Solid state chemistry : selected papers of C.N.R. Rao / editors, S.K. Joshi, R.A. Mashelkar.

Includes bibliographical references.

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CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- A TRIBUTE -- PART I OVERVIEW -- Four decades of research in solid state chemistry -- 1. Prologue -- 2. Early beginnings -- 3. Start of professional career -- 4. Defects in inorganic solids -- 5. Transition metal oxides -- 6. Oxford experience -- 7. Shift to Bangalore in search of better facilities -- 8. Perovskites -- 9. Phase transitions -- 10. Cambridge experience -- 11. Catalysts -- 12. Synthesis -- 13. Warm superconductors -- 14. Metal clusters -- 15. Fullerenes -- 16. Other studies -- 17. Epilogue -- Acknowledgements

Electronic Structures of Solids by Electron-energy-loss Spectroscopy carried out using an Electron Microscope: Oxygen-K and Metal-L Edges of Transition Metal OxidesA MAS NMR investigation of aluminosilicate, silicophosphate, and aluminosilicophosphate gels and the evolution of crystalline structures on heating the gels -- 29Si NMR chemical shifts in silicates -- A MAGIC-ANGLE SPINNING 31P NMR INVESTIGATION OF CRYSTALLINE AND GLASSY INORGANIC PHOSPHATES -- Investigation of Solids and Surfaces by Photoacoustic Spectroscopy -- PART III PHASE TRANSITIONS

Author's Comments on Papers 12 through 20Phase Transitions and the Chemistry of Solids -- Spectroscopic investigations of phase transitions in complex solids -- Phase transitions in spin cross-over systems -- Pm3m-Fm3m Transformations of Alkali Halides -- Crystal Structure Transformations of Alkali Sulphates, Nitrates and Related Substances: Thermal Hysteresis in Reversible Transformations -- Mechanism of Crystal Structure Transformations -- Computer Simulation of Transformations in Solids -- Orientational glassy phases of C60 and neopentane. A Monte Carlo study

Comparison of positional disorder in the liquid and glassy states of hydrocarbons: dependence of disorder on molecular shapePART IV DEFECTS, NONSTOICHIOMETRY AND INTERGROWTHS -- Author's Comments on Papers 21 through 27 -- Superstructures, Ordered Defects & Nonstoichiometry in Metal Oxides of Perovskite & Related Structures -- Intergrowth Structures: The Chemistry of Solid-Solid Interfaces -- Shell-model calculation of defect energies in alkali halides employing crystal-independent interionic potential parameters

Solid state chemistry today is a frontier area of mainstream chemistry, and plays a vital role in the development of materials. The present work, consisting of a selection of Prof. C N R Rao's papers, covers most of the important aspects of solid state chemistry and provides the flavor of the subject, showing how the subject has evolved over the years. The book is up-to-date, and will be useful to students, teachers, beginning researchers and practitioners in solid state chemistry as well as in the broader area of materials science.

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