Principles of Inorganic Materials Design

A unique interdisciplinary approach to inorganic materialsdesignTextbooks intended for the training of chemists in the inorganicmaterials field often omit many relevant topics. With itsinterdisciplinary approach, this book fills that gap by presentingconcepts from chemistry, physics, materials science, metallurgy,and ceramics in a unified treatment targeted towards the chemistryaudience. Semiconductors, metal alloys and intermetallics, as wellas ceramic substances are covered. Accordingly, the book shouldalso be useful to students and working professionals in a varietyof other disciplines.This book discusses a number of topics that are pertinent to thedesign of new inorganic materials but are typically not covered instandard solid-state chemistry books. The authors start with anintroduction to structure at the mesoscopic level and progress tosmaller-length scales. Next, detailed consideration is given toboth phenomenological and atomistic-level descriptions of transportproperties, the metal-nonmetal transition, magnetic and dielectricproperties, optical properties, and mechanical properties. Finally,the authors present introductions to phase equilibria, synthesis,and nanomaterials.Other features include:* Worked examples demonstrating concepts unfamiliar to thechemist* Extensive references to related literature, leading readers tomore in-depth coverage of particular topics* Biographies introducing the reader to great contributors to thefield of inorganic materials science in the twentieth centuryWith their interdisciplinary approach, the authors have set thegroundwork for communication and understanding among professionalsin varied disciplines who are involved with inorganic materialsengineering. Armed with this publication, students and researchersin inorganic and physical chemistry, physics, materials science,and engineering will be better equipped to face today's complexdesign challenges. This textbook is appropriate for senior-levelundergraduate and graduate course work.

Foreword.Preface.1. The Mesoscale.1.1 Interfaces in Polycrystals.1.2 Solidified Metals and Alloys.1.3 Ceramic Powder Aggregates.1.4 Thin-Film Microstructure.2. Crystal Structure and Bonding.2.1 Structure Description Methods.2.2 Cohesive Forces in Solids.2.3 Structural Energetics.2.4 Common Structure Types.2.5 Structural Disturbances.2.6 Structural Control and Synthetic Strategies.3. The Electronic Level, I: An Overview of BandTheory.3.1 The Many-Body Schrödinger Equation.3.2 Bloch's Theorem.3.3 Reciprocal Space.3.4 A Choice of Basis Sets.3.5 Understanding Band-Structure Diagrams.3.6 Breakdown of the Independent Electron Approximation.3.7 Density Functional Theory: An Alternative to theHartree-Fock Approach.4. The Electronic Structure, II: The Tight-BindingApproximation.4.1 The General LCAO Method.4.2 Extension of the LCAO Method to Crystalline Solids.4.3 Orbital Interactions in Monatomic Solids.4.4 Tight-Binding Assumptions.4.5 Qualitative LCAO Band Structures.4.6 Total Energy Tight-Binding Calculations.5. Transport Properties.5.1 An Introduction to Tensors.5.2 Thermal Conductivity.5.3 Electronic Conductivity.5.4 Atomic Transport.6. Metal-Nonmetal Transitions.6.1 Correlated Systems.6.2 Anderson Localization.6.3 Experimentally Distinguishing Electron Correlation fromDisorder.6.4 Tuning the Metal-Nonmetal Transition.6.5 Other Types of Electronic Transitions.7. Magnetic and Dielectric Properties.7.1 Macroscopic Magnetic Behavior.7.2 Atomic Origin of Paramagnetism.7.3 Spontaneous Magnetic Ordering.7.4 Magnetotransport Properties.7.5 Magnetostriction.7.6 Dielectric Properties.8. Optical Properties of Materials.8.1 Maxwell's Equations.8.2 Refractive Index.8.3 Absorption.8.4 Nonlinear Effects.8.5 Summary.9. Mechanical Properties.9.1 Basic Definitions.9.2 Elasticity.9.3 Plasticity.9.4 Fracture.10. Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams, and PhaseModeling.10.1 Thermodynamic Systems, Phases, and Components.10.2 The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.10.3 Understanding Phase Diagrams.10.4 Experimental Phase-Diagram Determinations.10.5 Phase-Diagram Modeling.11. An Introduction to Nanomaterials.11.1 History of Nanotechnology.11.2 Properties of Matter at the Nanoscale.12. Synthetic Strategies.12.1 Synthetic Strategies.12.2 Summary.Index.