Crystal Chemistry

The course will provide the students with an overview of the modern methods for studying chemical bonding in solids with both experimental and theoretical approaches.

Competences in basic crystallography, included the ability of understanding and interpreting a single crystal X-ray diffraction pattern and judging the quality of a X-ray diffraction experiment; and in vector algebra in non-Cartesian systems. Besides, students will acquire knowldge of modern methods for the real-space study of chemical bonding in solids, with focus on topological analysis of the charge density according to the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules.