Crystals, chemistry

R. C. Evans, An Introduction to Crystal Chemistry, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1966. 

R. J. D. Tilley, Defect Crystal Chemistry and Its Applications, Blackie, Glasgow, Scodand, 1987. 

As for solid-state chemistry, that began in the form of crystal chemistry , the systematic study of the chemical (and physical) factors that govern the structures in which specific chemicals and chemical families crystallise, and many books on this topic were published from the 1930s onwards. The most important addition to straight crystal chemistry from the 1940s onwards was the examination of crystal... 

In spite of the slow development of crystal structure analysis, once it did take olT it involved a huge number of investigators tens of thousands of crystal structures were determined, and as experimental and interpretational techniques became more sophisticated, the technique was extended to extremely complex biological molecules. The most notable early achievement was the structure analysis, in 1949, of crystalline penicillin by Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin and Charles Bunn this analysis achieved something that traditional chemical examination had not been able to do. By this time, the crystal structure, and crystal chemistry, of a huge variety of inorganic compounds had been established, and that was most certainly a prerequisite for the creation of modern materials science. 

Crystallography is a very broad science, stretching from crystal-structure determination to crystal physics (especially the systematic study and mathematical analysis of anisotropy), crystal chemistry and the geometrical study of phase transitions in the solid state, and stretching to the prediction of crystal structures from first principles this last is very active nowadays and is entirely dependent on recent advances in the electron theory of solids. There is also a flourishing field of applied crystallography, encompassing such skills as the determination of preferred orientations, alias textures, in polycrystalline assemblies. It would be fair to say that... 

Together with the structural principles established by the Bragg school concerning the many types of silicates, Goldschmidt s ideas were taken further by Linus Pauling in California to establish the modern science of crystal chemistry. A good early overview of the whole field can be found in a book by Evans (1939, 1964). 

Perhaps the last general overview of crystallography in all its many aspects, including crystal chemistry and crystal physics and the history of crystallographic concepts, as well as the basics of crystal structure determination, was a famous book... 

Newnham, R.E. (1975) Structure-Property Relations (in a monograph series on Crystal Chemistry of Non-Metallic Materials) (Springer, Berlin). 

Garside, J. and Mullin, J.W., 1966. Continuous measurement of solution concentration in a crystallizer. Chemistry and Industry, November 26, pp. 2007-2008. 

The crystal chemistry of metal nitrides has been reviewed and there have recently been some intriguing developments in our understanding of the stoichiometries and structures of ternary and quaternary metal nitrides. 

Despite the relatively short history of the chemistry of fluoride compounds, several thousands of binary and ternary fluoride compounds have been described, and their systematization is well developed [39 - 41]. Significant progress was achieved in the study of the crystal chemistry of fluoride compounds thanks to the ionic character of their chemical bonds and corresponding simplicity of their ciystal structure. The structure of these kinds of compounds is defined primarily by the geometry and the energy of mainly... 

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF TANTALUM AND NIOBIUM FLUORIDE COMPOUNDS... 

Crystal chemistry ofTa and Nb fluorides- Island type structure compounds... 

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