Crystal Symmetry and Structure
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2014) | Viewed by 67661
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept of crystal structure is intimately related to the notion of symmetry. W.L. Bragg published the description of the first structures only a year after the discovery of diffraction by crystals a century ago. By combining both diffraction and symmetry considerations he could solve the first crystal structures. The description of the symmetry properties of the 230 space groups a few years later by P. Niggli in 1919 is at the origin of the tremendous success of diffraction methods for the elucidation of structures. Space groups are systematically used nowadays to solve, describe and classify any of them.
The paradigm of the three dimensional periodicity of crystalline matter ended up in the 1970’s when aperiodic structures were discovered. The classical concept of three-dimensional symmetry had to be extended to higher dimensional symmetry considerations. Currently, it is not unusual to describe well-ordered structures but aperiodic ones in space up to six dimensions, in the frame of the so-called superspace symmetry groups.
It is the aim of this special issue of Symmetry to present a broad spectrum of modern and recent aspects of symmetry considerations, which are at the disposal of the specialists in order to improve our understanding of the fine structure details of crystalline solids.
Prof. Dr. Gervais Chapuis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- point group symmetry
- space group symmetry
- superspace group symmetry
- periodic crystal structures
- aperiodic crystal structures
- Bravais lattices
- diffraction symmetry
- local symmetry
- scaling symmetry
- molecular symmetry
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