Welcome to the website for the second edition of the book The Structure of Materials, written by Marc De Graef and Michael McHenry, and published by Cambridge University Press.

On this site, you will find the following items:

About the Book
Information about the writing of the book, errata, ...
Software
Some details about the software used during the writing of this book, as well as links to public domain/shareware/commercial software for crystallography.
Additional Material
The structures appendix, crystal structure coordinate files, high resolution point group images, etc...

Any errors and comments should be sent to the .

Site maintaned by MDG; last site update: 6/07/13

Part of the material on this site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0404836. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


  • Fall 2012: The second edition is now available!

  • June 2013: The Additional Materials section has now been completed.

  • July 2013: The nearly complete solution set for both first and second editions is now available through the publisher's web site; faculty identification is required.