Solid State Chemistry

Preface. Part I: Tutorial. Crystal structure: Translation; Crystal planes and directions; Bravais or space lattices; Symmetry elements; Screw axes and glide planes; space groups; Problems. Characterization of solids. Characterization of the major phase: Microscopy; Microprobe analysis; Density determination; X-ray diffraction; Neutron diffraction; Thermal analysis; Wet chemistry; Spectroscopic methods. Characterization of minor phazes and impurities: Limitations of analytical methods. Problems. Electrical properties of semiconductors: Problems. Magnetochemistry: Problems. Phase diagrams: Binary phase diagrams; Ternary phase diagrams; Problems. Part II: Transition metal oxides. Introduction. Synthetic techniques. Preparation of polycrystalline solids: Sol gel synthesis of transition metal oxides; Chimie Douce. Sintering and crystal growth. The growth of oxide single crystals: Growth from the melt; High-temperature solution growth; Flux growth; Chemical vapor transport; Hydrothermal synthesis; High-pressure synthesis; electrolytic reduction of fused salts. Problems. Binary oxides. Transition metal monoxides: Transition metal monoxides and the rock salt structure; Copper(II) oxide. Transition metal dioxides: Titanium(IV) oxide; Vanadium(IV) oxide; Other transition metal dioxides; The crystal chemistry of ZrO2. Several transition metal oxides with the corundum structure. Ternary and higher oxides. Synthesis and characterization of ABO2 delafossite compounds. Perovskites. Tungsten bronzes and related compounds: Rhenium(VI) oxide and rhenium bronzes; Rhenium bronzes; Tungsten bronzes; Molybdenum bronzes; Oxyfluoride bronzes of molybdenum; Platinum metal bronzes. Spinels. Conducting iron tungstates and niobates. High-temperature superconducting oxides. Problems. Part III: Selected metal sulfides. Binary sufides. Low-temperature synthesis of transition metal sulfides: Low-temperature syntheses and properties of Co9S8, Ni3S2 and Fe7S8; Low-temperature preparation of sulfides with the Pyrite Structure. 3d transition metal disulfides with pyrite structure. Layer structures. Intercalcation compounds. Chevrel phases. Chalcogenides with the tetrahedral structure. Zinc sulphide. Diamond. Chalcopyrite and related structures: Chalcopyrite; Solid solutions of (ZnS)1-X(CuMS2)X(M = Al, Ga, IN, or Fe); Stannite or Wurtz-Stannite. Ternary transition metal chalcogenides AB2X4: Thiospinels; The Monoclinic defect nickel arsenide structure; Problems. Answers to selected problems. Index.