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Equipotential Surfaces in Periodic Charge Distributions
Author(s) -
Mackay Alan Lindsay
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198808491
Subject(s) - equipotential , ionic bonding , charge (physics) , physics , ion , optics , materials science , quantum mechanics
A microcomputer is sufficient to calculate and display approximate equipotential surfaces in ionic crystals. It is necessary and, as could be shown, justified to consider only a few Fourier terms. Equipotential surfaces are helpful, for example, in understanding the principles of construction of ionic crystals and the role of electrostatic effects in protein structure.