title: High-pressure crystallography of periodic and aperiodic crystals.
abstract: More than five decades have passed since the first single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments at high pressure were performed. These studies were applied historically to geochemical processes occurring in the Earth and other planets, but high-pressure crystallography has spread across different fields of science including chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and pharmacy. With each passing year, high-pressure studies have become more precise and comprehensive because of the development of instrumentation and software, and the systems investigated have also become more complicated. Starting with crystals of simple minerals and inorganic compounds, the interests of researchers have shifted to complicated metal-organic frameworks, aperiodic crystals and quasicrystals, molecular crystals, and even proteins and viruses. Inspired by contributions to the microsymposium 'High-Pressure Crystallography of Periodic and Aperiodic Crystals' presented at the 23rd IUCr Congress and General Assembly, the authors have tried to summarize certain recent results of single-crystal studies of molecular and aperiodic structures under high pressure. While the selected contributions do not cover the whole spectrum of high-pressure research, they demonstrate the broad diversity of novel and fascinating results and may awaken the reader's interest in this topic.
authors: Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors: Clivia
authors: C
authors: Hejny
authors: Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 Kutateladze Street, Novosibirsk 630128, Russian Federation ; Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogov Street, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation.
authors: Vasily S
authors: VS
authors: Minkov
keywords: aperiodic crystals; high-pressure crystallography; incommensurate modulation; periodic crystals