Wide Range Solid Solutions with Composite Modulated Structures
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Published:2014-08-05
Issue:a1
Volume:70
Page:C168-C168
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ISSN:2053-2733
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Container-title:Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
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language:
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Short-container-title:Acta Cryst Sect A
Abstract
Systems that form modulated structures are a fascinating class of materials, which lack lattice periodicity but may still be perfectly long-range ordered [1]. Such systems exist across the whole range of chemical disciplines from organic conductors to high-Tc superconductors and minerals. The importance of modulated structures has been recognised, but there have been few systematic studies across composition ranges of wide-range solid solutions that form composite modulated structures. Such a systematic investigations further our understanding of crystal chemical and structural aspects of modulated structures as well as the reasons for their existence. Examples for such wide-range solid solutions will be presented, with structures investigated using X-ray and neutron powder diffraction as well as transmission electron microscopy.
Publisher
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science,Biochemistry,Structural Biology