Structural Crystallography of Inorganic Oxysalts (International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography)

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`A well balanced approach to the subject by one of the leaders in the field, including a number of topics such as supramolecular structures and nanostructures that are of current interest and not well treated in other sources.' David Brown, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

`A book of interest to all researchers working with inorganic crystal structures, by one of the best young scientists in the fields of mineralogical crystallography and descriptive mineralogy.' Giovanni Ferraris, University of Torino, Italy

Product Description
This book is the first book dealing with structural crystallography of inorganic oxysalts in general. A special emphasis is placed upon structural topology and methods of its description. The latter include graph theory, nets, 2-D and 3-D tilings, polyhedra, etc. The structures considered range from minerals to organically templated oxysalts, for all of which this book provides a unified approach to structure interpretation and classification. Most of the structures have been analysed from the proposed viewpoint for the first time and it has been shown that they possess the same topological genealogy and relationships, sometimes despite their obvious chemical differences. In order to expand the range of oxysalts considered, the book offers not only traditional schemes but also alternative approaches such as anion topologis, anion-centered polyhedra and cation arrays. As such, this book can be considered as a comprehensive introduction into the amazingly complex and diverse world of inorganic oxysalts.