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  1. Coincidence-site lattice investigation in the analysis of plesiotwinning. I. Theory

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, March 2026, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  2. Coincidence-site lattice investigation in the analysis of plesiotwinning. II. PLESIO software

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, March 2026, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  3. Cronstedtite from the Salsigne mine, France: its composition and wide range of polytypes, twins, and allotwins

    Article • Clays and Clay Minerals, January 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  4. Structural analysis of twins in feldspars. II. Albite-pericline twinning and the metric pseudo-symmetry of feldspar lattice

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  5. Symmetry Relationships between Crystal Structures. Second edition. By Ulrich Müller and Gemma de la Flor. IUCr/Oxford Science Publications, 2024. Pp. XVIII + 368. Price GBP 55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-285832-0

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, July 2025, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  6. Duality of spaces and the origin of integral reflection conditions

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, October 2024, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  7. Structural rationale for twinning in galena, and a possible relation with the lillianite homologous series – Revision 1

    Article • American Mineralogist, September 2024, Mineralogical Society of America

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  8. Basal twinning of Greenland corundum

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  9. Twinned crystals and how to describe them

    Article • Crystallography Reviews, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  10. Groupoid Analysis of Pyroxenes

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, December 2023, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  11. Molecular versus structural chirality

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, February 2023, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  12. Response to the comment on the article Symmetry and chirality in crystals

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, February 2023, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  13. Pyrite contact twins

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, January 2023, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  14. Framboids. By David Rickard. Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover, pp. xxv+334. Price GBP 64.00. ISBN ISBN 978019008 0112.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, July 2022, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  15. From bond strength to charge distribution: modern developments of the empirical analysis of crystal structures

    Article • Physical Sciences Reviews, June 2022, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  16. Diffraction enhancement of symmetry and modular structures

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, May 2022, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  17. Numerical Problems in Crystallography. By M. A. Wahab. Springer, 2021. Hardcover, pp. xv + 387. ISBN 9789811597534. Price EUR 83.19.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, January 2022, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  18. Symmetry and chirality in crystals

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, October 2021, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  19. Teaching Edition of International Tables for Crystallography: Crystallographic symmetry. Edited by Mois I. Aroyo. IUCr/Wiley, 2021. Softcover, pp. xii + 236. ISBN 978-0-470-97422-3. Price GBP 29.99.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, August 2021, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  20. Introduction to Crystallography. By Frank Hoffmann. Springer, 2020. Hardback, pp. x+309. Price GBP 59.99. ISBN 9783030351090.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, May 2021, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  21. Comment on the article The Cambridge Structural Database in chemical education: analysis of hydrogen-bonded networks in salts of hexaaqua metal ions with organic counter-ions

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, March 2021, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  22. Chapter about pyroxenes in the second edition of Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Geology

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  23. Producing highly complicated materials. Nature does it better

    Article • Reports on Progress in Physics, July 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo, Prof. Gervais Chapuis

  24. Crystal Structures. Patterns and Symmetry. By Michael O'Keeffe and Bruce G. Hyde. Dover, 2020. Paperback, pp. xvi+461. Price USD 39.95. ISBN 978-0-486-83654-6

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, July 2020, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  25. Zero-obliquity twin lattice quasi-symmetry threefold twinning in 1-{(R)-1-[(3-oxo-2-isoindolinoyl)methyl]-2-propenyl}-5-methyl-2,3-indolinedione

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, July 2020, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  26. Sets, Groups, and Mappings. An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics. By Andrew D. Hwang. American Mathematical Society, Pure and Applied Undergraduate Texts No. 39, 2019. Hardcover, pp. xv+304. Price USD 82.00. ISBN 9781470449322.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, May 2020, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  27. Editorial for the special issue Mathematical Crystallography 2019

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, May 2020, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  28. Groupoid description of modular structures

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, April 2020, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  29. Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory. Approaches in Spectroscopy and Chemical Reactions. By R. C. Maurya and J. M. Mir. De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xiv+464. Paperback, price EUR 81.95, USD 94.99, GBP 74.50. ISBN 9783110634969.

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, February 2020, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  30. Structural interpretation of a new twin in staurolite from Coray, Brittany, France

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, December 2019, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  31. Fat Chance! Probability from 0 to 1. By Benedict Gross, Joe Harris and Emily Riehl. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. Xi+200. Paperback price GBP 19.99, ISBN 9781108728188. Hardback price GBP 49.99, ISBN 9781108482967. Ebook price USD 21.00,...

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, November 2019, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  32. The Tricks of the Chameleon. Unexpected Symmetry of the Diffraction Pattern

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, August 2019, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  33. The Japanese Pioneering Contribution to the Investigation of Modular Structures

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, August 2019, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  34. A Brief Introduction to the Bilbao Crystallographic Server

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, May 2019, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  35. The chromatic symmetry of twins and allotwins

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, April 2019, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  36. Crystal structure and XANES investigation of petzite, Ag3AuTe2

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, March 2019, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  37. Correcting a widespread confusion between different concepts in chemistry and materials science

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, February 2019, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  38. A Guide to the Elements. Fourth Edition. By Albert Stwertka. Oxford University Press, 2018. Hardback, Pp. 263. Price GBP 38.99. ISBN 9780190682347. Paperback Price GBP 19.99. ISBN 9780190682354

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry, January 2019, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  39. Twinning in chalcostibite revisited

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, October 2018, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  40. Crystallographic shelves: space-group hierarchy explained

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, September 2018, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  41. Plesiotwinsversusdiperiodic twins

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, July 2018, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  42. The correct symmetry of the six-fold twin in β-Ca11B2Si4O22

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, June 2018, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  43. The rise and fall of Weber indices

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, June 2018, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  44. A groupoid and graph-theoretical analysis of the biopyribole–palysepiole series

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, June 2018, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  45. Review of Jakub Plášil, Juraj Majzlan and Sergey Krivovichev (eds.) (2017) Mineralogical Crystallography

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, June 2018, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  46. Minerals and materials: building principles and applications: A special issue in honour of Giovanni Ferraris and Stefano Merlino

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, June 2018, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  47. Structure Relations and Construction of Structural Models

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, May 2018, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  48. Comment on the article `Protein crystal lattices are dynamic assemblies: the role of conformational entropy in the protein condensed phase'

    Article • IUCrJ, May 2018, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  49. Geometry of Crystals, Polycrystals, and Phase Transformations. By Harshad K. D. H. Bhadeshia. CRC Press, 2018. Hardcover, Pp. xv + 251. Price GBP 37.59. ISBN 9781138070783.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, March 2018, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  50. Comment on “An experimental study of symmetry lowering of analcime”

    Article • Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  51. Derivative structures based on the sphere packing

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2018, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  52. Structural analysis of twins in feldspars. I. Carlsbad twinning

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, December 2017, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  53. Crystallographic rationale for the formation of twinned crystals

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, December 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  54. Local structures of Ca, Ti, Fe in shergottite fusion glass

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, December 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  55. Training course in symmetry and group theory in Japan

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, December 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  56. Iron Metabolism. From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Consequences. Fourth Edition. By Robert Crichton. Wiley, 2016. Pp. xviii + 556. Price GBP 135.00 EUR 162.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-118-92561-4

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, October 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  57. Computational mechanics of Close Packed Structures with individual layer interaction

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, October 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Ernesto Estevez-Rams, Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  58. Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis. By Barry Mazur and William Stein. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 142. Price GBP 17.99 (paperback). ISBN 9781107499430.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, October 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  59. Symmetry relationships between crystal structures. By Ulrich Müller. IUCr/Oxford Science Publications. 2017. Paperback Pp. 352. Price GBP 29.99. ISBN 9780198807209

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, September 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  60. Direction indices for crystal lattices

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, August 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  61. Modularity of crystal structures: a unifying model for the biopyribole–palysepiole series

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, June 2017, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  62. Comments on the article ‘Comparison of calculations for interplanar distances in a crystal lattice’, by Ying Liu, Yue Liu & Michael G. B. Drew

    Article • Crystallography Reviews, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  63. Twinning in olivine group revisited

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, April 2017, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  64. The ash heap of crystallography: restoring forgotten basic knowledge. Corrigendum

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, April 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  65. International Tables for Crystallography, Volume A, Space-group symmetry. 6th edition. Edited by Mois I. Aroyo. Wiley, 2016. Pp. xxi + 873. Price GBP 295.00, EUR 354.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-470-97423-0.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, April 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  66. Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine. Fifth Edition.By Barry Halliwell and John M. C. Gutteridge. Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxxviii + 905. Price GBP 70.00 (paperback, ISBN 9780198717485), GBP 125.00 (hardback, ISBN 9780198717478).

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, March 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  67. Metallomics. A Primer of Integrated Biometal Sciences. By Wolfgang Maret. Imperial College Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 141. Price GBP 30.00 (paperback, ISBN 978-1-78326-828-3), GBP 56.00 (hardback, ISBN 978-1-78326-827-6).

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, March 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  68. Basic Elements of Crystallography. 2nd edition. By Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki and Teresa Szwacka. Pan Stanford Publishing, 2016. Pp. x + 324. Price USD 79.95 (paperback). ISBN 9789814613576.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, January 2017, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  69. Subgroups of Point and Space Groups

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, January 2017, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  70. Hierarchy and Classification of Space Groups

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, January 2017, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  71. About the Definition of Chirality

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, January 2017, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  72. Miller Indices, Laue Indices and the Reflection Conditions

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, January 2017, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  73. A practical approach to symmorphism

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, August 2016, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  74. The crystallographic chameleon: when space groups change skin

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, July 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  75. Pyrite. A Natural History of Fool's Gold. By David Rickard. Oxford University Press, 2015. Hardback, XIX+297 pages, 4 colour plates. Price GBP 20.49. ISBN 9780190203672.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, April 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  76. Early Days of X-ray Crystallography. By André Authier. International Union of Crystallography/Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv + 441. Price (paperback) GBP 25.00. ISBN 978-0-19-875405-3.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, March 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  77. The modular structure of pyroxenes

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, March 2016, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  78. CHARDI2015: charge distribution analysis of non-molecular structures

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, February 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  79. Crystallography and Mineralogy. By Kiyoshi Fujino. Ky\bf\overline oritsu, 2015. Hardcover, X+180. Price Yen 3600. ISBN 978-4-320-04719-8.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, January 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  80. Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details. IV. A new route to heteroligand polyhedra

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, January 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  81. X-Ray Crystallography. By Gregory S. Girolami. University Science Books, 2015. Pp. 500. Price (hardcover) USD 88.00. ISBN 978-1-891389-77-1.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, January 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  82. Crystals, X-rays and Proteins. Comprehensive Protein Crystallography.By Dennis Sherwood and Jon Cooper. Oxford University Press, 2015 (paperback), ISBN 9780198726326, price GBP39.99

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, January 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  83. Unravelling the diffraction pattern of a twin. I. Fundamentals

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  84. Deciphering Hermann-Mauguin Symbols

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, January 2016, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  85. The same once again please: a pedagogical introduction to normalizers

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, November 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  86. The ash heap of crystallography: restoring forgotten basic knowledge

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, July 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  87. A note about the notion of chirality

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, April 2015, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  88. Application of the crystallographic orbit analysis to the study of twinned crystals. The example of marcasite

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, March 2015, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  89. Symmetry of Crystals and Molecules. By Mark Ladd. Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxi + 433. Price GBP 55.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-19-967088-8.

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, February 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  90. Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details. III. Extension to description in terms of anion-centred polyhedra

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, February 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  91. Twinning of aragonite – the crystallographic orbit and sectional layer group approach

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, January 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  92. Tips and traps on crystal twinning: how to fully describe your twin

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, January 2015, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  93. On the shoulder of giants

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  94. Structural rationale for the occurrence of the elbow twins in cassiterite and rutile

    Article • Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, January 2015, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  95. Effects of merohedric twinning on the diffraction pattern. Erratum and corrigenda

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, October 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  96. The wingspan of mathematical crystallography

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, May 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  97. The staurolite enigma solved

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, May 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  98. Effects of merohedric twinning on the diffraction pattern

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, February 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  99. Analysis of the structural continuity in twinned crystals in terms of pseudo-eigensymmetry of crystallographic orbits

    Article • IUCrJ, October 2013, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  100. Structural analysis of twinning: the example of melilite

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, August 2013, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  101. Twiny: from morphology to twin element andvice versa

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, May 2013, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  102. Symmetry in crystallography, by Paolo Radaelli

    Article • Crystallography Reviews, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  103. From patterns to space groups and the eigensymmetry of crystallographic orbits: a reinterpretation of some symmetry diagrams in IUCr Teaching Pamphlet No. 14

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, June 2012, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Leopoldo Suescun, Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  104. Structural relations and pseudosymmetries in the andorite homologous series

    Article • Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, January 2012, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  105. A survey of hybrid twins in silicate minerals

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, October 2011, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  106. 5 M3 ferriphlogopite from the Ruiz Peak (New Mexico, USA): First occurrence of a mica polytype with coexistence of M 1- and M 2-layers

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, October 2011, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  107. Structural modelling, refinement and possible formation mechanism of a 4M3 non-MDO ferriphlogopite (Ruiz Peak volcano)

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, February 2011, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  108. The Bravais polar lattice as a didactic tool for diffraction beginners

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, August 2010, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  109. A late Triassic 40Ar/39Ar age for the El Hammam high-REE fluorite deposit (Morocco): mineralization related to the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province?

    Article • Mineralium Deposita, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  110. Comments on the article ‘Macromolecular crystal twinning, lattice disorders and multiple crystals’, by John R. Helliwell

    Article • Crystallography Reviews, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  111. Non-MDO four-layer ferrophlogopite from Ruiz Peak (New Mexico)

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, August 2009, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  112. Investigation of the structure role in the formation of twins

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, August 2009, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  113. Bilbao Crystallographic Server: computer determination of non-characteristic orbits

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, August 2009, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  114. A survey of hybrid twins in non-silicate minerals

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, August 2009, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  115. Point groups in crystallography

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  116. ES

    Article • Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi, January 2009, The Crystallographic Society of Japan

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  117. About the concept and definition of “noncrystallographic symmetry”

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  118. Does mathematical crystallography still have a role in the XXI century?

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, December 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  119. Overlooked problems in manifold twins: twin misfit in zero-obliquity TLQS twinning and twin index calculation

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, April 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  120. Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Charge Distribution of Na7As11O31: An Oxygen-Deficient Layered Sodium Arsenate.

    Article • ChemInform, November 2006, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  121. The derivation of twin laws in non-merohedric twins. Application to the analysis of hybrid twins

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, August 2006, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  122. Synthesis, crystal structure and charge distribution of Na7As11O31: An oxygen-deficient layered sodium arsenate

    Article • Journal of Solid State Chemistry, August 2006, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  123. International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, March 2006, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  124. Editorial: Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2006, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  125. Geminography: the crystallography of twins

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2006, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  126. Hybrid twinning – a cooperative type of oriented crystal association

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  127. The oriented attachment mechanism in the formation of twins – a survey

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, June 2004, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  128. Twins vs. modular crystal structures

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2004, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  129. Twin point groups and the polychromatic symmetry of twins

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2004, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  130. Applied geminography – symmetry analysis of twinned crystals and definition of twinning by reticular polyholohedry

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, December 2003, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  131. Geminography — The science of twinning applied to the early-stage derivation of non-merohedric twin laws

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2003, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  132. Re-Investigation of the Structure of 7Bi2O3 · 2WO3 by Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, April 2002, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  133. Re-Investigation of the Structure of 7Bi2O3 · 2WO3 by Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, April 2002, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  134. Apparent polytypism in the Ruiz Peak ferric phlogopite

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, November 2001, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  135. Effects of the stacking faults on the calculated electron density of mica polytypes - The Ďurovič effect

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, November 2001, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  136. First structure determination of an MDO-2O mica polytype associated with a 1M polytype

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, November 2001, Schweizerbart

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  137. Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details. II. Extension to hydrogen bonds, distorted and hetero-ligand polyhedra

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, September 2001, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  138. ChemInform Abstract: Crystal Structure and Charge Distribution of ErFeMnO4.

    Article • ChemInform, March 2001, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  139. Atomic structures of planar defects in oxybiotite

    Article • American Mineralogist, March 2001, Mineralogical Society of America

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  140. Perturbative Theory of Mica Polytypism. Role of the M2 Layer in the Formation of Inhomogeneous Polytypes

    Article • Clays and Clay Minerals, January 2001, Clay Minerals Society

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  141. Crystal structure of kristiansenite: a case of class IIB twinning by metric merohedry

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2001, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  142. Crystal structure and Charge Distribution of ErFeMnO4

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, December 2000, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  143. Crystal structure and charge distribution of YbFeMnO4

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, October 2000, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  144. Identification of two allotwins of mica polytypes in reciprocal space through the minimal rhombus unit

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, August 2000, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  145. Twins and allotwins of basic mica polytypes: theoretical derivation and identification in the reciprocal space

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, March 2000, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  146. Reinvestigation of the LuFeO3(ZnO)m Homologous Series: Insights from Charge Distribution Analysis on the Effect of the Coordination Polyhedra Shape on the Cation Distribution

    Article • Journal of Solid State Chemistry, February 2000, Elsevier

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  147. Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Charge Distribution of InGaZnO4. X-ray Diffraction Study of 20kb Single Crystal and 50kb Twin by Reticular Merohedry

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, February 2000, Wiley

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  148. Twinning by syngonic and metric merohedry. Analysis, classification and effects on the diffraction pattern

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 2000, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  149. Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details: meaning and application to pyroxenes

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, December 1999, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  150. A TEM study of long-period mica polytypes: determination of the stacking sequence of oxybiotite by means of atomic resolution images and Periodic Intensity Distribution (PID)

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, August 1999, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  151. Periodic intensity distribution (PID) of mica polytypes: symbolism, structural model orientation and axial settings

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, July 1999, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  152. Analysis of family reflections of OD mica polytypes, and its application to twin identification

    Article • Mineralogical Journal, January 1999, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  153. Inhomogeneous mica polytypes. 8-layer polytype of the 2M1 structural series determined by the Periodic Intensity Distribution (PID) analysis of the X-ray diffraction pattern.

    Article • Mineralogical Journal, January 1999, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  154. First Occurrence of a Stacking Sequence including (±60°, 180°) Rotations in Mg-Rich Annite

    Article • Clays and Clay Minerals, January 1999, Clay Minerals Society

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  155. OD character and twinning – Selective merohedry in class II merohedric twins of OD polytypes

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  156. Plesiotwinning: oriented crystal associations based on a large coincidence-site lattice

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  157. Allotwinning: oriented crystal association of polytypes – some warnings on consequences

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  158. Representation of the Axial Settings of Mica Polytypes

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, May 1998, International Union of Crystallography

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  159. On the indexing of 3T mica polytype

    Article • Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, January 1998, De Gruyter

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  160. Composite twins of lM mica: derivation and identiffcation.

    Article • Mineralogical Journal, January 1997, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo

  161. Crystallography of mica polytypes

    Article • Mineralogical Society

    Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo