Additional Resources

Caltech Resources

• Cambridge Structure Database
• Caltech Library Guide by Donna Wrublewski

General Information

• General Information by Greg Girolami
• Crystallography Notes and Manuals from U of Oklahoma
• International Union of Crystallography, Core CIF dictionary

List of Crystallographic Databases

• Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Crystal Growth

• Crystal Growing tips from Dr. Dinger at UTRECHT University
• More crystal growing tips from Dr. Boyle at NCSU
• More crystal growing tips from MIT
• Crystallization techniques

Graphical Interfaces / Refinement Packages

• Olex2 by OlexSys
• ShelxLe by Christian Hübschle
• Wingx by Louis Farrugia
• Crystals by University of Oxford
• Jana by Institute of Physics
• X-Seed by Len Barbour

Visualization / Image Generation Programs

• Mercury by Cambridge Structure Database
• Diamond by Crystal Impact
• Ortep-3 by Louis Farrugia
• The Graphical Interfaces / Refinement Packages above can also be used to generate images.

Solution / Refinement Programs

• SHELX by George Sheldrick, tutorial
• Superflip by Lukas Palatinus
• SIR by Carmelo Giacovazzo

Structure Validation

• Platon by Ton Spek
• Checkcif by IUCr

Olex2 Manuals

• by Olex
• by Ilia Guzei
• by Amy Sargent
• by Carla Slebodnick

Symmetry

• Symmetry Gallery at Otterbien
• Crystal Symmetry Explorer at St. Olaf
• Escher Web Sketch at The Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology (EPFL)
• Space Groups at Université du Maine
• Medium Resolution Space Groups from Birkbeck College

Reciprocal Lattice

• Ewald Sphere and Reciprocal lattice from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Ewald Sphere by Len Barbour