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Gervais Chapuis

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Incommensurately modulated crystalline phases are part of a more general family called aperiodic crystals. Their symmetry is treated within the theoretical framework of superspace groups that is a generalization of the 3D space groups that are used for con ...

Academic Press2024

An elementary treatment on the diffraction of crystalline structures

Gervais Chapuis

Although W. L. Bragg's law can be easily derived for beginners in the field of crystallography, its interpretation however seems to cause some difficulties which lies essentially in the relation between the concept of lattice planes and the unit cell const ...

2022

One-dimensional composite host-guest structure in BaVS3

László Forró, Gervais Chapuis, Alla Arakcheeva, Helmuth Berger, Philip Pattison, Neven Barisic

A detailed synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) study performed with a single crystal of BaVS3 (barium vanadium trisulfide) in the temperature range between 10 and 295 K is reported. Aside from the known tetragonal–orthorhombic (240 K) and orthorhombic–mono ...

2021

Producing highly complicated materials. Nature does it better

Gervais Chapuis

Through the years, mineralogical studies have produced a tremendous amount of data on the atomic arrangement and mineral properties. Quite often, structural analysis has led to elucidate the role played by minor components, giving interesting insights into ...

2020

Incommensurate atomic density waves in the high-pressure IVb phase of barium

Gervais Chapuis, Alla Arakcheeva, Philip Pattison, Vladimir Dmitriev

The host–guest structures of elements at high pressure discovered a decade ago still leave many open questions due to the lack of precise models based on full exploitation of the diffraction data. This concerns in particular Ba IV, which is stable in the r ...

Int Union Crystallography2017

Application of micro X-ray diffraction to investigate the reaction products formed by the alkali–silica reaction in concrete structures

Gervais Chapuis, Alla Arakcheeva, Philip Pattison

Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is one of the most important deterioration mechanisms in concrete leading to substantial damages of structures worldwide. Synchrotron-based micro-X-ray diffraction (micro-XRD) was employed to characterize the mineral phases for ...

Elsevier2016

Growth and Characterization of Centimeter-Sized Ba2LaFeNb4O15 Crystals from High-Temperature Solution under a Controlled Atmosphere

Gervais Chapuis, Kurt Schenk

Centimeter-sized single crystals of Ba2LaFeNb4O15 were grown from a high-temperature solution by using LiBO2 flux and a sealed platinum assembly. The obtained single crystals display the same physical properties as their ceramic counterparts. A frequency-d ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

The discovery of aperiodic crystals is perhaps one of the most important event which has changed our vision on crystalline architectures since the discovery of diffraction 100 years ago. It was the merit of a Dutch crystallographer, P.M. de Wolff, to inter ...

Springer2013

Cimetidine, C10H16N6S, form C: crystal structure and modelling of polytypes using the superspace approach

Gervais Chapuis, Alla Arakcheeva, Philip Pattison

An efficient method for modelling a polytypic family is presented with the example of cimetidine in the form C polymorph. The method exploits the (3 + 1)-dimensional superspace model, which is a powerful tool for the description, prediction and understandi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Synthesis, growth and characterization of 4-bromo-4′-nitrobenzylidene aniline (BNBA): a novel nonlinear optical material with a (3+1)-dimensional incommensurately modulated structure

Gervais Chapuis, Alla Arakcheeva, Philip Pattison

The organic nonlinear optical material of 4-bromo-4'-nitrobenzylidene aniline (BNBA, C13H9BrN2O2), a new derivative of benzylideneaniline family, was synthesized and purified by repeated recrystallization. Single crystals of BNBA were grown in acetone solv ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

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