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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Direct methods are now used in a variety of cases: X-ray, neutron or electron data; single crystal and powder data; small molecules and macromolecules. While direct methods solved in practice the phase problem for small molecules, their application to macromolecules is recent and still undergoing development. This book describes the fundmental methods; in particular it is shown how the methods can be optimized for powder, neutron or electron data, and how they can be integrated with isomorphous replacement, molecular replacement and anomalous dispersion techniques. Maximum entropy methods are also described and discussed. Sets of test structures are used throughout the various chapters to verify the mathematical techniques and to provide practical examples. This book offers both a comprehensive description of direct methods in crystallography and an invaluable reference tool. The first three chapters provide an introduction to the field, with sufficient material to constitute a university course. Subsequent chapters are aimed at graduate students and working crystallographers. Basic results are described and discussed in the main body of the text, while the appendices complement these with in depth mathematical details. The quoted literature is extremely wide and the interested reader can find suggestions for future work and further reading throughout the book. ... Read more

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A must for direct method fans.
The book has a logical structure, goes into details and is clearly written. It provides a good starting point for every person interested in the theory behind direct- and related structure solving methods. Althoughthe layout (most notably figures) and the index are of lower quality, thebook on itself is a must. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The re-emergent field of quantitative electron crystallographyis described by some of its most eminent practitioners. They describethe theoretical framework for electron scattering, specimenpreparation, experimental techniques for optimum data collection, themethodology of structure analysis and refinement, and a range ofapplications to inorganic materials (including minerals), linearpolymers, small organic molecules (including those used in nonlinearoptical devices), incommensurately modulated structures (includingsuperconductors), alloys, and integral membrane proteins. Theconnection between electron crystallography and X-ray crystallographyis clearly defined, especially in the utilisation of the latestmethods for direct determination of crystallographic phases, as wellas the unique role of image analysis of high-resolution electronmicrographs for phase determination. Even the aspect of multiple beamdynamic diffraction (once dreaded because it was thought to precludeab initio analysis) is considered as a beneficial aid forsymmetry determination as well as the elucidation of crystallographicphases, and as a criterion for monitoring the progress of structurerefinement. Whereas other texts have hitherto preferentially dealtwith the analysis of electron diffraction and image data from thinorganic materials, this work discusses - with considerableoptimism - the prospects of looking at `harder' materials,composed of heavier atoms.
Audience: Could be used with profit as a graduate-level courseon electron crystallography. Researchers in the area will find astatement of current progress in the field. ... Read more

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The main theme of the book will be on the interactions of macromolecules and the consequences for biological function; lessons learned from the detailed study of the individual components will also be included. To bring together contributions of leading structural scientists who are addressing even more challenging problems, such as crystallization of membrane proteins, the structures of large assemblies of proteins, proteins and RNA, and proteins and DNA, and the structures of large viruses is also one of the aims of the book. In addition, advances in macromolecular crystallography have given us new eyes with which to look at biology and by working at the EM/Xray interface and by exploiting the potential of third generation synchrotron radiation sources with their extraordinarily bright beams for data collection from very small crystals new very important targets can be addressed.Te book should also give the flavour of this new frontiers. ... Read more

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Due to its interdisciplinary nature, crystallography is of major importance to a wide range of scientific disciplines including physics, chemistry, molecular biology, materials science and mineralogy. However, information is currently divided amongst traditional physics, chemistry and materials science books. This book collates previously disparate literature into one comprehensive and practical source, providing a thorough understanding of the information contained in crystallographic data files and the application of x-ray diffraction methods. The book has been written for final year and postgraduate students. ... Read more