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
• Modeling Macromolecules by R. Harrison
• The Principles of Protein Structure Using the Internet, Dept. Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

Crystal Growth

• Growing Crystals by P. D. Boyle.
• Crystal Growth, Selection and Mounting by Doug Powell.
• 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.
• An Interactive Course on Symmetry and Analysis of Crystal Structure by Diffraction by G. Chapuis and W. Hardecker
• 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
• Strategies in Structure Determination from Powder Data by A. Le Bail
• Crystallography 101, An Introductory Course by Bernhard Rupp
• 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

• Atomic packing and Crystal Structure Tutorial.
• Basic Crystallography Diagrams by B. Craig Taverner
• HighTc Super conductors, Nano Tubes, Nano Cones by Stefan Weber.
• Close-packed structures. by P. Krishna and D. Pandey
• Picture gallery of Quartz crystals by J. P. Schomer
• 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

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
• http://perso.wanadoofr/jean-pierre.lauriat Cristallographie et Diffraction des Rayonnements (french).
• Interactive Structure Factor Tutorial by K. Cowtan teaches about structure factors, phases, symmetry, and the relationship between the structure factors and the electron density map.
• 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
• Bragg's Law and Diffraction: by K. Lukin. How waves reveal the atomic structure of crystals
• 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
• Fourier Transforms by K. Cowtan. A book of pictorial 2-D Fourier Transforms
• Optical Transforms from T. R. Welberry
• Reflection High Energy Electron Difraction (RHEED) on silicon.

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

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.
• Interactive Structure Factor Tutorial by K. Cowtan teaches about structure factors, phases, symmetry, and the relationship between the structure factors and the electron density map.
• 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
• BCA Educational Software Survey
• Crystallographic ERASMUS network - CENET - H. Schenk

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
• Strategies in Structure Determination from Powder Data by A. Le Bail

Symmetry

• Basic Crystallography Diagrams by B. C. Taverner
• Discovering Symmetry by W. Hardecker and G. Chapuis
• An Interactive Course on Symmetry and Analysis of Crystal Structure by Diffraction by G. Chapuis and W. Hardecker
• Pepinsky's Machine by N. M. Glykos, a research tool to permit the systematic calculation of permutation syntheses for all centrosymmetric plane groups.
• Interactive Structure Factor Tutorial by K. Cowtan teaches about structure factors, phases, symmetry, and the relationship between the structure factors and the electron density map.
• Symétrie des figures périodiques by H. Schenk. Translation in French of a programmed course on periodicity and symmetry.
• 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
• Metric Tensor and Symmetry Operations in Crystallography. by G. Rigault
• Symmetry. by L. S. Dent Glasser
• Space Group Patterns. by W. M. Meier
• Escher Web Sketch by W. Hardecker and G. Chapuis. A program for drawing 2D periodic patterns with a W3 browser.
• 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
• The Point Group Tutorial is a multimedia program designed to help students identify symmetry elements and assign point groups to molecules. The program includes example molecules for each point group and an interactive tutorial based on the traditional flow-chart method for assigning point groups.