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This comprehensive textbook provides a modern, self-contained treatment for upper undergraduate and graduate level students. It emphasizes the links between structure, defects, bonding, and properties throughout, and provides an integrated treatment of a wide range of materials, including crystalline, amorphous, organic and nano- materials. Boxes on synthesis methods, characterization tools, and technological applications distil specific examples and support student understanding of materials and their design. The first six chapters cover the fundamentals of extended solids, while later chapters explore a specific property or class of material, building a coherent framework for students to master core concepts with confidence, and for instructors to easily tailor the coverage to fit their own single semester course. With mathematical details given only where they strengthen understanding, 400 original figures and over 330 problems for hands-on learning, this accessible textbook is ideal for courses in chemistry and materials science.
Structures of Crystalline Materials
Defects and More Complex Structures
Defect Chemistry and Nonstoichiometry
Phase Diagrams and Phase Transitions
Chemical Bonding
Electronic Band Structure
Optical Materials
Dielectrics and Nonlinear Optical Materials
Magnetic Materials
Conducting Materials
Magnetotransport Materials
Superconductivity
Energy Materials: Ionic Conductors, Mixed Conductors, and Intercalation Chemistry
Zeolites and Other Porous Materials
Amorphous and Disordered Materials