TY - BOOK AU - Armbruster,Thomas AU - Danisi,Rosa Micaela AU - Bindi,Luca AU - Churakov,Sergey V. AU - Downs,Robert AU - Gfeller,Frank AU - Krivovichev,Sergey V. AU - Lafuente,Barbara AU - Mugnaioli,Enrico AU - Nestola,Fabrizio TI - Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography SN - 9783110417104 AV - QD906.7 U1 - 549/.18 PY - 2015/// CY - Basel/Berlin/Boston PB - Walter de Gruyter GmbH KW - Crystallography KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- 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 Ca< -- sub> -- 12< -- /sub> -- Al< -- sub> -- 14< -- /sub> -- O< -- sub> -- 32< -- /sub> -- [X< -- sup> -- 2−< -- /sup> -- ]: From minerals to the first stable electride crystals -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4338502 ER -