Crystallography Of The Polymethylene Chain

Author : Douglas L. Dorset
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191523801
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystallography of the Polymethylene Chain written by Douglas L. Dorset and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By considering the solid state packing of linear chain wax components, this book aims at understanding three things: firstly, which modifications of molecular components are allowed for maintaining stable solid solutions; secondly, what happens when stability conditions are traversed and fractionation begins and thirdly, the structure of fractionated arrays. The co-compatibility of molecular ingredients is considered in terms of their shapes and relative sizes, following an approach originally proposed by Kitaigorodskii. As demonstrated profusely by the crystal structures of pure component types (e. g. alkanes, fatty alcohols, fatty acids, long chain esters, cholesteryl esters) and insertion of functional groups (e. g. chain branches, unsaturation, heteroatoms), characteristic molecular packing arrays provide important geometric information for understanding the co-packing of different molecules in mixtures. Single crystal and spectroscopic data from polydisperse arrays can then be evaluated to arrive at plausible structures of solid solutions and fractionated systems. The resultant structures are not only relevant to the understanding of so-called waxes but also include certain classes of polymers. The ramifications of this work extend into any solid state array of polymethylene chains, including lipid foodstuffs.

Author : Douglas L. Dorset
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198529082
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystallography of the Polymethylene Chain written by Douglas L. Dorset and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do mixtures of differently sized and shaped molecules form the plastic solids known as waxes? Firstly, the book considers the characteristic crystalline assemblies of important wax ingredients; secondly, it looks at assemblies of two separate components and finally, plausible molecular models for several types of wax are able to be constructed, based on the rules derived from the first two studies.

Author : Xiaodong Zou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191004804
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electron Crystallography written by Xiaodong Zou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern world of ever smaller devices and nanotechnology, electron crystallography emerges as the most important method capable of determining the structure of minute objects down to the size of individual atoms. Crystals of only a few millionths of a millimetre are studied. This is the first textbook explaining how this is done. Great attention is given to symmetry in crystals and how it manifests itself in electron microscopy and electron diffraction, and how this symmetry can be determined and taken advantage of in achieving improved electron microscopy images and solving crystal structures from electron diffraction patterns. Theory and practice are combined; experimental images, diffraction patterns, formulae and numerical data are discussed in parallel, giving the reader a complete understanding of what goes on inside the "black boxes" of computer programs. This up-to-date textbook contains the newest techniques in electron crystallography, including detailed descriptions and explanations of the recent remarkable successes in determining the very complex structures of zeolites and intermetallics. The controversial issue of whether there is phase information present in electron micrsocopy images or not is also resolved once and for all. The extensive appendices include computer labs which have been used at various courses at Stockholm University and international schools in electron crystallography, with applications to the textbook. Students can download image processing programs and follow these lab instructions to get a hands-on experience of electron crystallography.

Author : Paolo Radaelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191004790
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symmetry in Crystallography written by Paolo Radaelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the reader with a fresh and unconventional approach to teaching crystallographic symmetry. Whereas traditional crystallography textbooks make a heavy use of algebra and rapidly become very technical, this book adopts in the first few chapters a 'pictorial' approach based on the symmetry diagrams of the International Tables for Crystallography. Readers are led step-by-step through simple 'frieze' and 'wallpaper' patterns, with many examples from the visual arts. At the end of chapter 3 they should be able to identify and analyse all these simple symmetries and apply to them the nomenclature and symbols of the International Tables. Mathematical formalism is introduced later on in the book, and by that time the reader will have gained a solid intuitive grasp of the subject matter. This book will provide graduate students, advanced undergraduate students and practitioners in physics, chemistry, earth sciences and structural biology with a solid foundation to master the International Tables of Crystallography, and to understand the relevant literature.

Author : Christopher Hammond
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198738684
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction written by Christopher Hammond and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystallography and diffraction are widely used throughout science for studying structure. The aim of this book is to show, through relevant examples and without relying on complex mathematics, that the basic ideas behind crystallography and diffraction are simple and easily comprehensible.

Author : Nobuo Niimura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191004812
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neutron Protein Crystallography written by Nobuo Niimura and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first books dedicated to the emerging field of neutron protein crystallography (NPC). The text covers all of the practical aspects of NPC, from the basic background of neutron scattering and diffraction, to the technical details of neutron facilities, growth of high-quality crystals, and data analysis. The final chapter is devoted to providing many examples of using NPC to investigate a wide range of different proteins. It demonstrates how NPC can explore hydrogen bonds, protonation and deprotonation of amino acid residues, hydration structures, and hydrogen-to-deuterium exchange ratios. To avoid redundancy with other textbooks on X-ray protein crystallography (XPC), this book assumes a familiarity with the basics of XPC and strives to highlight and explain the differences between XPC and NPC. It is therefore especially useful for X-ray protein crystallographers who are eager to have a sound, scientific basis for judging if NPC is the right technique for furthering their experimental programs.

Author : Carmelo Giacovazzo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199686998
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phasing in Crystallography written by Carmelo Giacovazzo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes phasing techniques in modern crystallography. The main text is dedicated to their simple description, and further mathematical details are contained in the appendices. Practical aspects are described for each specific method, making it a useful tool for the daily work of practising crystallographers.

Author : Sergey V. Krivovichev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199213208
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Crystallography of Inorganic Oxysalts written by Sergey V. Krivovichev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inorganic oxysalts are chemical compounds that contain oxygen - the most abundant element in the Earth's core. This book is the first systematic survey of structures of inorganic oxysalts considered from the viewpoint of modern scientific methods of description and visualization of complex atomic arrangements.

Author : Giovanni Ferraris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191545872
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crystallography of Modular Materials written by Giovanni Ferraris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of theories and applications in the rapidly expanding field of the crystallography of modular materials. Molecules are the natural modules from which molecular crystalline structures are built. Most inorganic structures, however, are infinite arrays of atoms and some kinds of surrogate modules, e.g. co-ordination polyhedra, are usually used to describe them. In recent years the attention has been focused on complex modules as the basis for a systematic description of polytypes and homologous/polysomatic series (modular structures). This representation is applied to the modelling of unknown structures and understanding nanoscale defects and intergrowths in materials. The Order/Disorder (OD) theory is fundamental to developing a systematic theory of polytypism, dealing with those structures based on both ordered and disordered stacking of one or more layers. Twinning at both unit-cell and micro-scale, together with disorder, causes many problems, "demons", for computer-based methods of crystal structure determination. This book develops the theory of twinning with the inclusion of worked examples, converting the "demons" into useful indicators for unravelling crystal structure. In spite of the increasing use of the concepts of modular crystallography for characterising, understanding and tailoring technological crystalline materials, this is the first book to offer a unified treatment of the results, which are spread across many different journals and original papers published over the last twenty years.

Author : D.L. Dorset
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475766211
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Electron Crystallography written by D.L. Dorset and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative text on electron diffraction and crystal structure analysis is the first to describe direct phasing techniques in electron crystallography. Written for electron diffractionists and electron microscopists, this fully illustrated volume presents methods for specimen preparation, data collection and structure analysis. Chapters feature numerous detailed examples of actual structure analyses and contain over 350 illustrations.