By Juan J. Novoa, Dario Braga, Lia Addadi
This quantity collects the cutting-edge in molecular fabrics. It collects the lecture notes of a chain of lectures given by way of the superior experts within the box on the 2007 Erice foreign university of Crystallography -and additionally a NATO-ASI course-. the college constructed alongside parallel traces. First we stablished "where we're" by way of modeling, layout, synthesis and purposes of crystalline solids with predefined houses. moment, we tried to outline present and attainable futuristic strains of improvement within the quest for novel molecule-based fabrics with power functions in magnetism, conductivity and superconductivity, non-linear optics (NLO), drug supply, and nanotechnology.
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BACCHI and rotation axes, their inhibiting effect being mitigated by the simultaneous presence of glide planes or screw axes or both. To a first approximation the number of structures in each space group of a given crystal class is given by Nsg = Acc exp (– Bcc[2]sg – Ccc[m]sg), where [2]sg is the number of twofold axes and [m]sg is the number of reflexion planes in the primitive cell, Bcc and Ccc are parameters characteristic of the crystal class in question, and Acc is a normalizing factor, proportional to the total number of structures in the crystal class.
On Ag(111), X-terminated alkanethiols self-assemble in a hexagonal array with 20 J. 77 Å, α = 8–12°, β = 42–45° [43]. The presence of counterions, such as Cd2+ and Ca2+, has been shown to induce an additional ordering of terminal acidic headgroups in SAMs [31, 45–48]. We anticipated that different SAMs – those terminated in different functional groups and even those bearing the same terminal group but supported on different metals – would induce oriented nucleation of calcite in different crystallographic directions.