Solid State Chemistry and its ApplicationsSOLID STATE CHEMISTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS A comprehensive treatment of solid state chemistry complete with supplementary material and full colour illustrations from a leading expert in the field. Solid State Chemistry and its Applications, Second Edition delivers an advanced version of West’s classic text in solid state chemistry, expanding on the undergraduate Student Edition to present a comprehensive treatment of solid state chemistry suitable for advanced students and researchers. The book provides the reader with an up-to-date account of essential topics in solid state chemistry and recent developments in this rapidly developing field of inorganic chemistry. Significant updates and new content in this second edition include:
Featuring full color illustrations throughout, readers will also benefit from online supplementary materials including access to CrystalMaker® software and over 100 interactive crystal structure models. Perfect for advanced students seeking a detailed treatment of solid state chemistry, this new edition of Solid State Chemistry and its Applications will also earn a place as a desk reference in the libraries of experienced researchers in chemistry, crystallography, physics, and materials science. |
Contents
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7 | |
16 | |
4 | 22 |
15 | 31 |
3 | 37 |
4 | 60 |
6 | 71 |
Survey of Electrical Properties and Electrical Materials | 469 |
Semiconductivity | 492 |
Ionic Conductivity | 502 |
interstitial conduction | 509 |
Dielectric Materials | 547 |
7 | 553 |
9 | 563 |
Luminescence Lasers and Transparent Conductors | 589 |
1 | 87 |
Solid Solutions of Ionic Materials | 122 |
2 | 128 |
3 | 139 |
Extended Defects | 143 |
Bonding in Solids | 161 |
Covalent Bonding | 178 |
Coordinated polymeric structures Sandersons model | 184 |
Metallic Bonding and Band Theory | 197 |
Band structure of insulators | 214 |
7 | 216 |
Synthesis Processing and Fabrication Methods | 221 |
Crystallography and Diffraction Techniques | 265 |
6 | 287 |
5 | 302 |
Total scattering and pair distribution function PDF analysis | 319 |
Microscopy Spectroscopy Thermal Analysis | 325 |
Spectroscopic Techniques | 336 |
calorimetry DSC 6 4 3 | 370 |
Strategy to Identify Analyse and Characterise Unknown Solids | 376 |
7 | 381 |
OneComponent Systems | 386 |
Binary systems with compounds | 393 |
Some Tips and Guidelines for Constructing Binary Phase Diagrams | 411 |
Solidliquid phase diagrams | 421 |
Electrical Properties | 453 |
Heterogeneous Materials Electroceramics and Impedance Spectroscopy | 619 |
12 | 647 |
166 | 658 |
Some Important Examples | 663 |
176 | 694 |
14 | 697 |
179 | 723 |
15 | 743 |
16 | 771 |
91 | 781 |
20 | 782 |
182 | 788 |
99 | 793 |
Interplanar Spacings and Unit Cell Volumes | 795 |
22 | 798 |
Geometrical Considerations in Crystal Chemistry | 801 |
25 | 809 |
The Arrhenius Equation for Ionic Conductivity | 815 |
105 | 829 |
186 | 830 |
Questions | 837 |
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