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Solid state chemistry Chapter 3
Concept of crystal lattices and units cell Seven basic crystal system Concept of Miller indices
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SOLID STATE Crystals Crystal structure basics unit cells symmetry
lattices Diffraction how and why - derivation
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Objectives By the end of this section you should:
be able to identify a unit cell in a symmetrical pattern know that there are 7 possible unit cell shapes Miller indices
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Why study crystal structures?
Why Solids? most elements solid at room temperature atoms in ~fixed position “simple” case - crystalline solid Crystal Structure Why study crystal structures? description of solid comparison with other similar materials - classification correlation with physical properties
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Crystals are everywhere!
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More crystals
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Early ideas Crystals are solid - but solids are not necessarily crystalline Crystals have symmetry (Kepler) and long range order Spheres and small shapes can be packed to produces regular shapes (Hooke, Hauy) ?
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Group discussion Kepler wondered why snowflakes have 6 corners, never 5 or 7. By considering the packing of polygons in 2 dimensions, demonstrate why pentagons and heptagons shouldn’t occur.
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Definitions 1. The unit cell
“The smallest repeat unit of a crystal structure, in 3D, which shows the full symmetry of the structure” The unit cell is a box with: 3 sides - a, b, c 3 angles - , ,
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Seven unit cell shapes
Cubic a=b=c ===90° Tetragonal a=bc ===90° Orthorhombic abc ===90° Monoclinic abc ==90°, 90° Triclinic abc 90° Hexagonal a=bc ==90°, =120° Rhombohedral a=b=c ==90° Think about the shapes that these define - look at the models provided.
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2D example - rocksalt (sodium chloride, NaCl)
We define lattice points ; these are points with identical environments
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Choice of origin is arbitrary - lattice points need not be atoms - but unit cell size should always be the same.
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This is also a unit cell - it doesn’t matter if you start from Na or Cl
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- or if you don’t start from an atom
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This is NOT a unit cell even though they are all the same - empty space is not allowed!
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In 2D, this IS a unit cell In 3D, it is NOT
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Summary All unit cells must be identical
Unit cells must link up - cannot have gaps between adjacent cells All unit cells must be identical Unit cells must show the full symmetry of the structure
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