External resources
A collection of databases, software, tutorials and other links I find useful.
Materials databases
- The Materials Project
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
- NIST
- Topological Materials Database
- Physical and Chemical Properties of Substances
Crystallography
- Space-Group Symmetry — International Tables for Crystallography, Volume A
- Crystallographic Space Group Diagrams and Tables — Birkbeck College, University of London
- Introduction to Powder Diffraction — Birkbeck College, University of London
- Bilbao Crystallographic Server
- Shannon Radii — R. Seshadri and R. Basu
- Bond Valence Parameters — IUCr & I. D. Brown, Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University
- XRD Conversion Tool — Gallixa
- 11-BM X-ray Absorption Calculator — Advanced Photon Source
- Neutron scattering lengths and cross sections — NIST Center for Neutron Research
Rietveld refinement and Topas
- Topas Wiki
- Setting up jEdit 5.5 for use with Topas
- Durham Topas Tutorials — University of Durham
- Powder Diffraction and Rietveld School — John Evans
Software
- VESTA — 3D visualization program for structural models, by JP Minerals
- Dysnomia — calculates electron and nuclear densities from observed structure factors by MEM
- PowderPlot — Java program for plotting powder patterns output by RIETAN-FP (*.itx / *.pat)
- McMaille Indexing Software
- Gnuplot — portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, Windows and macOS
Electrochemistry
- Standard Electrode Potentials
- Molecular Weight Calculator — Lenntech
- Periodic Table with Electronegativities
Spectroscopy
- NMR spectroscopy visualized
- NMR Frequency Tables — Bruker
- ICP Interactive Periodic Table — Inorganic Ventures
Laboratory technique
- The Schlenk Line Survival Guide
- An Illustrated Guide to Schlenk Line Techniques — A. M. Borys, Organometallics 42, 182–196 (2023)
Writing and figure preparation
- CAS Source Index (CASSI)
- Exporting high-resolution figures from PowerPoint
- ColorBrewer 2.0 — color advice for cartography
Four editorials by Jillian M. Buriak in Chemistry of Materials that are worth reading before you submit anything:
- Writing titles — Chem. Mater. 26, 3349–3350 (2014)
- Making TOC figures — Chem. Mater. 26, 1289–1290 (2014)
- Fonts for figures — Chem. Mater. 28, 689–690 (2016)
- Figure sizing — Chem. Mater. 29, 8021–8022 (2017)
YouTube and podcasts
- CrystalSymmetry — Frank Hoffmann
- Professor M does Science
- 3Blue1Brown
- Veritasium
- MΔTERIALISM — hosted by Andrew Falkowski and Professor Taylor Sparks
Just for fun
- A guide to the mural artworks of Santa Barbara
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Compound Interest: Chemistry Infographics — by Andy Brunning, University of Cambridge