Structure And Chemistry of Crystalline Solids

by Douglas, Bodie E.; Ho, Shih-Ming

• ISBN13: 9780387261478
• ISBN10: 0387261478
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-10
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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. 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 structurePresents a general system using simple notation to reveal similarities and differences among crystal structuresDepicts more than 300 selected and prepared figures illustrating structures found in thousands of compoundsIncludes a CD-ROM with CrystalMakerTM data files to allow the reader to view and manipulate the structures on both Windows and Macintosh platforms

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	1	(5)
Classification of Crystals, Point Groups, and Space Groups	6	(15)
Close Packing and the PTOT System	21	(13)
Crystal Structures of the Elements and Some Molecular Crystals	34	(29)
Structures Involving P and O Layers	63	(54)
Crystal Structures Involving P and T Layers	117	(30)
Crystal Structures Involving P, T, and O Layers	147	(25)
Structures with Multiple Layers	172	(23)
Crystal Structures of Some Intermetallic Compounds	195	(38)
Crystal Structures of Silica and Metal Silicates	233	(46)
Structures of Organic Compounds	279	(13)
Predicting Structures and Assigning Notations	292	(14)
Appendix A Further Reading	306	(3)
Appendix B Polyhedra in Close-Packed Structures	309	(8)
Subject Index	317	(8)
Minerals and Gems Index	325	(2)
Formula Index	327