Crystallographic Education Online

Aperiodic Crystallography

• QuasiTiler 3.0 by Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. QuasiTiler draws Penrose tilings and their generalizations.

Applied Crystallography

• The Study of Metals and Alloys by X-ray Powder Diffraction Methods. by H. Lipson

Biological Structures

• Integrating biocrystallography into traditional biology and chemistry curricula by M. Jaskólski
• Advanced Certificate in Protein Crystallography on the Web, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
• The Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

Crystal Growth

• Growing Crystals by P. D. Boyle.
• Crystallographic CourseWare by M. E. Kastner - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
• Growing Crystalline Trees , by Harry Bhadeshia, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Crystal-structure Analysis

• Integrating biocrystallography into traditional biology and chemistry curricula by M. Jaskólski
• Basic crystallography for students in materials science at Jena, Weimar and Ilmenau, Germany.
• Internet course: Learn how to succeed in a Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry (SDPD) with the help of experts by the University of Maine (France)
• An introduction to the scope, potential and applications of X-ray analysis. by M. Laing
• Crystal structure analysis using the `superposition' - and `complementary' - structures. by L. Höhne and L. Kutchabsky
• An Introduction to Direct Methods. The Most Important Phase Relationships and their Application in Solving the Phase Problem. by H. Schenk
• Difference Patterson Tutorial by C. Brenner
• XRayView by W. M. Keck - a Teaching Aid for X-ray Crystallography
• Various teaching material is available at http://www.as.ysu.edu/~adhunter/Teaching/Chem832/index.html or at http://www.as.ysu.edu/~adhunter/YSUSC/index.html prepared by A. D. Hunter. This includes a student friendly lab manual on using the SHELXTL (and to a lesser extent SHELX) package of single crystal programs to solve routine crystal structures.
• Webmineral A mineralogical database and also a basic course on crystallography.

Crystals and their Structures

• Escher Web Sketch by Nicolas Schoeni, Wes Hardaker and Gervais Chapuis
• Initiation to the discovery of point group symmetry operations by Wes Hardaker and Gervais Chapui
• Atomic packing and Crystal Structure Tutorial.
• Basic Crystallography Diagrams by B. Craig Taverner
• Close-packed structures. by P. Krishna and D. Pandey
• Crystallographic Topology 101, a tutorial by C. K. Johnson, The Topology of Crystallographic Groups and Simple Crystal Structures
• Polymorf.Numerous models built with Polymorf demonstrate the lattice structure, polyhedral framework, and crystal habit.
• X-ray interactions with matter by Eric Gullikson
• Crystal0graph, an interactive applet for drawing crystal structures by Nicolas Schoeni and Gervais Chapuis

Diffraction

• Basic Crystallography Diagrams by B. Craig Taverner
• An Interactive Course on Symmetry and Analysis of Crystal Structure by Diffraction by G. Chapuis and W. Hardecker
• X-ray Diffraction Simulators: 2D X-ray Diffraction Simulator and 3D X-ray Diffraction Simulator by Marc De Graef.
• A non-mathematical introduction to X-ray diffraction. by C. A. Taylor
• Introduction to the Calculation of Structure Factors. by S. C. Wallwork
• The Reciprocal Lattice. by A. Authier
• Anomalous Dispersion of X-rays in Crystallography. by S. Caticha-Ellis
• Elementary X-Ray Diffraction for Biologists. by Jenny P. Glusker
• Crystallographic CourseWare by M. E. Kastner - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
• Teaching guide for X-Ray and neutron diffraction by R. B. Neder and Th. Proffen
• X-ray anomalous scattering by E. A. Merritt
• XRayView by W. M. Keck - a Teaching Aid for X-ray Crystallography
• Optical Transforms from T. R. Welberry
• Cristallographie - Diffraction - J-P Lauriat

Distance Teaching

• QTA Internet Course Learn how to Quantitatively Determine the Crystallographic Texture of materials using x-ray and neutron diffraction by D. Chateigner and A. Jouanneaux
• Cost estimates for a distance-teaching course in crystallography by A. Le Bail
• Advanced Certificate in Powder Diffraction on the Web, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Internet course: Learn how to succeed in a Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry (SDPD) with the help of experts by the University of Maine (France)
• Advanced Certificate in Protein Crystallography on the Web, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
• The Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
• e-Crystallography course, Gervais Chapuis, Laboratoire de Cristallographie, EPFL.

Literature Publications

• Integrating biocrystallography into traditional biology and chemistry curricula by M. Jaskólski. J. Appl. Cryst. (2001). 34, 371-374.
• An introductory exercise in Fourier synthesis and structure-factor calculation for undergraduates, using an EXCEL workbook by M. R. Taylor. J. Appl. Cryst. (2000). 33, 975-976.
• Crystallization bench by B. Cabric and T. Pavlovic. J. Appl. Cryst. (2000). 33, 387-388.
• Interactive Web-based tools for an introductory course in crystallography by G. Chapuis and W. Hardaker J. Appl. Cryst. (1999). 32, 1164-1168.
• Pepinsky's Machine: an interactive graphics-based Fourier synthesis program with applications in teaching and research by N. M. Glykos. J. Appl. Cryst. (1999). 32, 821-823.
• Crystallographic CourseWare by M. E. Kastner. J. Appl. Cryst. (1999). 32, 327-331.
• Peak Decomposition using Pearson Type VII Function by S. K. Gupta. J. Appl. Cryst. (1998). 31, 474-476.
• Introduction to crystallography: two-dimensional computer simulations by B. D. Hall and T. Stoto. J. Appl. Cryst. (1998). 31, 477-480.
• Teaching Diffraction with the Aid of Computer Simulations by R. B. Neder and Th. Proffen. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996). 29, 727-735.
• Derivation of the rotation matrix in general rectilinear systems by means of vector and matrix formalism by K. Stróz. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996). 29, 736-737.
• Optimized Schedule for Large Crystallography Meetings by Y. Le Page. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996). 29, 291-295.
• POLYNET - a teaching program for the plane crystallographic groups, for use on Apple Macintosh computers by S. G. Hoggar. J. Appl. Cryst. (1996). 28, 459.
• Three-dimensional periodicity and inversion axes in crystals by B. D. Sharma. J. Appl. Cryst. (1995). 28, 223.
• FOURDEM: a program written as an aid to teaching the elements of Fourier synthesis and other crystallographic concepts by T. R. Welberry and K. Owen. (1992). J. Appl. Cryst. (1992). 25, 443-447.

Mathematical Techniques

• Worked examples in the Geometry of Crystals (2nd Edition) by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia
• Crystallographic Teaching Fourier Map MS Excel Spreadsheets by Max Taylor. This includes Example Notes and spreadsheet for students based around a potassium bicarbonate example.
• Pepinsky's Machine by N. M. Glykos, a teaching aid to illustrate the principles and the application of the Fourier series in crystallography.
• Rotation Matrices and Translation Vectors in Crystallography. by S. Hovmöller
• Metric Tensor and Symmetry Operations in Crystallography. by G. Rigault
• The Stereographic Projection. by E. J. W. Whittaker
• Projections of Cubic Crystals. by Ian 0. Angell and Moreton Moore
• Transformée de Fourier by Y. Epelboin. A theoretical course on the Fourier transform and its computation.
• Interactive course on crystallographic calculations (in French) by Y. Epelboin. Reciprocal space, distance between planes...
• Crystallographic Topology 101, a tutorial by C. K. Johnson, The Topology of Crystallographic Groups and Simple Crystal Structures
• Statistical Descriptors in Crystallography - Reports of a working group appointed by the IUCr Nomenclature Committee

Organization

• Cost estimates for a distance-teaching course in crystallography by A. Le Bail

On-line Courses

• QTA Internet Course Learn how to Quantitatively Determine the Crystallographic Texture of materials using x-ray and neutron diffraction by D. Chateigner and A. Jouanneaux
• Advanced Certificate in Powder Diffraction on the Web, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Internet course: Learn how to succeed in a Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry (SDPD) with the help of experts by the University of Maine (France)
• Advanced Certificate in Protein Crystallography on the Web, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London
• The Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

Physical Properties

• An Introduction to Crystal Physics. by Ervin Hartmann

Powder Diffraction

• The number of good reflections in a powder pattern by D. S. Sivia.
• QTA Internet Course Learn how to Quantitatively Determine the Crystallographic Texture of materials using x-ray and neutron diffraction by D. Chateigner and A. Jouanneaux
• Advanced Certificate in Powder Diffraction on the Web, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Internet course: Learn how to succeed in a Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry (SDPD) with the help of experts by the University of Maine (France)
• The Study of Metals and Alloys by X-ray Powder Diffraction Methods. by H. Lipson
• Introduction to Neutron Powder Diffractometry. by E. Arzi
• The Rietveld Method by H. Rietveld

Symmetry

• An Interactive Course on Symmetry and Analysis of Crystal Structure by Diffraction by G. Chapuis and W. Hardecker
• Basic Crystallography Diagrams by B. C. Taverner
• Crystallographic CourseWare by M. E. Kastner - Instructions on growing single crystals, symmetry elements, plane groups, unit cell and asymmetric units, and reading the International Tables of Crystallography.
• Crystallographic Topology 101, a tutorial by C. K. Johnson, The Topology of Crystallographic Groups and Simple Crystal Structures
• Discovering Symmetry by W. Hardecker and G. Chapuis
• Escher Web Sketch by W. Hardecker and G. Chapuis. A program for drawing 2D periodic patterns with a W3 browser.
• Metric Tensor and Symmetry Operations in Crystallography. by G. Rigault
• Pepinsky's Machine by N. M. Glykos, a research tool to permit the systematic calculation of permutation syntheses for all centrosymmetric plane groups.
• Point groups and Bravais Lattices by Marc De Graef.
• Pourquoi les groupes de Symétrie en Cristallographie. by D. Weigel
• Rotation Matrices and Translation Vectors in Crystallography. by S. Hovmöller
• Symmetry. by L. S. Dent Glasser
• Symétrie des figures périodiques by H. Schenk. Translation in French of a programmed course on periodicity and symmetry.
• Space Group Patterns. by W. M. Meier
• Space group tutorial. By Jerry Jasinski and Bruce Foxman. Version 1.0 includes the monoclinic and triclinic groups, and later versions will go further.