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November 2002 issue
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All homogeneous sphere packings with triclinic symmetry have been derived by studying Wyckoff positions P 1a and P 2i.
Atom positions and anisotropic Debye–Waller factors of the rhombohedral phase of LaCrO3 have been refined simultaneously with the low-order structure factors for the first time, using the structure analysis method of convergent-beam electron diffraction (CBED).
An evolutionary algorithm for the determination and refinement of disordered crystal structures is presented and applied to a real world problem.
The leading asymptotic term of the three-dimensional form factor of a homogeneous, finite, smooth, strictly convex and centrosymmetric particle uniquely determines the form of the latter.
Direct-method-aided MIR phasing (DMIR) has been proposed based on the direct method of breaking the phase ambiguity intrinsic in protein SIR data.
The article presents the distinction between the extinction effect and the Borrmann effect on the basis of the X-ray resonant dynamical theory and also discusses the complex dispersion surface.
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A new type of constraint is proposed for use in the maximum-entropy method. It leads to much reduced artifacts in the reconstructed electron-density maps. Tests are performed with simulated data for oxalic acid dihydrate.
A rule is given to efficiently calculate molecular scattering factors and crystal structure factors by fast Fourier transform techniques.
An algorithm for computing the discrete Fourier transform of data with threefold symmetry axes is presented. This algorithm is straightforward and easily implemented. It reduces the computational complexity of such a Fourier transform by a factor of 3.
Low-dose, low-temperature convergent-beam electron diffraction (CBED) patterns from thin organic crystalline films have been used for measurement of structure-factor amplitudes and phases. CBED patterns from thicker regions affected by multiple scattering give structure-factor signs, which are varied for best fit.
SIR–MIR and SIRAS–MIRAS cases are studied via the method of joint probability distribution functions.
An automatic procedure for solving protein structures via direct methods applied to SIR–MIR and SIRAS–MIRAS cases is described
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Specific symbols for R-irreducible groups in 4 and higher dimensions, centrings, Bravais classes, arithmetic crystal classes and space groups (space-group types) are recommended by the Subcommittee on the Nomenclature of n-Dimensional Crystallography in this Second Report. The relationship with higher-dimensional crystallographic groups used in the description of aperiodic crystals is briefly discussed.
short communications
A real crystal octahedron is defined as any polyhedron bounded, at least, by some of four pairs of parallel planes being in a standard crystallographic orientation with arbitrary distances between them. All the combinatorially non-equivalent shapes (30 in total) are found and characterized by 2-subordination symbols, automorphism group orders and symmetry point groups. The results are discussed with respect to the diamond crystal morphology.
international union of crystallography
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