Raju Baral, Jue Liu, Nan Huang, David Mandrus, Stuart Calder
{"title":"Understanding the local spin structure of MnPSe3 and MnPS3 through magnetic pair distribution function analysis","authors":"Raju Baral, Jue Liu, Nan Huang, David Mandrus, Stuart Calder","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323097486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323097486","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.29,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhili Yu, Muyuan Chen, Tong Huo, Steven J. Ludtke, Zhao Wang
{"title":"In situ structures of secretins from bacterial type II secretion system reveal their membrane interactions and translocation process","authors":"Zhili Yu, Muyuan Chen, Tong Huo, Steven J. Ludtke, Zhao Wang","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323099321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323099321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.29,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lawrence C Andrews, Herbert J Bernstein, Nicholas K Sauter
{"title":"Approximating lattice similarity.","authors":"Lawrence C Andrews, Herbert J Bernstein, Nicholas K Sauter","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323003200","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2053273323003200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A method is proposed for choosing unit cells for a group of crystals so that they all appear as nearly similar as possible to a selected cell. Related unit cells with varying cell parameters or indexed with different lattice centering can be accommodated.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"480-484"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483589/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10240947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perfect precise colorings of plane semiregular tilings.","authors":"Manuel Joseph C Loquias, Rovin B Santos","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323006630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273323006630","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A coloring of a planar semiregular tiling {cal T} is an assignment of a unique color to each tile of {cal T}. If G is the symmetry group of {cal T}, the coloring is said to be perfect if every element of G induces a permutation on the finite set of colors. If {cal T} is k-valent, then a coloring of {cal T} with k colors is said to be precise if no two tiles of {cal T} sharing the same vertex have the same color. In this work, perfect precise colorings are obtained for some families of k-valent semiregular tilings in the plane, where k ≤ 6.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"440-451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10158606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gergely Stomfai, Gergely Kovács, Benedek Nagy, Neşet Deniz Turgay, Béla Vizvári
{"title":"Distances in the face-centered cubic crystalline structure applying operational research.","authors":"Gergely Stomfai, Gergely Kovács, Benedek Nagy, Neşet Deniz Turgay, Béla Vizvári","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323004837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273323004837","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The f.c.c. (face-centered cubic) grid is the structure of many crystals and minerals. It consists of four cubic lattices. It is supposed that there are two types of steps between two grid points. It is possible to step to one of the nearest neighbors of the same cubic lattice (type 1) or to step to one of the nearest neighbors of another cubic lattice (type 2). Steps belonging to the same type have the same length (weight). However, the two types have different lengths and thus may have different weights. This paper discusses the minimal path between any two points of the f.c.c. grid. The minimal paths are explicitly given, i.e. to obtain a minimal path one is required to perform only O(1) computations. The mathematical problem can be the model of different spreading phenomena in crystals having the f.c.c. structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"452-462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10170156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patch frequencies in rhombic Penrose tilings.","authors":"Jan Mazáč","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323004990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273323004990","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This exposition presents an efficient algorithm for an exact calculation of patch frequencies for rhombic Penrose tilings. A construction of Penrose tilings via dualization is recalled and, by extending the known method for obtaining vertex configurations, the desired algorithm is obtained. It is then used to determine the frequencies of several particularly large patches which appear in the literature. An analogous approach works for a particular class of tilings and this is also explained in detail for the Ammann-Beenker tiling.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"399-411"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10186255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naga Vishnu Vardhan Mogili, Nathália Carolina Verissimo, A M Milinda Abeykoon, Emil S Bozin, Jefferson Bettini, Edson Roberto Leite, João Batista Souza Junior
{"title":"Background optimization of powder electron diffraction for implementation of the e-PDF technique and study of the local structure of iron oxide nanocrystals.","authors":"Naga Vishnu Vardhan Mogili, Nathália Carolina Verissimo, A M Milinda Abeykoon, Emil S Bozin, Jefferson Bettini, Edson Roberto Leite, João Batista Souza Junior","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323005107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273323005107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The local structural characterization of iron oxide nanoparticles is explored using a total scattering analysis method known as pair distribution function (PDF) (also known as reduced density function) analysis. The PDF profiles are derived from background-corrected powder electron diffraction patterns (the e-PDF technique). Due to the strong Coulombic interaction between the electron beam and the sample, electron diffraction generally leads to multiple scattering, causing redistribution of intensities towards higher scattering angles and an increased background in the diffraction profile. In addition to this, the electron-specimen interaction gives rise to an undesirable inelastic scattering signal that contributes primarily to the background. The present work demonstrates the efficacy of a pre-treatment of the underlying complex background function, which is a combination of both incoherent multiple and inelastic scatterings that cannot be identical for different electron beam energies. Therefore, two different background subtraction approaches are proposed for the electron diffraction patterns acquired at 80 kV and 300 kV beam energies. From the least-square refinement (small-box modelling), both approaches are found to be very promising, leading to a successful implementation of the e-PDF technique to study the local structure of the considered nanomaterial.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"412-426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10167564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combinatorial aspects of the Löwenstein avoidance rule. Part III: the relational system of configurations.","authors":"Montauban Moreira de Oliveira, Jean Guillaume Eon","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323006174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273323006174","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper introduces a new method of determining the independence ratio of periodic nets, based on the observation that, in any maximum independent set of the whole net, be it periodic or not, the vertices of every unit cell should constitute an independent set, called here a configuration. For 1-periodic graphs, a configuration digraph represents possible sequences of configurations of the unit cell along the periodic line. It is shown that maximum independent sets of the periodic graph are based on directed cycles with the largest ratio. In the case of 2-periodic nets, it is necessary to draw a different configuration digraph for each crystallographic direction defining a linkage between neighbouring cells, a concept known as a binary relational system. The two possible systems are analysed in this paper: overrightarrow{bf{sql}} is associated to nets displaying linkages between unit cells along the directions 10 and 01, and overrightarrow{bf{hxl}} is associated to nets also displaying linkages between cells along the direction 11. For both kinds of nets, a maximum independent set is obtained as a homomorphic image from overrightarrow{bf{sql}} or overrightarrow{bf{hxl}} to the respective configuration system. The method is illustrated with some of the 2-periodic nets listed on the Reticular Chemistry Structure Resource site; it is shown that it provides a rigorous solution to the case of the net sdh that was not satisfactorily solved in Part II [Moreira de Oliveira, de Abreu Mendes & Eon (2022). Acta Cryst. A78, 115-127]. The method is extended to relational systems based on non-translational symmetry operations. The successive steps are then summarized and a simple application to the 3-periodic net qtz is discussed; analysis of zeolites and aluminosilicates may proceed along the same lines. It is shown that the new method enables the analysis of disordered distributions in periodic nets.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"463-479"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10170157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Malak Khouchen, Paul Benjamin Klar, Hrushikesh Chintakindi, Ashwin Suresh, Lukas Palatinus
{"title":"Optimal estimated standard uncertainties of reflection intensities for kinematical refinement from 3D electron diffraction data.","authors":"Malak Khouchen, Paul Benjamin Klar, Hrushikesh Chintakindi, Ashwin Suresh, Lukas Palatinus","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323005053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273323005053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Estimating the error in the merged reflection intensities requires a full understanding of all the possible sources of error arising from the measurements. Most diffraction-spot integration methods focus mainly on errors arising from counting statistics for the estimation of uncertainties associated with the reflection intensities. This treatment may be incomplete and partly inadequate. In an attempt to fully understand and identify all the contributions to these errors, three methods are examined for the correction of estimated errors of reflection intensities in electron diffraction data. For a direct comparison, the three methods are applied to a set of organic and inorganic test cases. It is demonstrated that applying the corrections of a specific model that include terms dependent on the original uncertainty and the largest intensity of the symmetry-related reflections improves the overall structure quality of the given data set and improves the final R<sub>all</sub> factor. This error model is implemented in the data reduction software PETS2.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"427-439"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483590/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10176158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithms for magnetic symmetry operation search and identification of magnetic space group from magnetic crystal structure.","authors":"Kohei Shinohara, Atsushi Togo, Isao Tanaka","doi":"10.1107/S2053273323005016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053273323005016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A crystal symmetry search is crucial for computational crystallography and materials science. Although algorithms and implementations for the crystal symmetry search have been developed, their extension to magnetic space groups (MSGs) remains limited. In this paper, algorithms for determining magnetic symmetry operations of magnetic crystal structures, identifying magnetic space-group types of given MSGs, searching for transformations to a Belov-Neronova-Smirnova (BNS) setting, and symmetrizing the magnetic crystal structures using the MSGs are presented. The determination of magnetic symmetry operations is numerically stable and is implemented with minimal modifications from the existing crystal symmetry search. Magnetic space-group types and transformations to the BNS setting are identified by a two-step approach combining space-group-type identification and the use of affine normalizers. Point coordinates and magnetic moments of the magnetic crystal structures are symmetrized by projection operators for the MSGs. An implementation is distributed with a permissive free software license in spglib v2.0.2: https://github.com/spglib/spglib.</p>","PeriodicalId":106,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances","volume":"79 Pt 5","pages":"390-398"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483586/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10241965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}