(of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
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X-ray powder diffraction analysis confirmed the face-centred cubic crystalline structure of metallic silver.
Jiangang Zhang, Xiaoping Yue, Yan Zeng, Erbin Hua, Min Wang, Yuanxia Sun 2018, 'Bacillus amyloliquefaciens levan and its silver nanoparticles with antimicrobial properties',Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipmenthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2018.1523690. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Heusler alloys crystallize in a close-packed cubic structure, having a four-atom basis forming a face-centredcubic lattice.
Guanhua Qin, Wei Wu, Shunbo Hu, Yongxue Tao, Xiaoyan Yan, Chao Jing, Xi Li, Hui Gu,Shixun Cao, Wei Ren 2017, 'Effect of swap disorder on the physical properties of the quaternary Heusler alloyPdMnTiAl: a first-principles study', IUCrJhttp://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S205225251700745X. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Atomistic simulations are performed to probe the anisotropic deformation in the compressions of face-centred-cubic metallic nanoparticles.
Jianjun Bian, Hao Zhang, Xinrui Niu, Gangfeng Wang 2018, 'Anisotropic Deformation in the Compressions of Single Crystalline Copper Nanoparticles',Crystalshttp://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/8/3/116. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In our ab initio protein structure prediction method, we use the three-dimensional face-centred-cubic lattice for structure-backbone mapping.
Mahmood A. Rashid, Swakkhar Shatabda, M. A. Hakim Newton, Md Tamjidul Hoque, AbdulSattar 2014, 'A Parallel Framework for Multipoint Spiral Search in ab Initio Protein Structure Prediction',Advances in Bioinformaticshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/985968. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)