Engineering of Crystalline Materials Properties State of the Art in Modeling, Design and Applications /

This volume collects the lecture notes (ordered alphabetically according to the first author surname) of the talks delivered by the main speakers at the Erice 2007 International School of Crystallography, generously selected by NATO as an Advanced Study Institute (# 982582). The aim of the school wa...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Novoa, Juan J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Braga, Dario. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Addadi, Lia. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6823-2
Table of Contents:
  • Biomineralization Design Strategies and Mechanisms of Mineral Formation: Operating at the Edge of Instability
  • Self-Assembled Monolayers as Templates for Inorganic Crystallization: a Bio-Inspired Approach
  • Databases in Crystal Engineering
  • Case Studies on Intermolecular Interactions in Crystalline Metals
  • Crystal Polymorphism
  • Complementarity: Correlating Structural Features with Physical Properties in Supramolecular Systems
  • Making Crystals from Crystals: A Solid-State Route to the Engineering of Crystalline Materials, Polymorphs, Solvates and Co-Crystals; Considerations on the Future of Crystal Engineering
  • Nanostructured Frameworks for Materials Applications
  • Crystal Engineering of Multifunctional Molecular Materials
  • Topological Approaches to the Structure of Crystalline and Amorphous Atom Assemblies
  • Hydrogen-Bonded Crystals of Exceptional Dielectric Properties
  • Chirality In Crystals
  • Design, Characterization and Use of Crystalline Thin Film Architectures at the Air-Liquid Interface
  • Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Molecule-Based Magnets
  • From Bonds to Packing: An Energy-Based Crystal Packing Analysis for Molecular Crystals Packing Analysis for Molecular Crystals
  • On the Calculation and Interpretation of Crystal Energy Landscapes
  • NMR Crystallography and the Elucidation of Structure-Property Relationships in Crystalline Solids
  • Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics
  • Building Conducting Materials from Design to Devices
  • Hydrogen Bonding and Concurrent Interactions
  • Signalling By Modulation of Intermolecular Interactions
  • Biomineralization of Organic Phases Associated With Human Diseases
  • Crystal Structure Determination from X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data
  • Surface Properties of the Binary Alloy Thin Films.