Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography

• Publisher: De Gruyter (O)
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography" presents a collection of review articles with the common topic: structural properties of minerals and synthetic analogues. It is a valuable resource for mineralogists, materials scientists, crystallographers, and earth scientists. This book includes:

• An introduction to the RRUFF database for structural, spectroscopic, and chemical mineral identification.
• A systematic evaluation of structural complexity of minerals.
• ab initio computer modelling of mineral surfaces.
• Natural quasicrystals of meteoritic origin.
• The potential role of terrestrial ringwoodite on the water content of the Earth's mantle.
• Structural characterization of nanocrystalline bio-related minerals by electron-diffraction tomography.
• The uniqueness of mayenite-type compounds as minerals and high-tech ceramics.

• Presents top research
• Provides state-of-the-art methods and techniques
• Addresses mineralogists, crystallographers and materials scientists

✦ Table of Contents

Editorial
Contents
List of contributing authors
1. The power of databases: The RRUFF project
2. Structural complexity of minerals and mineral parageneses: Information and its evolution in the mineral world
3. Ab initio simulations of mineral surfaces: Recent advances in numerical methods and selected applications
4. Natural quasicrystals: A new frontier in mineralogy and its impact on our understanding of matter and the origin of the solar system
5. Ringwoodite: its importance in Earth Sciences
6. Investigation of bio-related minerals by electron-diffraction tomography: Vaterite, dental hydroxyapatite, and crystalline nanorods in sponge primmorphs
7. Mayenite Ca₁₂Al₁₄O₃₂[X²⁻]: From minerals to the first stable electride crystals
Index