Functional and Smart Materials

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.

Zusammenfassung
"A unique, cutting-edge text on smart materials."
Physics Today, November 1998

Inhalt
I Structure and Structural Evolution.- 1. Structure, Bonding, and Properties.- 2. Sodium Chloride and Rutile-Related Structure Systems.- 3. Perovskite and Related Structure Systems.- 4. Fluorite-Type and Related Structure Systems.- 5. From Structural Units to Materials Engineering via Soft Chemistry.- II Structure Characterizations.- 6. Electron Crystallography for Structure Analysis.- 7. Structure Analysis of Functional Materials.- 8. Chemical and Valence Structure Analysis of Functional Materials.- Appendixes.- A. Physical Constants, Electron Wavelengths, and Wave Numbers.- B1. Crystallographic Structure Systems.- B2. Fortran Program for Calculating Crystallographic Data.- C. Electron Diffraction Patterns for Several Types of Crystal Structures.- D. Fortran Program for Calculating Single Valence-Loss EELS Spectra in TEM.- References.- Materials Index.