Taxonomy of periodic nets and the design of materials.
The concept of a natural tiling for a periodic net is introduced and used to derive a transitivity associated with the structure. It is accordingly shown that the transitivity provides a useful method of classifying polyhedra and nets. For design of materials to serve as targets for synthesis, structures with one kind of edge (edge transitive) are particularly important. Edge-transitive polyhedra, layers and 3-periodic nets are then described. Some other nets of special importance in crystal chemistry are also identified.
Delgado-Friedrichs
Olaf
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
O'Keeffe
Michael
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Yaghi
Omar M
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D003460:Crystallization; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification*; D009626:Terminology as Topic
D009942:Organometallic Compounds