forthcoming articles

The following articles are a selection of those recently accepted for publication in Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances.

See also Forthcoming articles in all IUCr journals.

Accepted 18 June 2026

Graphs and Homomorphisms


Accepted 5 June 2026

Symmetric vertex- and edge-transitive 3-periodic nets

We show that most crystal structures found in nature correspond to symmetric or supersymmetric nets, which are tolerable (tessellate). Remarkably, we find only one reported structure based on a symmetric net that is decussate (untileable)

Accepted 3 June 2026

Origin and application of the Lorentz factor in X-ray diffraction

This review treats the role of the Lorentz factor in quantitative analysis of X-ray diffraction data. The origin of the Lorentz factor, its derivation and practical implementations for a variety of modern X-ray diffraction methods are discussed.

Accepted 28 May 2026

Case study of using the single-atom R1 method to solve a small protein structure

A small protein structure has been successfully solved by the single-atom R1 method after accounting for the hidden solvent diffraction effects.

Accepted 26 May 2026

Tiles from projections of the root and weight lattices of An

The 2D faces of the Voronoi cell of the lattice A4* are of two types: regular hexagons and squares in 4D, but project into two types of hexagons and two types of rhombuses with edges of two lengths in proportion to the golden ratio.


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