Luca Bindi & Sergey V. Churakov 
Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography [PDF ebook] 

‘Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography’ presents a collection of review articles with the common topic: structural properties of minerals and synthetic analogues. It is a valuable resource for mineralogists, materials scientists, crystallographers, and earth scientists. This book includes:

• An introduction to the RRUFF database for structural, spectroscopic, and chemical mineral identification.


• A systematic evaluation of structural complexity of minerals.


• ab initio computer modelling of mineral surfaces.


• Natural quasicrystals of meteoritic origin.


• The potential role of terrestrial ringwoodite on the water content of the Earth»s mantle.


• Structural characterization of nanocrystalline bio-related minerals by electron-diffraction tomography.


• The uniqueness of mayenite-type compounds as minerals and high-tech ceramics.