<p>SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS</p> <p><b>A comprehensive treatment of solid state chemistry complete with supplementary material and full colour illustrations from a leading expert in the field.</b></p> <p><i>Solid State Chemistry and its Applications, Second Edition</i> delivers an advanced version of West’s classic text in solid state chemistry, expanding on the undergraduate <i>Student Edition</i> 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.</p> <p>Significant updates and new content in this second edition include:</p> <ul> <li>A more extensive overview of important families of inorganic solids including spinels, perovskites, pyrochlores, garnets, Ruddlesden-Popper phases and many more</li> <li>New methods to synthesise inorganic solids, including sol-gel methods, combustion synthesis, atomic layer deposition, spray pyrolysis and microwave techniques</li> <li>Advances in electron microscopy, X-ray and electron spectroscopies</li> <li>New developments in electrical properties of materials, including high Tc superconductivity, lithium batteries, solid oxide fuel cells and smart windows</li> <li>Recent developments in optical properties, including fibre optics, solar cells and transparent conducting oxides</li> <li>Advances in magnetic properties including magnetoresistance and multiferroic materials</li> <li>Homogeneous and heterogeneous ceramics, characterization using impedance spectroscopy</li> <li>Thermoelectric materials, MXenes, low dimensional structures, memristors and many other functional materials</li> <li>Expanded coverage of glass, including metallic and fluoride glasses, cement and concrete, geopolymers, refractories and structural ceramics</li> <li>Overview of binary oxides of all the elements, their structures, properties and applications</li> </ul> <p>Featuring full color illustrations throughout, readers will also benefit from online supplementary materials including access to CrystalMaker<sup>®</sup> software and over 100 interactive crystal structure models.</p> <p>Perfect for advanced students seeking a detailed treatment of solid state chemistry, this new edition of <i>Solid State Chemistry and its Applications</i> will also earn a place as a desk reference in the libraries of experienced researchers in chemistry, crystallography, physics, and materials science.</p>
