state chemistry: an overview of the discipline’ which shows the overlap with, and evolution of, emerging areas of Materials Chemistry and Nanomaterials. Organic materials are not excluded, but do not feature strongly here, nor do inorganic‐organic composite or hybrid materials; these are better covered in works on Materials Chemistry.
The major additions to this second edition are many and include: a more extensive overview of the crystal structures of important families of inorganic solids including spinels, perovskites, tungsten bronzes, garnets, pyrochlores and many more; an easy to use, bespoke CrystalMaker® software, accompanied by more than 100 crystal structure models, that can be downloaded free and used to examine these structures on one’s own computer; new methods to synthesise inorganic solids, including sol‐gel methods and thin film deposition techniques such as PLD, MBE, spray pyrolysis, as well as CVD for fabrication of diamond films and amorphous silicon; newer techniques of electron microscopy including EPMA, EELS, Auger, CL and HAADF/Z contrast STEM; major advances in electrical properties of materials, including cuprate superconductors (Nobel prize, 1987), graphene (Nobel prize, 2010), fibre optic communications (Nobel prize, 2009), neutron diffraction and spectroscopy (Nobel prize, 1994), NMR spectroscopy (Nobel prize, 1991), electron microscopy (Nobel prize, 1986), fullerenes (Nobel prize, 1996), polyacetylene (Nobel prize, 2000), lithium batteries (Nobel prize, 2018) and solid oxide fuel cells; novel developments in optical properties, including semiconductor lasers and blue LEDs (Nobel prize, 2014), fibre optics, solar cells and transparent conducting oxides; advances in magnetic properties including giant and colossal magnetoresistance (Nobel prize, 2007), quasicrystals (Nobel prize, 2011) and multiferroic materials; homogeneous and heterogeneous ceramics together with an overview of the new impedance spectroscopy technique and its applications; thermoelectric materials and their applications; multifunctional materials, including MXenes, graphene, other 2D layered structures, TiO2 nanomaterials and Ca12Al14O33 superconducting electride. Coverage of the traditional structural materials of glass, cement and concrete, refractories and high temperature ceramics is expanded to include new developments in fluoride glasses for fibre optics, bioglass for tissue engineering applications, geopolymers and novel cements.
Anthony R. West
Sheffield
February 2022
Companion Website
This textbook is supported by a website which contains a variety of supplementary resources:
www.wiley.com/go/west/solidstatechemistry2
Online you will find PowerPoint slides of all figures from the book, as well as solutions to the set of questions. The website also gives you access to a CrystalMaker® viewer program. The CrystalViewer software is available for Windows and Mac, and is accompanied by a broad array of crystal structures for you to view and manipulate.
Crystal Viewer
CrystalViewer is a visualisation program for displaying and manipulating crystal structures. The CrystalViewer software facilitates the exploration of crystal structures from the book in three dimensions, allowing users to view the structures in different orientations, and highlight/hide different structural features so as to aid the interpretation of complex crystal structures. The CrystalViewer program is accompanied by over 100 crystal structure files; many of these structures relate directly to illustrations from the book, identified by their figure numbers, and a variety of additional structures are provided to complement the concepts and applications discussed in the text.
The CrystalViewer software and accompanying structure files can be downloaded from the companion website at http://www.wiley.com/go/west/solidstatechemistrystudent.
An example of how a crystal structure can appear very different, depending on which aspects are emphasised, is shown here for CaCu3Ti4O12, in which the two diagrams highlight either the TiO6 octahedra or the CuO4 square planar units.
Crystal Structure Library
A Crystal Structure Library is available on the companion website containing >100 structures which can be examined in detail using the CrystalViewer Software. The structures which correspond directly to figures in the book are listed below, with the relevant figure number noted in parentheses. Many more crystal structures are available online, including minerals and other inorganic structures. Further structures may be added from time to time.
Major Inorganic Structure Types (and relevant book diagrams)
| β‐alumina, NaAl11O17 (8.23 and 8.24) Anatase BaTiO3 (8.40) bcc metal (2.12) Beryl Bi4V2O11 Bixbyite Brass, ZnCu (2.11) Brookite Brownmillerite, Ca2(Fe,Al)2O5 (1.42) Brucite CaC2 (1.10) CaCu3Ti4O12 (1.42) Calcite Ca silicates (several) CdCl2 (1.40) Cdl2 (1.39) Chevrel Phase, BaMo6S8 (8.6) Corundum, α‐Al2O3 (1.46) CsCl (1.36) Delafossite Diamond (1.33) Eucryptite fcc metal (1.20) Feldspar Fluorite/antifluorite, CaF2 (1.29, 1.30 and 1.34) Garnet, Y3Fe5O12 (1.49) GdFeO3 (1.41) Gehlenite hcp metal (1.21) Hollandite (8.27) Ilmenite, FeTiO3 (1.46) K2NiF4 (1.50) LaB6 Layered double hydroxides (4.11) | Li3N (8.32) Li2MnO3 LiCoO2/α‐NaFeO2 (8.35) LiNbO3 (1.46) Li3PO4 Li3SbO4 Li silicates LiAlO2 Magnetoplumbite (9.14) MgB2 (1.51) Mayenite Nasicon, NaZr2(PO4)3 (8.27) Melilite Mullite Muscovite Nickel arsenide, NiAs (1.35) Olivine, LiFePO4 (1.45) PbFCl, matlockite (8.6) PbO (3.14) Perovskite, SrTiO3 (1.41) Pyrochlore (1.48) Rock salt, NaCl (1.2, 1.29 and 1.31) Rutile, TiO2 (1.37) Scheelite SiO2 Sodalite Spinel (1.44) Spodumene Talc Tenorite, CuO Tetragonal tungsten bronze (1.43) Willemite Wurtzite, ZnS (1.35) YBa2Cu3O6 (8.8) YBa2Cu3O7 (8.8) Zinc blende/sphalerite, ZnS (1.29 and 1.33) Zircon ZrCuSiAs (8.6) |
Biography
Tony West obtained his BSc degree in Chemistry at University College Swansea and his PhD at the University of Aberdeen, where he worked with Professor F. P. Glasser on silicate chemistry. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Aberdeen in 1971 and developed a lifetime interest in the then‐emerging field of solid state chemistry with special interest in the synthesis of new oxide materials, their crystal structures and electrical properties. He was awarded a DSc from Aberdeen in 1984 and rose through the ranks to become Professor of Chemistry in 1989 before moving to the University of Sheffield, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, as Head of Department in 1999, a post he held until 2007.
Tony was founding editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry and subsequently established the Materials Chemistry Forum, which has now become the Materials Chemistry Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He organised the First International Conference on Materials Chemistry, MCI, in Aberdeen, 1993, and coorganised the first Materials Discussion, MDI, in Bordeaux, 1998. He also served as President of the Inorganic
