Cerius2 Builders


Index

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  L  M  P  R  S  T  U  W  Y  Z



2D-periodic structures 27
3D-periodic structures 5, 79

A

Add Atom control panel 12, 15, 33, 34
amides 83
AMORPHOUS BUILDER card 74
Amorphous Builder Clone control panel 82
Amorphous Builder control panel 77, 78, 88
Amorphous Builder module 73
Amorphous Builder Output control panel 78
Amorphous Builder Preferences control panel 78, 88
Amorphous Builder State Table control panel 85, 88
Amorphous Builder Torsions control panel 83, 84
amorphous structures 73
3D-periodic 75, 79
aborting a build 80
anomalous behavior during builds 84
building 74
building in general 78
building with default settings 77
bump checking 75, 78, 79
bump checking, hydrogens 79
cloning starting structures 82
display 81
finding unique rotatable torsions 84, 85
minimization conditions 81
minimizing 80
Monte Carlo method 75
nonperiodic 79
periodic density 78
relaxing 76, 80
repeated building attempts 76, 79
RIS methods 75
rotatable torsions 83
rotation methods 86
saving 81
simple build 77
starting a build 81
stopping a build 80
torsions 78, 83
torsions used during building 87
troubleshooting 80
unique torsions table 85
van der Waals scale 75
Amorphous Torsion Rules control panel 83
asymmetric unit 7
constructing 8
atoms
adding 14, 34
backbone 52, 68
converting symmetry copies into real 16
coordinates 42
deleting symmetry copies 19, 36
display 70
exact symmetry positions 24
groupings in polymers 69
names 83, 84
options 15, 34
removing 15, 18, 34
selecting in crystals 22, 23
superimposed 44

B

biphenyl 83
Block Copolymer Builder control panel 66
Block Copolymer control panel 59
Block Copolymer Preferences control panel 66
block copolymers 47, 66, 69
building 66, 68
composition 66
number of superunit blocks 67
preferences 67
superunit groupings 69
superunit size 67
bold type, meaning 3
bond arrays, sorting 84
bonds
automatic calculation 9, 31
crystals 9
dangling 43
interfaces 43
multiple 83
surfaces 30, 31
Bravais lattices 10
BUILDERS 1 card deck 7, 29, 38, 48, 74
Building From Atoms control panel 31, 33, 35, 36, 45

C

Cell Contents control panel 23
Cell Parameters control panel 9, 12
Cleave Crystal Surface control panel 29, 35
Convert Formats control panel 54
coordinate system 14
fixing 34
coordinates
Cartesian 14, 33
crsytal interfaces 39
fractional 14
orientation to computer screen 20
surface fractional 33
copolymers 47, 60, 66
Crystal Build Preferences control panel 8, 11, 12
CRYSTAL BUILDER card 7
Crystal Builder module 5
Crystal Building control panel 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 45
Crystal Facetting control panel 18, 22
Crystal Visualization control panel 17, 20, 21
crystals
accuracy of model 23
asymmetric unit 8
bonds 9
building 7
cell size and shape 9
cell volume 23
connectivity 10
constructing from atoms 12
creating from interfaces 38, 45
default orientation 20
defects 37
density 23
disorder 17
display 19
display range 19
display style 9, 11, 13
facetting 18, 22
faults 39
from surface 11
generating nonperiodic superstructures 16
generating superlattices 16, 17
habit planes 20
initial orientation 19
interfaces 37
lattice 10
Miller planes 20
nonperiodic model 17
number of displayed cells 20
polymer 6
polymers 56
redisplaying 12
reverting to nonperiodic asymmetric unit 19
sectioning 22
selecting atoms 22
simulations 5
structural relationships between particles 37
symmetry 9, 10, 12, 13
twinning 37, 39
unbuilding 19
unit cell, constructing 13
updating 12, 24
vacuum slab 11
vacuum thickness 11

D

Display Editor control panel 70
Display Preferences control panel 70

E

Edit Facet Options control panel 22
Edit Interface control panel 44
epitaxy 37

F

facets
adding 22
color and transparency 22
creating 22
crystal 22
displaying 22
editing 22
positioning 22
removing 23
files
2D unit cell information 28
Biograf 54
conversion 53
CSSR 28
example .ris 97
formats 95
Insight II 54
monomers 53, 54
MSI 28
old Cerius2 54
Polygraf 54
.ris 87, 91, 95
rotatable torsions 95
state table 95
surface information 28
trajectory 79, 81
Find Space Group control panel 11, 24
Flory, P. J. 86, 93

G

General Positions control panel 9

H

help, on-screen 3
high-resolution transmission electron microscopy 37
Homopolymer Builder control panel 55, 58, 59
Homopolymer Preferences control panel 55
homopolymers 47
atomic groupings 69
building 55, 56
composition 55
preferences 56

I

INTERFACE BUILDER card 38
Interface Builder module 37, 38
Interface Building control panel 43
Interface Left Side control panel 41
Interface Right Side control panel 41
interfaces
alignment of sides 40
building 44
creating crystals from 45
creating surfaces from 45
crystal 37
duplicated atoms 44
editing 44
gap 43
match point 40, 42
match vector 40, 42
Miller indices 42
Miller planes 41
orientation of sides 40
periodicity 40
setting up 41
shape 40, 42
slab thickness 42
superimposed atoms 44
vector conventions 39
italic type, meaning 3, 4

J

Jackson, C. J. 93

L

lattice
Bravais 10
infinite assumed 20
primitive 16
reorienting 15
specifying 9
symmetry 10
type 10
Lattice Redefinition control panel 15
lattice vectors
changing 15
display 16
new 15
previewing changes 15
redefining 15
user-specified 15
Load State Table control panel 87

M

methyl rotors 83
Miller indices 21
Miller Plane Options control panel 21
Miller planes 20
color 21
display 21
facetting along 22
opacity 21
positioning 21
reorienting 21
transparency 21
models
2D periodic 11, 27
amorphous 73
copying 82
crystal 5
crystal interfaces 37
ionic 6
monomers 52
multiple-chain 82
polymers 6, 47
surface 11, 27
Molecular Simulations, Inc.
customer support 3
website 3
molten state 73
monomer choosers 50
Monomer Editor control panel 51, 52, 54
Monomer Orientation control panel 59
Monomer Preferences control panel 51, 52
Monomer Reactivities control panel 65
monomers 49
available to polymer builder 50
backbone atoms 52
chiral centers 49, 52, 53, 57
chirality 49
choosing types 55, 61, 66
color use 70
concentrations 62
concentrations, exact 63
creating 50
definition 49
display 70
editing 52
files 49, 50
head group 49, 51, 70
head/tail orientation 56, 58, 62, 67
inversion at chiral center 49, 53, 62
labelling 70
loading 51, 52, 53
number of units 55, 61
reactivities 62, 63
reactivity ratios 64, 65
relative concentrations 60, 62
relative reactivities 60, 62, 65
saving 53
tail group 49, 51, 70
torsions between 51, 56, 59, 62, 67
torsions within 59

P

POLYMER BUILDER card 48
Polymer Builder module 47, 48
Polymer Editor control panel 68
Polymer Tacticity control panel 58
Polymer Torsions control panel 60, 66
polymers
atactic 58
atomic groupings 69, 71
backbone atoms 68
backbone display 70, 71
building 47, 61, 66
chemical nature 69
chiral centers 68, 71
color use 70, 71
configuration 49, 57
copolymers 60, 66
crystals 56
display 70
editing 68
filenames 64, 67
grouping classes 69
grouping types 69
head group 70
initiator 55, 61, 67
inversion at chiral center 68
isotactic 58
labelling 70, 71
levels of atomic groupings 69
meso-diad ratio 58
monomer units 49, 61
names 64, 67
of polymers 63
random-number generator 56, 63, 67
stereoconfigurations 57
structure 69
superunit blocks 67
syndiotactic 58
tacticity 56, 57, 62, 67
tacticity, illustration 57
tail group 70
terminator 55, 61, 67
torsion between monomer units 49, 56, 59, 62, 67
visualization 70

R

Random Copolymer Builder control panel 59, 61, 63, 65
Random Copolymer Preferences control panel 63, 65
random copolymers 47, 60
building 61, 62
composition 61, 64
preferences 62
rate constants 64
RIS energy method 75, 89, 90
temperature 89
RIS methods 73, 78
number of states 89
specifying 87, 89
tolerance 86, 89
tolerance scale factor 86, 89
RIS ratio method 75, 89, 90
RIS variables 85
rotational isomeric state methods 73

S

Save State Table control panel 91
semicrystalline state 73
single-bond sp2-sp2 interactions 83
solution 73
solvent 6
space group
cell origin 14
class 13
example specifications 14
hexagonal axes 14
information 13
monoclinic 14
name 13
nonstandard 13
number 13
options 13, 14, 24
reference 13
rhombohedral axes 14
specifying 13
standard 24
symbol 13
Space Groups control panel 12
superlattices
generating from crystals 16, 17
generating from surfaces 35
primitive 17
size 17, 35
unit cell 18
superstructures
generating from crystals 16
generating from facetted crystals 18
generating from surfaces 35
noncrystalline 18
nonperiodic 17, 18, 19, 35
previewing 23
size 18, 35
Surface Box control panel 29
Surface Build Preferences control panel 31
SURFACE BUILDER card 29
Surface Builder module 27
surface cell
deleting 36
dimensions and angles 32, 33
Surface Cell Parameters control panel 31, 33, 34, 45
surface cell vectors
changing 34
new 35
redefining 34
Surface Visualization control panel 35, 36
surfaces
basis vectors 30
bonds 30, 31
cell, constructing 32
cleaving slab 29
constructing from atoms 33
creating from crystals 29, 31
creating from interfaces 38, 45
creating from nonperiodic models 31
disorder 35
display 30, 36
display range 36
display style 32
generating nonperiodic superstructures 35
generating superlattices 35
Miller indices 30
number of displayed surface cells 36
positioning slab 30
redisplaying 32, 33
reverting to nonperiodic asymmetric unit 36
slab shape and position 30
surface cell, constructing 33
thickness 30
unbuilding 36
updating 30
symmetry
cell parameters 10
constraints 9, 14
constraints, removing 17
crystal 9, 12, 13
editing 10
exact match of atom positions 24
finding 12, 24
positions 10
primitive 17
reducing 15, 16
reimposing 24
tolerance 24

T

torsions
acceptable 79
build methods 78
chirality 83
coupling 85, 86, 90
display 70, 85
excluded 83
file 95
fixed 86, 89
information 88
labelling 70
range of angles 89
renaming 85, 88
rigid 86
rotatable 83
rotation methods 78, 85, 87, 88, 89
rules 83, 85
searches 84
sorting 84
state table 87
states 89
types 85
unique rotatable 78, 83
unique torsions table 87
typewriter font, meaning 3
typographical conventions 3

U

unit cell 6
changing to primitive 15
constructing 13
deleting 19
density 23, 79
dimensions and angles 9, 14
formula 23
information 23
number displayed 19
number of atoms 23
volume 23

W

Wood, J. 93

Y

Young, L. 64, 93

Z

zeolite structures 6


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