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The new edition of this highly readable, popular textbook covers the fundamentals of crystallography, symmetry and diffraction and applies these concepts to a large range of materials. Now with new end-of-chapter exercises, more illustrations, more streamlined coverage of crystallography and additional coverage of magnetic point group symmetry.

Table of Contents
1. Materials and materials properties; 2. The periodic table and bonds; 3. What is a crystal structure?; 4. Crystallographic computations; 5. Lattice planes; 6. Reciprocal space; 7. Additional crystallographic computations; 8. Symmetry in crystallography; 9. Point groups; 10. Plane groups and space groups; 11. X-ray diffraction: geometry; 12. X-ray diffraction: intensities; 13. Other diffraction techniques; 14. About crystal structures and diffraction patterns; 15. Non-crystallographic point groups; 16. Periodic and aperiodic things; 17. Metallic structures I; 18. Metallic structures II; 19. Metallic structures III: quasicrystals; 20. Metallic structures IV: amorphous metals; 21. Ceramic structures I; 22. Ceramic structures II: high temperature superconductors; 23. Ceramic structures III: terrestrial and extraterrestrial minerals; 24. Molecular solids and biological materials.

Structure of Materials An Introduction to Crystallography Diffraction and Symmetry

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 10 August 2012
      ISBN-13 9781107005877
      978-1107005877
      ISBN-10 1107005876
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      Solid state chemistry

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The new edition of this highly readable, popular textbook covers the fundamentals of crystallography, symmetry and diffraction and applies these concepts to a large range of materials. Now with new end-of-chapter exercises, more illustrations, more streamlined coverage of crystallography and additional coverage of magnetic point group symmetry.

      Table of Contents
      1. Materials and materials properties; 2. The periodic table and bonds; 3. What is a crystal structure?; 4. Crystallographic computations; 5. Lattice planes; 6. Reciprocal space; 7. Additional crystallographic computations; 8. Symmetry in crystallography; 9. Point groups; 10. Plane groups and space groups; 11. X-ray diffraction: geometry; 12. X-ray diffraction: intensities; 13. Other diffraction techniques; 14. About crystal structures and diffraction patterns; 15. Non-crystallographic point groups; 16. Periodic and aperiodic things; 17. Metallic structures I; 18. Metallic structures II; 19. Metallic structures III: quasicrystals; 20. Metallic structures IV: amorphous metals; 21. Ceramic structures I; 22. Ceramic structures II: high temperature superconductors; 23. Ceramic structures III: terrestrial and extraterrestrial minerals; 24. Molecular solids and biological materials.

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