Principles of Inorganic Materials Design

Principles of Inorganic Materials Design

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lalena, John N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2010.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Chemistry, Inorganic > Materials.
Chemistry, Technical > Materials.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • PRINCIPLES OF INORGANIC MATERIALS DESIGN
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION
  • FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION
  • PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
  • PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
  • ACRONYMS
  • 1 CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS
  • 1.1 Degrees of Crystallinity
  • 1.1.1 Monocrystalline Solids
  • 1.1.2 Quasicrystalline Solids
  • 1.1.3 Polycrystalline Solids
  • 1.1.4 Semicrystalline Solids
  • 1.1.5 Amorphous Solids
  • 1.2 Basic Crystallography
  • 1.2.1 Space Lattice Geometry
  • 1.3 Single Crystal Morphology and its Relationship to Lattice Symmetry
  • 1.4 Twinned Crystals
  • 1.5 Crystallographic Orientation Relationships in Bicrystals
  • 1.5.1 The Coincidence Site Lattice
  • 1.5.2 Equivalent Axis-Angle Pairs
  • 1.6 Amorphous Solids and Glasses
  • Practice Problems
  • References
  • 2 MICROSTRUCTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • 2.1 Materials Length Scales
  • 2.1.1 Experimental Resolution of Material Features
  • 2.2 Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Materials
  • 2.2.1 Grain-Boundary Orientations
  • 2.2.2 Dislocation Model of Low Angle Grain Boundaries
  • 2.2.3 Grain-Boundary Energy
  • 2.2.4 Special Types of Low-Energy Grain Boundaries
  • 2.2.5 Grain-Boundary Dynamics
  • 2.2.6 Representing Orientation Distributions in Polycrystalline Aggregates
  • 2.3 Materials Processing and Microstructure
  • 2.3.1 Conventional Solidification
  • 2.3.2 Deformation Processing
  • 2.3.3 Consolidation Processing
  • 2.3.4 Thin-Film Formation
  • 2.4 Microstructure and Materials Properties
  • 2.4.1 Mechanical Properties
  • 2.4.2 Transport Properties
  • 2.4.3 Magnetic and Dielectric Properties
  • 2.4.4 Chemical Properties
  • 2.5 Microstructure Control and Design
  • Practice Problems
  • References
  • 3 CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND BINDING FORCES
  • 3.1 Structure Description Methods
  • 3.1.1 Close Packing
  • 3.1.2 Polyhedra
  • 3.1.3 The Unit Cell
  • 3.1.4 Pearson Symbols
  • 3.2 Cohesive Forces in Solids
  • 3.2.1 Ionic Bonding
  • 3.2.2 Covalent Bonding
  • 3.2.3 Metallic Bonding
  • 3.2.4 Atoms and Bonds as Electron Charge Density
  • 3.3 Structural Energetics
  • 3.3.1 Lattice Energy
  • 3.3.2 The Born-Haber Cycle
  • 3.3.3 Goldschmidt's Rules and Pauling's Rules
  • 3.3.4 Total Energy
  • 3.3.5 Electronic Origin of Coordination Polyhedra in Covalent Crystals
  • 3.4 Common Structure Types
  • 3.4.1 Iono-Covalent Solids
  • 3.4.2 Intermetallic Compounds
  • 3.5 Structural Disturbances
  • 3.5.1 Intrinsic Point Defects
  • 3.5.2 Extrinsic Point Defects
  • 3.5.3 Structural Distortions
  • 3.5.4 Bond Valence Sum Calculations
  • 3.6 Structure Control and Synthetic Strategies
  • Practice Problems
  • References
  • 4 THE ELECTRONIC LEVEL I: AN OVERVIEW OF BAND THEORY
  • 4.1 The Many-Body Schrödinger Equation
  • 4.2 Bloch's Theorem
  • 4.3 Reciprocal Space
  • 4.4 A Choice of Basis Sets
  • 4.4.1 Plane-Wave Expansion
  • The Free-Electron Models
  • 4.4.2 The Fermi Surface and Phase Stability
  • 4.4.3 Bloch Sum Basis Set
  • The LCAO Method
  • 4.5 Understanding Band-Structure Diagrams

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