Principles of Inorganic Materials Design

Principles of Inorganic Materials Design

Lalena, John N.; Cleary, David A.

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

05/2005

420

Dura

Inglês

9780471434184

0471434183

15 a 20 dias

710

A single source presentation that highlights the interdisciplinary nature of materials design and characterization. * Presents inorganic materials design as an interdisciplinary field, providing students of different backgrounds with useful information they might not have been exposed to.
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 Band Theory.3.1 The Many-Body Schro dinger 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 the Hartree-Fock Approach.4. The Electronic Structure, II: The Tight-Binding Approximation.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 from Disorder.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 Phase Modeling.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.
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