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Open Access Resources for Crystallography Education in Interdisciplinary College Courses: Crystallographic Databases and 3D Printed Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2014

Peter Moeck ,
Jennifer Stone-Sundberg ,
Trevor J. Snyder  and
Werner Kaminsky
Peter Moeck
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A; pmoeck@pdx.edu; jls2@pdx.edu and jensundberg@comcast.net
Jennifer Stone-Sundberg
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A; pmoeck@pdx.edu; jls2@pdx.edu and jensundberg@comcast.net
Trevor J. Snyder
Affiliation:
Nano-Crystallography Group, Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751, U.S.A; pmoeck@pdx.edu; jls2@pdx.edu and jensundberg@comcast.net 3D Systems Corporation, Wilsonville, OR; Trevor.Snyder@3dsystems.com and tsnyder@pdx.edu
Werner Kaminsky
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington at Seattle; kaminsky@chem.washington.edu
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Abstract

Complementing a multitude of activities around the International Year of Crystallography, we report here on a few resources that are helpful for integrating basic crystallography into interdisciplinary college education. We concentrate on four resources with which we are directly involved. The Crystallography Open Database (COD) features currently more than 295,000 entries and has over the last decade developed into the world’s premier open-access source for the structures of small molecules and small to medium sized unit cell crystals. ‘Educational offshoots’ of the COD with approximately a thousand entries combined provide structural information on small molecules, selected macromolecules, crystal structures, grain boundaries, and crystal morphologies in the well documented Crystallographic Information Framework (CIF) file format. This information can be displayed interactively on the website http://nanocrystallography.research.pdx.edu and freely downloaded. Files that allow for the printing of selected database entries on any 3D printer have been added to this site and are also freely downloadable. These files were created with the programs Cif2VRML and WinXMorph that convert CIF files directly into 3D printing files. Interested college educators are invited to visit our open access crystallography resource portal and suggest other resources that should receive wider exposure over this portal.

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educationcrystallographic structurecrystal
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1716: Symposium FFF – Educating and Mentoring Young Materials Scientists for Career Development , 2014 , mrss14-1716-fff03-09
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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