Crystallography tells us about the nature of crystals and how they show us the shape and dimensions of molecules, hormones, nucleic acids, enzymes, proteins…, what their properties are and how they work in a chemical reaction, in a test tube, or inside of a living being. The Department of Crystallography and Structural Biology offers an internationally recognized website for learning Crystallography: http://www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es/Cristalografia/.
Written in two languages (Spanish and English), this website was announced by the International Union of Crystallography (http://bit.ly/dHj0Q0) and selected by this institution as one of the most interesting sites for learning crystallography (http://bit.ly/1zCsBOX). It was also offered as such in the commemorative web for 2014 International Year of Crystallography (http://bit.ly/1BYMGyd), and suggested as the educational website to learn about crystals, diffraction and crystal structure determination in the brochure (http://bit.ly/1DXoqxP) prepared for the Crystal-Growing competition for UNESCO Associated Schools. It is also offered as one of the best learning online tools by several US universities (see for example: http://bit.ly/guMQax, http://bit.ly/gCLbYk). As it can be seen through any of its independent visitor counters it collects over 1,500 different visitors a day, distributed by all countries, but especially US, Europe, India and Latin America.