Crystals and Crystal Structures

Crystals and Crystal Structures, Second Edition is an authoritative guide to understanding crystals and their structure.

Written in a friendly, non-mathematical style, this updated edition covers key elements of crystallography, including modulated structures, quasicrystals, protein crystallography, and interdisciplinary applications.

With new material and updates in the field, this book provides comprehensive exploration of crystals and their properties.

The revised second edition includes an introduction to high intensity X-ray analysis of protein structures, advances in imaging, scanning electron microscopy, and cryo-electron microscopy, as well as the relationship between symmetry and physical properties.

Additionally, it covers nanoparticles, crystallographic aspects, defects, surface defects, and their impact on properties.

Perfect for students of crystallography, chemistry, physics, materials science, biosciences, and geology, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of crystals and enables readers to read scientific papers and articles describing a crystal structure or use crystallographic databases.