The primary goal of this review is to present a clear chemical perspective of borates in order
to stimulate and facilitate the discovery of new borate-based optical materials. These …

When variance is encountered in reticular structures such as metal–organic frameworks, it
occurs as multiple kinds of functionalities bound and distributed in aperiodic lattices. In these …

Inorganic oxide materials are used in semiconductor electronics, ion exchange, catalysis,
coatings, gas sensors and as separation materials. Although their synthesis is well …

The complexities of chemical composition and crystal structure are fundamental
characteristics of minerals that have high relevance to the understanding of their stability …

A systematic survey of 57 different paragenetic modes distributed among 5659 mineral
species reveals patterns in the diversity and distribution of minerals related to their evolving …

Using a statistical approach, it is demonstrated that the complexity of a crystal structure
measured as the Shannon information per atom [Krivovichev (2012). Acta Cryst. A68, 393 …

This paper is an overview of available data on crystal structures, crystal chemical features,
physical and chemical properties, and genesis of multilayer microporous compounds related …

One thing that discriminates living things from inanimate matter is their ability to generate
similarly complex or non-random structures in a large abundance. From DNA sequences to …

Zeolites are complex and porous crystalline inorganic materials that serve as hosts for a
variety of molecular, ionic and cluster species. Formal, machine-actionable representation of …

Most research on polyoxometalates (POMs) has been devoted to synthetic compounds.
However, recent mineralogical discoveries of POMs in mineral structures demonstrate their …