Crystallography on mobile phones

Abstract

The new possibilities offered by mobile phones combined with their widespread dissemination among young people open new paradigms for teaching science. The wide adoption of the Java environment for mobile devices gives the opportunity to develop custom-made applications for educational purposes. The first mobile phone application for crystallography training, Escher Mobile, is now available at http://escher.epfl.ch/mobile/. © 2006 International Union of Crystallography - all rights reserved.