The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids - Hardcover

Cox, P. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019855205X ISBN 13: 9780198552055

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1987

Synopsis

Recent years have seen a considerable growth of interest in chemical aspects of the electronic structure of solids. Most books on solids are addressed to physicists, and present a more mathematical and fundamental account of the subject than is appropriate for students of chemistry. The present book takes a different view, and shows how the electronic structures and properties of solids can be described in terms familiar to chemists. The first three chapters give a fairly elementary account, suitable for undergraduate students with a reasonable grounding in inorganic and physical chemistry. The later chapters present slightly more advanced aspects, including many topics of current research interest, such as metal-insulator transitions, low-dimensional solids and "molecular metals", and the properties of surfaces. The discussion is illustrated by a wide variety of examples. This is intended for advanced first-degree and graduate students of chemistry and materials science, University and Polytechnic lecturers in these subjects and research workers in chemistry, materials science, and solid state electronics.

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Review

`P. A. Cox has brought considerable skill to the taks of familiarizing chemists with the electronic structure of solids.' Angewandte Chemie

About the Author

P. A. Cox is at University of Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019855205X
• ISBN 13: 9780198552055
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270