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Frontispiece: Electron Density Studies in Materials Research
Author(s) -
Tolborg Kasper,
Iversen Bo B.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201986661
Subject(s) - observable , complementarity (molecular biology) , chemical bond , simple (philosophy) , strengths and weaknesses , density functional theory , statistical physics , chemical physics , computer science , nanotechnology , materials science , chemistry , computational chemistry , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , philosophy , genetics , biology
The structure and properties of materials are intimately related to their chemical bonding, which can be analyzed based on the experimentally observable electron density. This provides important understanding of materials beyond structure and simple chemical concepts. The complementarity between theory and experiment allows for mutual validation of new chemical bonding concepts, and indeed experiment and theory may challenge each other based on the different strengths and weaknesses. For more information see the Review article by K. Tolborg and B. B. Iversen on page 15010 ff.