Abstract
Many urgent problems of modern mineralogical crystallography, to which the papers of this thematic issue of the journal Kristallografiya (Crystallography Reports) are devoted, have been considered. It is shown how the use of advanced physicochemical methods enriches scientific concepts about the real structures of minerals and nature-like compounds, structural conditionality of their physical properties, forms of concentration of chemical elements in terrestrial shells, crystallogenesis conditions, structural transformations in deep geospheres, relationships between structure types, and their interpretations based on modern concepts.
Highlights
Many urgent problems of modern mineralogical crystallography, to which the papers of this thematic issue of the journal Kristallografiya (Crystallography Reports) are devoted, have been considered. It is shown how the use of advanced physicochemical methods enriches scientific concepts about the real structures of minerals and nature-like compounds, structural conditionality of their physical properties, forms of concentration of chemical elements in terrestrial shells, crystallogenesis conditions, structural transformations in deep geospheres, relationships between structure types, and their interpretations based on modern concepts
The results of the fundamental research in the field of mineralogical crystallography are of key importance for the development of the concepts about natural crystalline materials
It is not surprising that crystallography is included in the courses of most of Russian universities as an important component of physics, materials science, chemistry, and biology
Summary
Abstract—Many urgent problems of modern mineralogical crystallography, to which the papers of this thematic issue of the journal Kristallografiya (Crystallography Reports) are devoted, have been considered. Along with the broadening of possibilities for studying crystal structures of minerals, new approaches in understanding their constitution, nature of their technologically important properties, and crystallochemical features of crystallogenesis have been developed in the last decades. In this context, one should mention the concept of anion-centered complexes, many statements of which were developed by the researchers from the worldwide-known crystallographic school of St. Petersburg University [5].
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