Download or read book Aperiodic Crystals written by Ted Janssen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most materials and crystals have an atomic structure which is described by a regular stacking of a microscopic fundamental unit, the unit cell. However, there are also many well ordered materials without such a unit cell. This book deals with the structure determination and a discussion of the main special properties of these materials.