Training courses on TOPOS

Forthcoming

Topological Crystal Chemistry: Theory and Practice (Nancy, France, 21 June - 2 July 2010)

Past

ICMR summer school on Periodic Structures and Crystal Chemistry (Santa Barbara, USA, July 27-August 9, 2008).

Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche (Milan, Italy, January 27-30, 2009).

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Announcement

What to do with new topologies?

Exploration of the crystal structure topology becomes more and more popular and researchers often encounter topologies not described in the TTD collection. How to designate them, how to refer to them and how to be sure that your colleagues will be advised about them? Here we announce a strategy to resolve these problems.

1. If you have found the message

in the ADS output please email a TOPOS database (*.adm, *.cd and *.cmp files) with this structure to

2. After checking the data we assign a code abcN to the topology, where abc is your three-letter personal identifier and N is the ordinal number of the topology you have discovered (e.g. smi12 that means '12th topology discovered by Smith'). If you have no identifier we will consult with you about its name.

3. The list of authors' personal identifiers together with contact information is available at the TOPOS website.

4. The novel topology will be included into the TTD collection and published in a two-week update of the personal.ttd database. Anyone who will download the database will be aware of the new topology.

5. If the topology will further be included into other databases it will get other names according to the nomenclatures described above, but the initial abcN name will be retained as a prove of priority.

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