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Extract coordination sphere from crystal structure
Yes, there is! Pymatgen is ideally suited for this task. Specifically, I highly recommend the local environment module. Given a CIF, you can calculate the coordination environment around a given atom ...
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How are the simulated powder diffraction patterns calculated in CCDC Mercury?
Program's website has this question in FAQ, but it doesn't provide an answer, only refers to a standard textbook.
The program doesn't use Debye's formula. This formula uses whole crystal (thousands or ...
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Extract coordination sphere from crystal structure
I don't think there is a predefined tool right away or at least I'm not aware of that, but this problem seems a pretty easy task to do with TCL in VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics) software. Basically ...
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