Section outline


  • 5.1. Crystalline, amorphous materials
         5.1.1. Unit cell
         5.1.2. Atomic Packing Factor (APF)
         5.1.3. Packing
    5.2. Metallic crystals
         5.2.1. Face Centered Cubic (FCC)
         5.2.2. Body Centered Cubic (BCC)
         5.2.3. Hexagonal close-packed (HCP)
    5.3. Ionic solids
         5.3.1. Ionic radius
         5.3.2. Packing
         5.3.3. Crystals of type AX
         5.3.4. Crystals of type ΑmΧp
         5.3.5. Crystals of type ΑmBnΧp
    5.4. Covalent solids
         5.4.1. Polymorphism - allotropes
    5.5. Crystal Lattice
         5.5.1. Crystal systems
              5.5.1.1. Cubic, hexagonal, square, rhombohedral, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic
         5.5.2. Crystallographic directions
         5.5.3. Crystallographic planes
    5.6. Structural analysis techniques
         5.6.1. X-ray Diffraction (XRD)