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Freely Accessible Internet Resources for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Education and Research at Portland State University's Research Servers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Peter Moeck ,
Bjoern Seipel ,
Girish Upreti ,
Morgan Harvey  and
William Garrick
Peter Moeck
Affiliation:
pmoeck@pdx.edu, Portland State University, Physics, P.O. Box 751, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751, United States, 5037254227, 5037252815
Bjoern Seipel
Affiliation:
bseipel@pdx.edu, Portland State University, Physics, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751, United States
Girish Upreti
Affiliation:
girish@pdx.edu, Portland State University, Physics, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751, United States
Morgan Harvey
Affiliation:
consultants@pdx.edu, Portland State University, Academic & Research Computing for Instruction and Research Services, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751, United States
William Garrick
Affiliation:
will@pdx.edu, Portland State University, Academic & Research Computing for Instruction and Research Services, Portland, Oregon, 97207-0751, United States
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Abstract

Because a great deal of nanoscience and nanotechnology relies on crystalline nanometer sized or nanometer structured materials, crystallographers have to provide their specific contributions to the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Here we review two open access internet-based crystallographic databases, the Crystallography Open Database (COD) and the Nano-Crystallography Database (NCD), that store information in the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) format. Having more than ten thousand crystallographic data sets available on the internet in a standardized format allows for many kinds of internet-based crystallographic calculations and visualizations. Examples for this that are dealt with in this paper are interactive crystal structure visualizations in three dimensions (3D) and calculations of theoretical lattice-fringe fingerprint plots for the identification of unknown nanocrystals from their atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy images.

Keywords

crystaltransmission electron microscopy (TEM)scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM)
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 931: Symposium KK – Education in Nanoscience and Engineering , 2006 , 0931-KK01-04
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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