Stacking disorders in zeolites and open-frameworks - Structure elucidation and analysis by electron crystallography and X-ray diffraction

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-27

  Willhammar, Tom ^a   Zou, Xiaodong ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electron crystallography; Open frameworks; Stacking disorders; Structure analysis; Zeolites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875592457     PISSN: 00442968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2012.1564     Document Type: Review

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