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Materials Chemistry

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Though most colleges and universities now have courses and degree programs related
to materials chemistry, there is a need for a textbook that addresses inorganic-,
organic-, and nano-based materials from a structure vs. property treatment. As I
quickly discovered, trying to fill this void represented a daunting task of providing
a suitable breadth and depth coverage of the rapidly evolving field of materials –
all in a concise format. The material contained herein is most appropriate for
junior/senior undergraduate students, as well as first-year graduate students in chemistry,
physics, and engineering fields. In addition, this textbook will be extremely useful
for researchers in industry as an initial source to learn about materials/techniques,
with references provided for more detailed investigation.

After providing a historical perspective for the field of materials in the first chapter,
the first concentration of the textbook focuses on solid-state chemistry. Though
there are many popular textbooks that deal with this topic, my approach contains
some unique perspectives. In addition to colored illustrations of archetypical crystalline
unit cells, digital photos of models are also provided to add clarity to their
structures. Further, a large section on amorphous solids including sol–gel techniques
and cementitious materials is provided – largely left out of most solid-state textbooks.
The next chapter on metals contains a thorough treatment of traditional and powder
metallurgical techniques, with a focus on the complex phase behavior exhibited by
the Fe–C system and steels. However, also left out of most metallurgy textbooks,
I cover topics such as corrosion inhibition, magnetism, hydrogen storage, and the
structure/properties of other metallic classes, such as the coinage metals and other
alloys, such as those exhibiting shape-memory properties.

The next chapter deals with semiconducting materials, which consists of a discussion
of band theory and semiconductor physics. Unique among other texts, I also
describe in great detail the evolution of the transistor, with a discussion of current
limitations and solutions currently being investigated by researchers in the field. Also
described in this chapter is IC fabrication, including vapor deposition techniques,
photolithography, and ion implantation. The current trends in applications such as
LEDs/OLEDs, thermoelectric devices, and photovoltaics (including emerging technologies
such as dye-sensitized solar cells) are also provided in this chapter.

Polymers and organic-based “soft” materials represent one of the largest materials
classes; however, these materials are often left out of solid-state textbooks. Herein,
I cover the chemistry of the five classes of polymers, from simple chains to complex
branched dendritic architectures. Again, the approach is unique in that it covers
traditional mechanisms and structure/property relationships for polymers, in addition
to advanced topics such as homogeneous catalysis, polymer additives, and selfhealing
polymers. A detailed discussion of “molecular magnets” is also provided in
this chapter, due to their relatively mild syntheses and “soft” properties relative to
traditional inorganic-based magnets.

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Netherlands : Springer Science + Business Media B.V.., 2008

Deskripsi Fisik

xi, 485 hlm. ebook.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781402061202

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KIMIA MATERIAL

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