Crystallography and Chemistry: An Ongoing Engagement

Communicating chemistry for public engagement.

The communication of chemistry to wider society is difficult because of ‘chemophobia’, its inherent complexity and its lack of unifying grand themes. To engage with citizens about the benefits and related dangers of the field, chemists must improve their dialogue with broader sections of the public — but how?

Superspace crystallography: a key to the chemistry and properties

An overview is given of the recent advances in the field of modulated molecular and inorganic crystals with an emphasis on the links between incommensurability, intermolecular and interatomic interactions and, wherever possible, the properties of the materials. The importance of detailed knowledge on the modulated structure for understanding the crystal chemistry and the functional properties o...

Chemistry Central Journal themed issue: Current Topics in Chemical Crystallography

Preamble It was a pleasure to be invited to act as editor for this themed issue in which we aim to assemble a series of invited and submitted papers which provide a look at some of the current research efforts defining the subject of “Chemical Crystallography”. Of course, the timing of this is to make a positive contribution to the celebration of this special year, 2014 the UNESCO Year of Cryst...

Electron crystallography – an introduction

Everything in Nature, macroscopic or microscopic, inorganic, organic or biological, has its specific properties. Most properties of matter depend on the structures, and many techniques have been developed over the centuries for structure analysis. The greatest of them all, structure analysis of single crystals by X-ray diffraction, X-ray crystallography, was founded in 1912 and is still today t...

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