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Topology dictionary (topoCIF) version 0.9.6

Category TOPOL_TILING

Parent category:
TOPOLOGY

Definition:

   
    The TOPOL_TILING category describes the natural tiling
    corresponding to the underlying net.  A tiling is a
    partition of crystal space using generalised polyhedra, and a
    natural tiling is one for which tiles are the smallest possible
    that conserve the full symmetry of the net and for which the
    faces are all locally strong rings. This means that there is no
    single largest face (face with the largest number of vertices)
    as such a face will be the sum of the other smaller faces.

    The tile signature contains the sizes of the tile faces and
    the number of faces of a given size in the tile.

    Reference: Blatov, V. A., Delgado-Friedrichs, O., O'Keeffe M. &
    Proserpio D. M. (2007). Acta Cryst. A63, 418-425,
    DOI:10.1107/S0108767307038287.

Category is of type Loop