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New Edition, June 2018
Aperiodic Crystals
From Modulated Phases to Quasicrystals: Structure and Properties
Ted Janssen, Gervais Chapuis, and Marc de Boissieu
Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198824442
This book deals with the characterization of the structure, the structure determination, and the study of the physical properties, especially dynamical and electronic properties of aperiodic crystals. The treatment is based on a description in a space with more dimensions than three, the so-called superspace. The three main classes of aperiodic crystals, modulated phases, incommensurate composites, and quasicrystals, are treated from a unified point of view, which stresses similarities of the various systems. The book assumes as a prerequisite a knowledge of the fundamental techniques of crystallography and the theory of condensed matter and covers the literature at the forefront of the field.
This special publication is a printed snapshot of the contents of the Online Dictionary of Crystallography. It is edited by André Authier and Gervais Chapuis and produced by the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature as a contribution to the educational outreach activities
Its dissemination in a handy pocket-sized format will encourage wide circulation and may be useful in classrooms and public libraries, as well as in laboratories and on individual scientists’ book shelves.
The most up-to-date version of the definitions in this book can be found at http://reference.iucr.org/dictionary.
The book is available for online purchase at http://tinyurl.com/little-dictionary.http://tinyurl.com/little-dictionary
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