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Three-Dimensional Printing of Ellipsoidal Structures Using Mercury

14 November 2017, Version 1
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Abstract

A description of how to use the Mercury software from the CCDC to print 3-dimensional crystal structures that depict the anisotropic displacement parameters, matching the commonly used ellipsoidal depiction used in scientific papers. Details on how to convert a cif file into a 3D printing data file is included in the main paper, and details on the preparation of that data file for printing on a number of different 3D printers is included in the ESI.

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crystallography techniques
3D printing
Crystallographic Education
Crystallography
Chemistry

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Three-dimensional printing of ellipsoidal structures using Mercury [opens in a new tab]
Matthew L. Brown, Ken Van Wieren, Hamel N. Tailor, David Hartling, Anthony Jean, Nabyl Merbouh journal article
CrystEngComm , Volume 20, Issue 3
Online publication date: 2018

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv.5592715.v1
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv.5592715.v1 [opens in a new tab]

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