Functional and Smart Materials: Structural Evolution and Structure Analysis

✍ Scribed by Z. L. Wang, Z. C. Kang (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 527
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the search for new functional materials, a clear understanding about the relationship between the physical properties and the atomic-scale structure of materials is needed. Here, the authors provide graduate students and scientists with an in-depth account of the evolutionary behavior of oxide functional materials within specific structural systems, discussing the intrinsic connections among these different structural systems.
Over 300 illustrations and key appendices support the text.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Structure, Bonding, and Properties....Pages 9-69
Sodium Chloride and Rutile-Related Structure Systems....Pages 71-92
Perovskite and Related Structure Systems....Pages 93-149
Fluorite-Type and Related Structure Systems....Pages 151-222
From Structural Units to Materials Engineering via Soft Chemistry....Pages 223-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Electron Crystallography for Structure Analysis....Pages 261-339
Structure Analysis of Functional Materials....Pages 341-404
Chemical and Valence Structure Analysis of Functional Materials....Pages 405-470
Back Matter....Pages 471-514

✦ Subjects

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Electrical Engineering; Physical Chemistry