The four-volume treatment Modern Crystallography presents an encyclopedic exposition of problems concerning the structure of crystals, their growth, and their properties. Structure of Crystals deals with crystal structures in inorganic and organic compounds, polymers, liquid crystals, biological crystals, and macromolecules.

Modern Crystallography provides an encyclopedic exposition of the field in four volumes written by Russian scientists. Structures of Crystals considers the ideal and real atomic structure of crystals as well as their electronic structures, the fundamentals of chemical bonding between atoms, geometric representations in the theory of crystal structure and crystal chemistry, as well as lattice energy. The important classes of crystal structures in inorganic compounds as well as structure polymers, liquid crystals, biological crystals, and macromolecules are treated. This second edition is complemented by recent data on many types of crystal structures - fullerenes, high-temperature superconductors, minerals, liquid crystals, etc.

1. Principles of Formation of the Atomic Structure of Crystals.- 2. Principal Types of Crystal Structures.- 3. Band Energy Structure of Crystals.- 4. Lattice Dynamics and Phase Transitions.- 5. The Structure of Real Crystals.- 6. Advances in Structural Crystallography.- References.