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Crystals and Crystal Structures - 2nd Edition by Richard J D Tilley (Paperback)
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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.
- About the Author: RICHARD J. D. TILLEY D. Sc, Ph. D, is Emeritus Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
- 312 Pages
- Science, Physics
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About the Book
"Crystallography - the study of crystals, their structures and properties, plays an important role in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, chemistry, materials science and technology, mineralogy and physics, as well as engineering. The scientific breakthroughs in the first half of the 20th century, leading to applications as diverse as nuclear power and semiconductor technology, were built, to a considerable extent, upon detailed understanding of metallic and inorganic crystal structures. In the latter half of the 20th century, molecular biology, founded upon the determination of molecular crystal structures, has led to a deep-rooted change in medicine, with the structures of biologically important molecules such as insulin, the epoch making determination of the crystal structure of DNA and recent studies of protein structures, being pivotal"--Book Synopsis
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.
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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 of crystallography, 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.
About the Author
RICHARD J. D. TILLEY D. Sc, Ph. D, is Emeritus Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Cardiff, Wales, U.K. He has published extensively in the area of solid-state materials science, including nine textbooks (translated into multiple languages), 23 chapters and encyclopedia entries and more than 200 journal papers.