Crystal Impact - Software for Chemists and Material Scientists

CRYSTAL IMPACT develops easy-to-use, high-quality software for materials research and science. The powerful tools support crystal structure visualization and powder diffraction analysis with precision and ease. Material scientists, crystallographers, chemists and physicists from industry and academic institutions in more than 92 countries all around the world trust Crystal Impact's innovative software tools to determine, visualize and understand the crystal structures of their compounds or investigate the composition of their powder samples.

CRYSTAL IMPACT started life as a project based in the University of Bonn, where G. Bergerhoff's research group established the ICSD (Inorganic Crystal Structure Database) already in 1983. Researching new methods for detection of systematically hidden patterns in structural databases we collected a great lot of experiences in crystallographic programming. In the early 90's we developed completely new retrieval and visualization software for the ICSD, which was awarded an international software price to in 1993. In 1997 "Prof. Dr. G. Bergerhoff Software-Entwicklung" devolved upon "CRYSTAL IMPACT K. Brandenburg & M. Berndt GbR". And we still maintain close collaboration with the "pioneers" from the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bonn.

Who we are

Scientific objectives

The main subject of our company is the development of software for natural scientists with main stress on chemistry, crystallography, and material sciences.

• Development of integrated information systems for chemistry research and education with a special focus on crystallography.
• Combination and completion of former seperately handled methods and simplification of their handling for maximizing scientific productivity.
• Utilization of new or less common used methods by translating them into user-friendly software and embedding into integrated systems.

Fields of interest

• Visualization of Crystal Structure Data
• Phase Analysis using Powder Diffraction Data
• Structure Solution from Powder Diffraction Data

Products & projects

• DIAMOND
  The original intent was a visualization tool especially for inorganic crystal structures with a special focus on educational and research aspects. Thus functions which allows a better understanding of structural details have been implemented even in the first version. You will find no easier way to get perfect presentations from real structures than using DIAMOND.
• ENDEAVOUR
  Based upon the well experienced DIAMOND visualization techniques, ENDEAVOUR is designed to solve crystal structures from powder diffraction data. Therefore it provides a structure model generator, which uses "Pareto-optimization" of pattern difference and potential energy. This closes the remaining gap in the process of structure solution from powder diffraction data.
• MATCH!
  Phase analysis using powder diffraction data has become a daily task in material scientists work. Match! feeds the needs. Its intuitive user interface and its moderate price makes it valuable for novices as well as professionals.

Cooperations

	Tennessine - Instrumentação Analítica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - Distribution of phase analysis software MATCH! in Brasil and South America
	xplorex GmbH, Rimsting am Chiemsee, Germany - Usage of phase analysis software MATCH! with "The Planet" (portable high resolution X-ray powder diffraction)
	Material Phases Data System (MPDS), Vitznau, Switzerland - Data collection and creation of PAULING FILE database; development and re-distribution of Pearson's Crystal Data CD-ROM software
	Bruker AXS, Karlsruhe, Germany - Bundling of DIAMOND with DIFFRACplus TOPAS Software

Contact

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