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(formerly: Society of Crystallographers in Australia (SCA))

Educational Material

The SCANZ homepage is located at http://www.sca.asn.au

Crystallographic Educational Resources

For Primary and High School Students

Crystal Growing for Students
Kevin Cowtan's Book of Fourier - Includes
- Book of Crystallography
- Duck Tales and missing data
- A little Animal Magic and cross phasing
- Animal Liberation and free-sets

Crystallographic Resources

Teaching Guide: X-ray and Neutron Diffraction - Proffen and Neder - Includes
- Department of Crystallography, Wurzburg,Germany
- Basic examples
- Reciprocal space
- Convolution theorem
- Modification of a structure
- The crystallographic phase problem
- Solving a simple structure
- Anomalous scattering
- Powder diffraction
- Diffuse scattering & defect structures
Crystallography 101 - Includes
- Experimental Setup (Håkon Hope's Cryo-Notes)
- About Symmetry and Space Groups
- Structure Factors and Phase Problem
- Phasing Techniques
Growing Crystals
Software and On-Line Resources for Crystallography Education - Marcus R. Bond - Includes
- Crystallography under Linux
- Crystallography under DOS
- Instructional X-ray Data Sets
Kevin Cowtan's Book of Fourier - Includes
- Book of Crystallography
- Duck Tales and missing data
- A little Animal Magic and cross phasing
- Animal Liberation and free-sets
Strategies in Structure Determinations from Powder Data - Armel LeBail (Under Construction) - Includes
- First routine contact with a material a priori unknown
- Materials unidentified by the routine approach
- The structure determination from powder data is decided
- Trends in structure determination from powder data in February 1997
- Alternative when no crystal of suitable size is available?
Crystallographic Topology 101 - Carroll K. Johnson and Michael N. Burnett - Includes
- Introduction to Orbifolds
- Introduction to Critical Nets
- Critical Nets on Orbifolds
- Lattice Complexes on Critical Nets on Orbifolds
- Cubic Space Group / Subgroup Families
Fundamentals of powder diffraction - Includes
- Web Accessible Diffractometer Homepage
- GeoGarden
X-Ray diffraction education from UCSD, San Diego - Includes
- Introduction to Diffraction
- How Diffraction Works
- Crystals
- Other Techniques in Diffraction
Spectroscopy education from UCSD, San Diego - Includes
- Introduction to Spectroscopy and Polarization
- Light Absorption
- Molecular Wavefunction
- Relating Spectroscopy to the Wavefunction
- Spectroscopic Effects
- Types of Spectroscopy
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
The Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet - Includes
- Brookhaven Mirror
- Course Material
- Noticeboard
- Assignments
- Technology
- Discussion Lists
- Participants
- Glossary
Protein Crystallography WWW Software Services - Includes
- The Java Lattice
- Crystal Packing Virtual Reality
- XPLOR GUI - The CGI Approach
- Symmetry Equivalent Positions Generator
Cryocrystallography video - The Application of Low Temperature Crystallographic Techniques
- Web site promoting 43 minute video (includes MPEG movie clips)
- Production of Freezing Equipment
- Liquid Nitrogen and Cryostats
- Preparation of Crystals for Freezing
- Freezing the Crystals
- Storing Frozen Crystals
- Assessing the Effectiveness of the Freeze
- Examples of Data
- Credits and References
High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Tutorial Paul A. Heiney, University of Pennsylvania - Includes -
- Introduction
- Other Links
- What is X-ray diffraction (XRD)
- X-ray Sources
- Instrumentation for XRD: Diffractometers and Detectors
- Case Studies
- Examples of Data
- Credits and References
Computational Techniques in Crystallography Lecture Course by H. D. Flack, University of Geneva - Includes -
- Minimization techniques for experimental data
- Modelling of experimental data
- Statistical descriptors
- Diffractometry
- Electron-density calculations
- Geometry and lattice calculations
- Informatics
- Higher-dimensional crystallography
- Treatment of non-centrosymmetric structures
- Supplementary Material
Stefan Weber's Quasicrystal Homepage - Including DOS based Software
Ron Lifshitz's Quasi Crystals Web Page at Caltech
Crystallographic Nexus - Free Virtual Internet/Virtual World Wide Web on CD-ROM for the remote crystallographer

Please feel free to send any queries, comments or suggestions to: bws@crystal.uwa.edu.au