Distinguished Professor Massimo Nespolo
Universite de Lorraine
Professor, Other
France
My co-authors include
Ernesto Estevez-Rams
Professor Leopoldo Suescun
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My Publications
Comment on the article The Cambridge Structural Database in chemical education: analysi...
Journal of Applied Crystallography
March 2021
Chapter about pyroxenes in the second edition of Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Geology
January 2021
Producing highly complicated materials. Nature does it better
Reports on Progress in Physics
July 2020
Crystal Structures. Patterns and Symmetry. By Michael O'Keeffe and Bruce G. Hyde. Dover...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
July 2020
Zero-obliquity twin lattice quasi-symmetry threefold twinning in 1-{(R)-1-[(3-oxo-2-iso...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
July 2020
Sets, Groups, and Mappings. An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics. By Andrew D. Hwang...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
May 2020
Editorial for the special issue Mathematical Crystallography 2019
Crystal Research and Technology
May 2020
Groupoid description of modular structures
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
April 2020
Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory. Approaches in Spectroscopy and Chemical Reactions....
Journal of Applied Crystallography
February 2020
Structural interpretation of a new twin in staurolite from Coray, Brittany, France
European Journal of Mineralogy
December 2019
Fat Chance! Probability from 0 to 1. By Benedict Gross, Joe Harris and Emily Riehl. Cam...
Journal of Applied Crystallography
November 2019
The Tricks of the Chameleon. Unexpected Symmetry of the Diffraction Pattern
Crystal Research and Technology
August 2019
The Japanese Pioneering Contribution to the Investigation of Modular Structures
Crystal Research and Technology
August 2019
A Brief Introduction to the Bilbao Crystallographic Server
Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
May 2019
The chromatic symmetry of twins and allotwins
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
April 2019
Crystal structure and XANES investigation of petzite, Ag3AuTe2
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
March 2019
Correcting a widespread confusion between different concepts in chemistry and materials...
Journal of Applied Crystallography
February 2019
A Guide to the Elements. Fourth Edition. By Albert Stwertka. Oxford University Press, 2...
Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry
January 2019
The correct symmetry of the six-fold twin in β-Ca11B2Si4O22
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
November 2018
Twinning in chalcostibite revisited
European Journal of Mineralogy
October 2018
Crystallographic shelves: space-group hierarchy explained
Journal of Applied Crystallography
September 2018
Plesiotwinsversusdiperiodic twins
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
July 2018
The rise and fall of Weber indices
Journal of Applied Crystallography
June 2018
A groupoid and graph-theoretical analysis of the biopyribole–palysepiole series
European Journal of Mineralogy
June 2018
Review of Jakub Plášil, Juraj Majzlan and Sergey Krivovichev (eds.) (2017) Mineralogica...
European Journal of Mineralogy
June 2018
Minerals and materials: building principles and applications: A special issue in honour...
European Journal of Mineralogy
June 2018
Structure Relations and Construction of Structural Models
Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
May 2018
Comment on the article `Protein crystal lattices are dynamic assemblies: the role of co...
IUCrJ
May 2018
Derivative structures based on the sphere packing
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
March 2018
Geometry of Crystals, Polycrystals, and Phase Transformations. By Harshad K. D. H. Bhad...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
March 2018
Comment on “An experimental study of symmetry lowering of analcime”
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
February 2018
Structural analysis of twins in feldspars. I. Carlsbad twinning
European Journal of Mineralogy
December 2017
Crystallographic rationale for the formation of twinned crystals
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
December 2017
Local structures of Ca, Ti, Fe in shergottite fusion glass
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
December 2017
Training course in symmetry and group theory in Japan
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
December 2017
Iron Metabolism. From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Consequences. Fourth Edition. By...
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
October 2017
Computational mechanics of Close Packed Structures with individual layer interaction
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
October 2017
Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis. By Barry Mazur and William Stein. Cambridge ...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
October 2017
Symmetry relationships between crystal structures. By Ulrich Müller. IUCr/Oxford Scienc...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
September 2017
Direction indices for crystal lattices
Journal of Applied Crystallography
August 2017
Modularity of crystal structures: a unifying model for the biopyribole–palysepiole series
European Journal of Mineralogy
June 2017
Comments on the article ‘Comparison of calculations for interplanar distances in a crys...
Crystallography Reviews
June 2017
Twinning in olivine group revisited
European Journal of Mineralogy
April 2017
The ash heap of crystallography: restoring forgotten basic knowledge. Corrigendum
Journal of Applied Crystallography
April 2017
International Tables for Crystallography, Volume A, Space-group symmetry. 6th edition. ...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
April 2017
Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine. Fifth Edition.By Barry Halliwell and John M. C. ...
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
March 2017
Metallomics. A Primer of Integrated Biometal Sciences. By Wolfgang Maret. Imperial Coll...
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
March 2017
Basic Elements of Crystallography. 2nd edition. By Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki and Teresa S...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
January 2017
Subgroups of Point and Space Groups
Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
January 2017
Hierarchy and Classification of Space Groups
Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
January 2017
About the Definition of Chirality
Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
January 2017
Miller Indices, Laue Indices and the Reflection Conditions
Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
January 2017
A practical approach to symmorphism
Crystal Research and Technology
August 2016
The crystallographic chameleon: when space groups change skin
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
July 2016
Pyrite. A Natural History of Fool's Gold. By David Rickard. Oxford University Press, 20...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
April 2016
Early Days of X-ray Crystallography. By André Authier. International Union of Crystallo...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
March 2016
The modular structure of pyroxenes
European Journal of Mineralogy
March 2016
CHARDI2015: charge distribution analysis of non-molecular structures
Journal of Applied Crystallography
February 2016
Crystallography and Mineralogy. By Kiyoshi Fujino. Ky\bf\overline oritsu, 2015. Hardcov...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
January 2016
Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details. IV. A new route to het...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
January 2016
X-Ray Crystallography. By Gregory S. Girolami. University Science Books, 2015. Pp. 500....
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
January 2016
Crystals, X-rays and Proteins. Comprehensive Protein Crystallography.By Dennis Sherwood...
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
January 2016
Unravelling the diffraction pattern of a twin. I. Fundamentals
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2016
Deciphering Hermann-Mauguin Symbols
Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
January 2016
The same once again please: a pedagogical introduction to normalizers
Journal of Applied Crystallography
November 2015
The ash heap of crystallography: restoring forgotten basic knowledge
Journal of Applied Crystallography
July 2015
A note about the notion of chirality
Crystal Research and Technology
April 2015
Application of the crystallographic orbit analysis to the study of twinned crystals. Th...
Crystal Research and Technology
March 2015
Symmetry of Crystals and Molecules. By Mark Ladd. Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
February 2015
Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details. III. Extension to desc...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials
February 2015
Twinning of aragonite – the crystallographic orbit and sectional layer group approach
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
January 2015
Tips and traps on crystal twinning: how to fully describe your twin
Crystal Research and Technology
January 2015
On the shoulder of giants
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2015
Structural rationale for the occurrence of the elbow twins in cassiterite and rutile
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences
January 2015
Effects of merohedric twinning on the diffraction pattern. Erratum and corrigenda
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
October 2014
The wingspan of mathematical crystallography
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
May 2014
The staurolite enigma solved
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
May 2014
Effects of merohedric twinning on the diffraction pattern
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
February 2014
Analysis of the structural continuity in twinned crystals in terms of pseudo-eigensymme...
IUCrJ
October 2013
Structural analysis of twinning: the example of melilite
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
August 2013
Twiny: from morphology to twin element andvice versa
Journal of Applied Crystallography
May 2013
Symmetry in crystallography, by Paolo Radaelli
Crystallography Reviews
July 2012
From patterns to space groups and the eigensymmetry of crystallographic orbits: a reint...
Journal of Applied Crystallography
June 2012
Structural relations and pseudosymmetries in the andorite homologous series
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences
January 2012
A survey of hybrid twins in silicate minerals
European Journal of Mineralogy
October 2011
5 M<SUB>3</SUB> ferriphlogopite from the Ruiz Peak (New Mexico, USA): First occurrence ...
European Journal of Mineralogy
October 2011
Structural modelling, refinement and possible formation mechanism of a 4<I>M</I><SUB>3<...
European Journal of Mineralogy
February 2011
The Bravais polar lattice as a didactic tool for diffraction beginners
Journal of Applied Crystallography
August 2010
A late Triassic 40Ar/39Ar age for the El Hammam high-REE fluorite deposit (Morocco): mi...
Mineralium Deposita
March 2010
Comments on the article ‘Macromolecular crystal twinning, lattice disorders and multipl...
Crystallography Reviews
October 2009
Non-MDO four-layer ferrophlogopite from Ruiz Peak (New Mexico)
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
August 2009
Investigation of the structure role in the formation of twins
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
August 2009
Bilbao Crystallographic Server: computer determination of non-characteristic orbits
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
August 2009
A survey of hybrid twins in non-silicate minerals
European Journal of Mineralogy
August 2009
Point groups in crystallography
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2009
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Nihon Kessho Gakkaishi
January 2009
About the concept and definition of “noncrystallographic symmetry”
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2008
Does mathematical crystallography still have a role in the XXI century?
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
December 2007
Overlooked problems in manifold twins: twin misfit in zero-obliquity TLQS twinning and ...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
April 2007
Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Charge Distribution of Na7As11O31: An Oxygen-Deficient...
ChemInform
November 2006
The derivation of twin laws in non-merohedric twins. Application to the analysis of hyb...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
August 2006
Synthesis, crystal structure and charge distribution of Na7As11O31: An oxygen-deficient...
Journal of Solid State Chemistry
August 2006
International School on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
March 2006
Editorial: Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2006
Geminography: the crystallography of twins
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2006
Hybrid twinning – a cooperative type of oriented crystal association
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2005
The oriented attachment mechanism in the formation of twins – a survey
European Journal of Mineralogy
June 2004
Twins vs. modular crystal structures
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2004
Twin point groups and the polychromatic symmetry of twins
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2004
Applied geminography – symmetry analysis of twinned crystals and definition of twinning...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
December 2003
Geminography — The science of twinning applied to the early-stage derivation of non-mer...
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2003
Re-Investigation of the Structure of 7Bi2O3 · 2WO3 by Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction
Crystal Research and Technology
April 2002
Re-Investigation of the Structure of 7Bi2O3 · 2WO3 by Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction
Crystal Research and Technology
April 2002
Apparent polytypism in the Ruiz Peak ferric phlogopite
European Journal of Mineralogy
November 2001
Effects of the stacking faults on the calculated electron density of mica polytypes - T...
European Journal of Mineralogy
November 2001
First structure determination of an MDO-2<I>O</I> mica polytype associated with a 1<I>M...
European Journal of Mineralogy
November 2001
Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details. II. Extension to hydro...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
September 2001
ChemInform Abstract: Crystal Structure and Charge Distribution of ErFeMnO4.
ChemInform
March 2001
Atomic structures of planar defects in oxybiotite
American Mineralogist
March 2001
Perturbative Theory of Mica Polytypism. Role of the M2 Layer in the Formation of Inhomo...
Clays and Clay Minerals
January 2001
Crystal structure of kristiansenite: a case of class IIB twinning by metric merohedry
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2001
Crystal structure and Charge Distribution of ErFeMnO4
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
December 2000
Crystal structure and charge distribution of YbFeMnO4
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
October 2000
Identification of two allotwins of mica polytypes in reciprocal space through the minim...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
August 2000
Twins and allotwins of basic mica polytypes: theoretical derivation and identification ...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
March 2000
Reinvestigation of the LuFeO3(ZnO)m Homologous Series: Insights from Charge Distributio...
Journal of Solid State Chemistry
February 2000
Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Charge Distribution of InGaZnO4. X-ray Diffraction Stu...
Crystal Research and Technology
February 2000
Twinning by syngonic and metric merohedry. Analysis, classification and effects on the ...
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 2000
Charge distribution as a tool to investigate structural details: meaning and applicatio...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
December 1999
A TEM study of long-period mica polytypes: determination of the stacking sequence of ox...
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science
August 1999
Periodic intensity distribution (PID) of mica polytypes: symbolism, structural model or...
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
July 1999
Analysis of family reflections of OD mica polytypes, and its application to twin identi...
Mineralogical Journal
January 1999
Inhomogeneous mica polytypes. 8-layer polytype of the 2M1 structural series determined ...
Mineralogical Journal
January 1999
First Occurrence of a Stacking Sequence including (±60°, 180°) Rotations in Mg-Rich Annite
Clays and Clay Minerals
January 1999
OD character and twinning – Selective merohedry in class II merohedric twins of OD poly...
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 1999
Plesiotwinning: oriented crystal associations based on a large coincidence-site lattice
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 1999
Allotwinning: oriented crystal association of polytypes – some warnings on consequences
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 1999
Representation of the Axial Settings of Mica Polytypes
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
May 1998
On the indexing of 3T mica polytype
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
January 1998
Composite twins of lM mica: derivation and identiffcation.
Mineralogical Journal
January 1997
Crystallography of mica polytypes