Studying structure to understand function within 'material families'

As Francis Crick, one of Britain's great scientists, once said: "If you want to understand function, study structure." Within the realm of chemical physics, a clear example of this is the two forms of carbon—diamond and graphite. While they differ only in the atomic arrangement of atoms of a single element, their properties are quite different.

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