystal Structures 6

1.4 Theof Crystal Structures 6

1.5 Crystal Structures: Metals 8

1.5.1 The Cubic Close-packed (A1) Structure of Copper 9

1.5.2 The Body-Centred Cubic (A2) Structure of Tungsten 9

1.5.3 The Hexagonal (A3) Structure of Magnesium 10

1.6 Crystal Structures: Binary Compounds 10

1.6.1 The Halite (Rock Salt, NaCl) Structure 10

1.6.2 The Rutile Structure 11

1.6.3 The Fluorite Structure 11

1.7 The Cubic Perovskite Structure 12

1.8 The Structure of Urea 13

1.9 The Density of a Crystal 14

Answers to Introductory Questions 15

Problems and Exercises 16

Chapter 2: Lattices, Planes and Directions 19

2.1 Two-dimensional Lattices 19

2.2 Unit Cells 22

2.3 The Reciprocal Lattice in Two Dimensions 22

2.4 Three-dimensional Lattices 26

2.5 Rhombohedral, Hexagonal and Cubic Lattices 29

2.6 Alternative Unit Cells 30

2.7 The Reciprocal Lattice in Three Dimensions 31

2.8 Lattice Planes and Miller Indices 34

2.9 Hexagonal Lattices and Miller-Bravais Indices 37

2.10 Miller Indices and Planes in Crystals 37

2.11 Directions 39

2.12 Lattice Geometry 41

Answers to Introductory Questions 44

Problems and Exercises 44

Chapter 3: Two-dimensional Patterns and Tiling 49

3.1 The Symmetry of an Isolated Shape: Point Symmetry 49

3.2 Rotation Symmetry of a Plane Lattice 52

3.3 The Symmetry of the Plane Lattices 53

3.4 The Ten Plane Crystallographic Point Symmetry Groups 55

3.5 The Symmetry of Patterns: The 17 Plane Groups 57

3.6 Two-dimensional Crystal Structures 63

3.7 General and Special Positions 66

3.8 Tesselations 68

Answers to Introductory Questions 71