Crystal Engineering: From Molecules and Crystals to Materials - NATO Science Series C 1999 edition

Marc Notes: Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affair Division.. Table of Contents: Preface; D. Braga, et al. 1. On the Concept of a Single Crystal in Biomineralization; L. Addadi, et al. 2. Introduction to Packing Patterns and Packing Energetics of Crystalline Self-Assembled Structures - Predicting Crystal Structures Using Kitaigorodskii's Aufbau Principle; J. Perlstein. 3. Molecule-Based Magnets; J. S. Miller, A. J. Epstein. 4. Structure Determination by Neutron and Synchroton X-Ray Scattering; H. Fuess. 5. Theory of Intermolecular Interactions; P. Pyykko. 6. Hydrogen-Bond Assisted Assembly of Organic and Organic-Inorganic Solids; C. B. Aakeroy, D. S. Leinen. 7. Secondary Bonding as a Potential Design Tool for Crystal Engineering; A. G. Orpen. 8. Molecular Packing in Liquids, Solutions, and Crystals: Acetic Acid as a Test Case; A. Gavezzotti. 9. Crystal Design From Molecular to Application Properties; P. Erk. 10. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Crystalline Inclusion Conpounds; L. R. Nassimbeni. 11. An Approach to the Crystal Engineering of Coordination Networks; M. W. Hosseini. 12. How to Look at Bonds in Extended Solids; M. J. Calhorda. 13. Diversity and Certainty - Database Research in Crystal Engineering; G. R. Desiraju. 14. The Development and Application of Knowledge-Based Approaches to Molecular Design; R. Taylor, et al. 15. Organic Materials for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics; C. Bosshard, et al. 16. Toward Crystal Design in Organic Conductors and Superconductors; U. Geiser. 17. Theoretical Prediction of Crystal Structures of Rigid Organic Molecules; D. E. Williams. 18. Rational Design of Polar Solids; B. Moulton, M. J. Zaworotko. 19. Energy Minimization as a Tool for Crystal Structure Determination of Industrial Pigments; M. U. Schmidt. 20. The Prediction and Production of Polarity in Crystalline Supramolecular Materials &endash; A General Principle of Polarity Formation; J. Hulliger, et al. 21. Molecular Magnetic Clusters: A Bridge Between Molecules and Classical Magnets; A. Caneschi, et al. 22. Modelling Hydrogen-Bonded Structures at Thermodynamical Transformations; A. Katrusiak. Discrete and Infinite Host Frameworks Based Upon Resorcin[4] Arenes by Design; L. R. MacGillivray. 24. Crystal Engineering: From Molecules and Crystals to Materials; D. Braga, F. Grepioni. 25. NMR and Crystallinity of Nanostructured Materials; P. Sozzani, et al. 26. Molecular-Ionic Halogenoantimonates and Bismuthates &endash; A Rich Family of Crystals Showing Attractive Properties; G. Bator, et al. 27. Thermochromism of Organic Crystals. A Crystallographic Study on N-Salicylideneanilines; K. Ogawa. 28. Crystal Engineering: Functionality and Aesthetics; C. V. K. Sharma."Brief Description: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Erice, Italy, 11-23 May 1999

Contributor Bio:  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. Clifford Geometric Algebras in Multilinear Algebra and Non-Euclidean Geometries.- Geometric algebra Projective Geometries; Affine and other geometries; Affine Geometry of pseudo-euclidean space; Conformal Geometry and the Horosphere; References. Content-Based Information Retrieval by Group Theoretical Methods.- Introduction; Motivating Examples; General Concept; Fault Tolerance.- Applications, Prototypes, and Test Results; Related Work and Future Research; References.- Four Problems in Radar.-Introduction; Radar Fundamentals; Radar Waveforms; Signal Processing; Space-Time Adaptive Processing; Four Problems in Radar; Conclusions. Introduction to Generalized Classical and Quantum Signal and System Theories on Groups and Hypergroups.-Generalized classical signal/system theory on hypergroups; Generalized quantum signal/system theory on hypergroups; Conclusion; References. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras in Robotics.- Introduction -- Rigid Body Motions; Lie Groups; Finite Screw Motions; Mechanical Joints; Invisible Motion and Gripping; Forward Kinematics; Lie Algebra; The Adjoint Representation; The Exponential Map Derivatives of Exponentials; Jacobians; Concluding Remarks; References. Quantum/Classical Interface: a Geometric Approach from the Classical Side.- Introduction Paravector Space as Spacetime; Eigenspinors; Spin; Dirac Equation; Bell's Theorem; Qubits and Entanglement; Conclusions; References. PONS, Reed-Muller Codes, and Group Algebras.- Introduction; Analytic Theory of One-Dimensional PONS (Welti); Shapiro Sequences, Reed-Muller Codes, and Functional Equations; Group Algebras; Reformulation of Classical PONS; Group Algebra of Classical PONS; GroupAlgebra Convolution; Splitting Sequences; Historical Appendix on PONS; References. Clifford Algebras as a Unified Language.- Introduction; Clifford algebras as models of physical spaces; Clifford Algebras as Models of Perceptual Multicolor Spaces; Hypercomplex-Valued invariants of nD multicolor images; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Recent Progress and Applications in Group FFTs.-Introduction; Finite group FFTs; FFTs for compact groups; Noncompact groups; References. Group Filters and Image Processing.- Introduction: Classical Digital Signal Processing; Abelian Group DSP; Nonabelian Groups; Examples; Group Transforms; Group Filters; Line-like Images; Acknowledgments; References. A Geometric Algebra Approach to Some Problems of Robot Vision.- Introduction; Local Analysis of Multi-dimensional Signals; Knowledge Based Neural Computing; Acknowledgments; References. Group Theory in Radar and Signal Processing.- Introduction; How a Radar Works; Representations; Representations and Radar; Ambiguity Functions; The Wide Band Case; References. Geometry of Paravector Space with Applications to Relativistic Physics.- Clifford Algebras in Physics; Paravector Space as Spacetime; Interpretation; Eigenspinors; Maxwell's Equation; Conclusions; References. A Unified Approach to Fourier-Clifford-Prometheus Transforms- Introduction; New construction of classical and multiparametric Prometheus transforms; PONS associated with Abelian groups; Fast Fourier-Prometheus Transforms; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Fast Color Wavelet Transforms.- Introduction; Color images; Color Wavelet-Haar-Prometheus transforms; Edge detection and compression of color images; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References. Selected Problems; Various Authors.- Transformations of Euclidean Space and Clifford Geometric; Algebra; References; On the Distribution of Kloosterman Sums on Polynomials over Quaternions; References; Harmonic Sliding Analysis Problems; References; Spectral Analysis under Conditions of Uncertainty; A Canonical Basis for Maximal Tori of the Reductive Centrizer of a Nilpotent Element; References; 6 The Quantum Chaos Conjecture References; Four Problems in Radar; Topic Index; Author IndexContributor Bio:  Braga, Dario Dario Braga is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bologna. He has published more than 300 papers in international journals and is the scientific editor of the RSC journal CrystEngComm. He has been awarded the Nasini Prize from the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Society of Chemistry and the FEDERCHIMICA prize from the Italian chemical industry. He is the current Director of the Collegio Superiore of the university of Bologna. Fabrizia Grepioni held an associate professorship position at the University of Sassari from 1998 to 2004, and is now Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bologna. She has published more than 200 papers in international journals and has won the Nasini Prize from the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Society of Chemistry.