Modularity and Twinning in Mineral Crystal Structures

• Diğer Yazarlar: Ferraris, Giovanni (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Konular: Research & information: general; Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning; tetrahedrite; tennantite; twinning; order-disorder approach; tetrahedral framework; modular structures; polysomes (series); synthetic analogues of minerals; transition metal phosphates; X-ray diffraction; antiferromagnets; frustrated magnets; kagomé lattice; chemical ordering; superstructure; spryite; argyrodite-type compounds; ultra-low temperature; RE-silicate-germanate; hydrothermal synthesis; layered silicates; modular approach; wollastonite chain; topology-symmetry analysis; OD theory; structure prediction; luminescence properties; twin wall; twin boundary; minerals; emerging properties; piezoelectricity in minerals; surface relaxations; anorthite; Pamierite; perovskite; OD structures; polytypism; polymorphism; heteropolyhedral framework; modularity; topology; borophosphates; aluminophosphates; DFT; electron diffraction; c-type reflections; ordering; calcite; glendonite; TEM; n/a
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The articles published in this Special Issue reprint offer a sound update of research fields where the concepts of modular crystallography are important and provide unique keys to understand and to solve problems of structural crystallography. Polytypism, polysomatism, and twinning are fertile field...