Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2020.1853712
P. Macchi
By rephrasing the incipit of one of the most influential books: a spectre is haunting science, the spectre of quantum crystallography. This name is ever more frequent in the scientific literature and very appealing. Though, what does it reflect? Both crystallography and quantum mechanics are branches of science, although perceived in an inappropriate way: crystallography is often a synonymous for X-ray diffraction whereas quantum mechanics is intended as computational physics or chemistry. Both diffraction and computation are not sciences, but techniques. Establishing the quantum mechanical paradigm was one of the most important scientific revolutions, which changed the perspective of physics and unveiled the nature of small particles. Instead, crystallography is an old science, anciently started when the search for naturally grown materials was vital. The curiosity for crystal morphologies and growth led to more in-depth descriptive analyses and classifications of minerals. Contemporarily, the mathematical description of periodic structures developed. Everything changed abruptly when X-rays were discovered, offering a new light to look inside crystals and unveil their content at an atomic resolution, and even beyond, where quantum mechanics dominates. The purpose of this review is to illustrate how profound and long standing is the entanglement between the two sciences.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2020.1825399
H. Dabkowska
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/0889311X.2020.1855721
P. Bombicz
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2020.1788005
J. Helliwell
Professor M. Vijayan, a National Academy of Sciences India Platinum Jubilee Senior Scientist based at the Molecular Biophysics Unit Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India has retired and sha...
M. Vijayan教授，印度班加罗尔印度科学研究所分子生物物理单元的印度国家科学院白金禧年高级科学家，已经退休并…
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2020.1797708
D. Keen
The importance of total scattering and its Fourier transform, the pair distribution function, in crystallography was understood soon after it was shown that crystals diffract X-rays. However for the next fifty years or so other techniques based more firmly on the crystal lattice came to the fore and total scattering measurements were largely the domain of those studying liquid and amorphous structure. In the late 1980s it was ‘rediscovered’ as a way to uncover disorder within crystal structures and since then the combination of improved instrumentation and analysis has led to a resurgence of the total scattering method. This review sets out this journey, highlighting both the early origins and – more importantly – the ways that total scattering and pair distribution functions are routinely used within crystallography today.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2020.1810028
I. Mandel
I am not a planets person. Well, I once took a break from my usual playground of high-energy astrophysics and wrote an article about planets, specifically planets orbiting stars other than the Sun....
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/0889311X.2020.1832736
P. Bombicz
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Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2020.1760856
L. Falvello
This educational review postulates the importance of maintaining an adequate level of crystallographic education among structure-dependent scientists whose interests are not primarily in crystallography, at a time when automation and validation have made it possible to obtain high-quality structure analyses in many cases with a minimum of crystallographic background. The topics addressed are intended to form a second round of crystallographic education for a novice user whose first round involved hands-on experience with structure solution and an introduction to elementary concepts. The specific topics, chosen for their relevance as basic knowledge and their lack of emphasis in many formal treatments, are (1) crystallographic reference frames and the utility of the reciprocal cell in geometrical calculations; (2) the relationship between the two concepts that constitute our model of the crystal, namely the unit cell and the lattice; (3) the manner in which an atom is represented in concept and in practice; (4) the importance of interleaved symmetry elements required by the presence of additional symmetry on a lattice; (5) the harnessing of the natural properties of the crystalline state for the potential manipulation of properties of synthetic crystals; and (6) useful terminology for navigating a crystal structure.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/0889311x.2020.1772185
P. Bombicz
Crystallographers around the world are making strong contributions to the efforts to fight against the disease COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Crystallography is at the scientific forefro...
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