This volume presents new methodologies and rationalizes existing methods that are used in the
design of multi-shell polyhedral clusters. The author describes how the methods used are
extended from 2D-operations on maps to 3D (and higher dimensional) Euclidean space. A variety
of structures is designed and described in detail and classified giving rise to an atlas of
multi-shell nanostructures. The book therefore sheds a new light on the field of crystal and
quasicrystal structures an important part of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The author goes
on to show how the recently established methods are used for building complex multi-shell
nanostructures and how this completes the existing information in the field. The atlas of such
structures is completed with atomic coordinates (included as supplementary material). The
content of this book gives a useful insight into structure elucidation and suggests new
material synthesis.
