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Links
Xtal-protocols
Manual with information about (membrane) protein crystallization for X-ray crystallography.
Structures of simple inorganic solids
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/icl/heyes/structure_of_solids/Strucsol.html
An overview of important crystal structures.
Snow Crystals
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
Information about the physics of snow crystals and snowflakes as well as the history of early scientific observations and photographs, how to take photos, preserving snow crystals, and unusual snowflakes.
SDPD Internet Course
http://www.cristal.org/course/
Commercial e-learning course teaching how to determine a crystal structure from powder diffraction data.
Protein crystallography
http://proteincrystallography.org/
Guide to the Protein crystallography, from Protein crystallization to Structure refinement.
Principles of Protein Structure '96
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS2/course/index.html
Index to course material.
MSU Chemistry: Crystallography Service
http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Facilities/Crystallography/crys_serv.shtml
Explains crystallography procedures and is primarily intended for internal users of their analysis facilities, as well as a reference for students carrying out the work.
Moving Crystallographic Instruction into the Digital Age
http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/crystallography/
Educational module for use by researchers, teachers and students, provided by Kent Ratajeski, University of West Georgia.
Kevin Cowtan's Picture Book of Fourier Transforms
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/fourier/fourier.html
For future crystallographers.
Introduction to Cubic Crystal Lattices
http://www.okstate.edu/jgelder/solstate.html
A site introducing the properties of crystals with a cubic unit cell.
Interactive Tutorial about Diffraction
http://www.lks.physik.uni-erlangen.de/diffraction/
A pictorial guide to using these techniques especially for working out structural information, largely through the use of illustrative examples.
Difference Patterson Tutorial
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~brenner/pr613.html
A step-by-step guide to solving these problems based on the use of an example.
Crystallography 101
http://www.ruppweb.org/Xray/101index.html
An Introductory Course by Bernhard Rupp.
Crystallization in Foods
http://www.chipsbooks.com/crysfood.htm
Contains the latest information on how and why crystals form in foods, and how this information can be used to control crystallization. General organization of Crystallization in Foods is set according to the steps that occur during crystallization.
Crystal Lattice Structures
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/
A list of the possible crystal lattice structures and coordinates of atoms in such crystals.
