Bruce / O'Hare / Walton Functional Oxides

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-68608-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Inorganic Materials Series

Functional oxides have a wide variety of applications in theelectronic industry. The discovery of new metal oxides withinteresting and useful properties continues to drive much researchin chemistry, physics, and materials science.

In Functional Oxides five topical areas have beenselected to illustrate the importance of metal oxides in modernmaterials chemistry:

* Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials

* Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials

* Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides

* Thermoelectric Oxides

* Transition Metal Oxides - Magnetoresistance andHalf-Metallicity

The contents highlight structural chemistry, magnetic andelectronic properties, ionic conduction and other emerging areas ofimportance, such as thermoelectricity and spintronics.

Functional Oxides covers these complex concepts in aclear and accessible manner providing an excellent introduction tothis broad subject area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruce, Duncan W.

O'Hare, Dermot

Walton, Richard I.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Inorganic Materials Preface.
Preface.
List of Contributors.
1. Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Characterization Techniques (P. Shiv Halasyamani).
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Strategies toward Synthesising Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Materials
1.3 Electronic Distortions
1.4 Properties Associated with Noncentrosymmetric Materials
1.5 Outlook - Multifunctional Materials
1.6 Concluding Thoughts
Acknowledgements.
References.
2. Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials (John E. Greedan).
2.2 Geometric Frustration
2.3 Real Materials
2.4 Concluding Remarks
References.
3. Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides (Edmund Cussen).
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Sodium and Lithium ß-Alumina.
3.3 Akali Metal Sulfates and the Effect of Anion Disorder on Conductivity.
3.4 LISICON and Related Phases.
3.5 Lithium conduction in NaSICON-Related phases.
3.6 Doped Analogues of LiZr2 (PO4)3.
3.7 Lithium conduction in the Perovskite Structure.
3.8 Lithium-Containing Garnets.
References.
4. Thermoelectric Oxides (Sylvie Hébert and Antoine Maignan).
4.1. Introduction.
4.2. How to Optimise Thermoelectric Generators (TEG).
4.3. Thermoelectric Oxides.
4.4. Conclusion.
Acknowledgments.
References
5. Transition Metal Oxides - Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity (Tapas Kumar Mandal and Martha Greenblatt).
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Magnetoresistance: Concepts and Developments.
5.3 Half-Metallicity.
5.4 Oxides Exhibiting Half-Metallicity.
5.5 Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity of Double Perovskites.
5.6 Spintronics - The Emerging Magneto-electronics.
5.7 Summary.
Acknowledgments.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Duncan Bruce graduated from the University ofLiverpool (UK), where he also gained his PhD. In 1984, he took up aTemporary Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the University ofSheffield and was awarded a Royal Society Warren ResearchFellowship. He was then appointed Lecturer in Chemistry and waspromoted Senior Lecturer in 1994, in which year he becameco-director of the Sheffield Centre for Molecular Materials. In1995, he was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at theUniversity of Exeter. Following the closure of Exeter's chemistrydepartment in 2005, Professor Bruce took up his present position asProfessor of Materials Chemistry in York. He is currently Chair ofthe Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Forum. Hiscurrent research interests include liquid crystals andnanoparticle-doped, nanostructured, mesoporous silicates. His workhas been recognized by various awards including the British LiquidCrystal Society's first Young Scientist prize and the RSC's SirEdward Frankland Fellowship and Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize. Hehas held visiting positions in Australia, France, Japan and Italy.
Dr. Richard Walton, who was also formerly based in theDepartment of Chemistry at the University of Exeter, now works inthe Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. Hisresearch group works in the area of solid-state materials chemistryand has a number of projects focusing upon the synthesis,structural characterization and properties of inorganicmaterials.
Dermot O'Hare is Professor in the Chemistry ResearchLaboratory at the University of Oxford.
His research group has a wide range of research interests. Theyall involve synthetic chemistry ranging from organometallicchemistry to the synthesis of new microporous solids.
Duncan Bruce and Dermot O'Hare have edited several editions ofInorganic Materials published by John Wiley & SonsLtd.