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James Tarpo Jr. and Margaret Tarpo
Department of Chemistry

Recommended Reading and XRD Literature

Introductory Texts:

If you are a novice, start with the Oxford Chemistry Primer by Bill Clegg (just 111 pages), for single crystal XRD, and with Michael Glazers short introduction, for general and powder XRD:

  • X-Ray Crystallography (Oxford Chemistry Primers), William Clegg. ISBN: 978-0198700975.
  • Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Illustrated Edition, A. M. Glazer. ISBN: 978-0198717591.

 

Single Crystal XRD, Other General Texts:

  • Crystal Structure Analysis, Principle and Practice (International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography 13), Blake, Clegg, Cole, Evans, Main, Parsons, Watkin, Editor William Clegg. ISBN: 978-0199219469.
  • Crystal Structure Analysis: A Primer (Oxford University Press). Jenny P. Glusker & Kenneth N. Trueblood. ISBN: 9780199576357.
  • The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (Oxford University Press). C. Hammond. ISBN: 978-0198738671.
  • Crystal Structure Determination (Springer, Berlin). W. Massa (translated by R. Gould). ISBN: 978-3540206446.

 

Single Crystal XRD, Structure Refinement:

  • Crystal Structure Refinement: A Crystallographer's Guide to SHELXL (International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography) Peter Müller, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Anthony L. Spek, Thomas Schneider, and Michael Sawaya. ISBN: 9780198570769.

 

Multicrystalline and Powder XRD:

  • X-Ray Diffraction (Dover Books on Physics), B. E. Warren. ISBN: 978-0486663173 (very affordable).
  • Powder Diffraction: Theory and Practice (RSC Publishing), Editors: R E Dinnebier, S J L Billinge, ISBN: 978-0-85404-231-9. Especially chapter 1.1 (Overview and principles of powder Diffraction)
  • Principles and Applications of Powder Diffraction 1st Edition (Blackwell Publishing), Abraham Clearfield, Joseph Reibenspies, Nattamai Bhuvanesh, ISBN: 978-1405162227.
  • Fundamentals of Powder Diffraction and Structural Characterization of Materials, 3rd edition (Springer), Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Peter Y. Zavalij. ISBN: 978-0387095783.
  • X-Ray Diffraction: In Crystals, Imperfect Crystals, and Amorphous Bodies (Dover Books on Physics), A. Guinier. ISBN: 978-0486680118 (very affordable)
  • Modern Powder Diffraction, eds. D. Bish & J. Post, Reviews in Mineralogy Vol. 20. Available from the Mineralogical Society of America, ISBN: 978-0-939950-24-9 (very affordable, but slightly dated (1989)).
  • Introduction to Crystallography (Dover Books on Chemistry) Reprint Edition, Donald E. Sands. ISBN: 978-0486678399

 

Multicrystalline and Powder XRD, Sample Preparation:

  • A practical guide for the preparation of specimens for X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction analysis (Wiley-VCH), V. E. Buhrke, R. Jenkins, D. K. Smith, ISBN: 978-0471194583.

 

Fundamental and Very Substantial Texts:

  • Fundamentals of Crystallography (International Union of Crystallography), C. Giacovazzo, H. L. Monaco, G. Artioli, D. Viterbo, M. Milanesio, G. Gilli, P. Gilli, G. Zanotti, G. Ferraris. ISBN: 978-0199573660.

 

Children's Books:

  • X-ray Crystallography Adventures! Cat & Elephant's Sugar Crystal Mystery. Written by Chantal E. Stieber with Justine Wong, Illustrations by Justine Wong. Meitnerium Press. ISBN: 979-8-9934836-0-3