Trends in chemistry of materials : selected research papers of C.N.R. Rao / C.N.R. Rao.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Some highlights of materials chemistry. 1. Novel materials, materials design and synthetic strategies: recent advances and new directions (1999). 2. Chemical synthesis of solid inorganic materials (1993). 3. Superstructures, ordered defects and nonstoichiometry in metal oxides of perovskite and related structures (with J. Gopalakrishnan and K. Vidyasagar, 1984). 4. Intergrowth structures: the chemistry of solid-solid interfaces (with J.M. Thomas, 1985). 5. Virtues of marginally metallic oxides (1996). 6. Experimental and theoretical electronic charge densities in molecular crystals (with G.U. Kulkarni and R.S. Gopalan, 2000). 7. Solid state properties of fullerenes and related materials (with R. Seshadri, 1994) -- II. Phase transitions in solids. 8. Phase transitions and the chemistry of solids (1984). 9. Pm3m-Fm3m transformations of alkali halides: solid solutions of CsCI with KCI, CsBr and SrCI[symbol] (with M. Natarajan and K.J. Rao, 1970). 10. Mechanism of crystal structure transformations: pt. 3. Factors affecting the anatase -- rutile transformation (with S.R. Yoganarasimhan, 1962). 11. Computer simulation of transformation in solids (with S. Yashonath, 1987). 12. A Monte Carlo study of the condensed phases of biphenyl (with A. Chakrabarti and S. Yashonath, 1995). 13. The metal-nonmetal transition: a global perspective (with P.P. Edwards and T.V. Ramakrishnan, 1995). 14. Polymerization and pressure-induced amorphization of [symbol] and [symbol] (with A. Govindaraj, H.N. Aiyer and R. Seshadri, 1995). 15. Phase transformations of mesoporous zirconia (with Neeraj, 1998) -- III. Transition metal oxides: superconductivity, charge-ordering, electronic phase separation and multiferroic. 16. Electron microscopy of ferroelectric bismuth oxides containing perovskite layers (with J.L. Hutchison and J.S. Anderson, 1997). 17. Crystal chemistry and magnetic properties of layered metal oxides possessing the [symbol] or related structures (with P. Ganguly, 1984). 18. Chemical insights into high-temperature superconductors (1991). 19. Structure-property relationships in superconducting cuprates (with A.K. Ganguli, 1995). 20. Stripes and superconductivity in cuprates -- is there a connection? (with N. Kumar, 2003). 21. Charge, spin, and orbital ordering in the perovskite manganates, [symbol] (Ln = rare earth, A = Ca or Sr)(2000). 22. Electron-hole asymmetry in the rare-earth manganates: a comparative study of the hole- and electron-doped materials (with K. Vijaya Sarathy [and others], 2001). 23. Electronic phase separation and other novel phenomena and properties exhibited by mixed-valent rare-earth manganites and related materials (with V.B. Shenoy, 2008). 24. New routes to multiferroics (with C.R. Serrao, 2007). 25. Glassy behaviour of the ferromagnetic and the non-magnetic insulating states of the rare earth manganates [symbol] (Ln = Nd or Gd) (with Asish K. Kundu and P. Nordblad, 2006) -- IV. Open-framework and hybrid network materials. 26. Aufbau principle of complex open-framework structures of metal phosphates with different dimensionalities (with S. Natarajan [and others], 2001). 27. Transformations of molecules and secondary building units to materials: a bottom-up approach (with R. Murugavel [and others], 2004). 28. Organically templated metal sulfates, selenites and selenates (with J.N. Behera and M. Dan, 2006). 29. Coordination polymers and hybrid networks of different dimensionalities formed by metal sulfites (with K.P. Rao, 2007). 30. Hybrid structures formed by lead 1,3-cyc1ohexanedicarboxylates (with A. Thirumurugan and R.A. Sanguramath, 2008). 31. Synthesis and magnetic properties of an amine-templated Fe[symbol] (S = 2) Sulfate with a distorted Kagome structure (with J.N. Behera, 2006). 32. Synthesis structure and magnetic properties of an amine-template Mn[symbol] (S = 5/2) sulfate with the Kagome structure (with J.N. Behera, 2007). 33. Structural diversity and chemical trends in hybrid inorganic-organic framework materials (with A.K. Cheetham and R.K. Feller, 2006). 34. An organic channel structure formed by the supramolecular assembly of trithiocyanuric acid and 4,4'-bipyridyl (with A. Ranganathan, V.R. Pedireddi and S. Chatterjee, 1999). 35. Hydrothermal synthesis of organic channel structures: 1:1 hydrogen-bonded adducts of melamine with cyanuric and trithiocyanuric acids (with A. Ranganathan and V.R. Pedireddi, 1999) -- V. Nanomaterials. 36. Size-dependent chemistry: properties of nanocrystals (with G.U. Kulkarni, P.J. Thomas and P.P. Edwards, 2002). 37. Magic nuc1earity giant clusters of metal nanocrystals formed by mesoscale self-assembly (with P.J. Thomas and G.U. Kulkarni, 2001). 38. Carbon nanotubes from organometallic precursors (with A. Govindaraj, 2002). 39. Inorganic nanotubes (with M. Nath, 2003). 40. Synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials (with S.R.C. Vivekchand, K. Biswas and A. Govindaraj, 2007). 41. Water-solubilized aminoc1ay-metal nanopartic1e composites and their novel properties (with K.K.R Datta and M. Eswaramoorthy, 2007). 42. Growth kinetics of ZnO nanorods: capping-dependent mechanism and other interesting features (with K. Biswas and B. Das, 2008). 43. Dip-pen lithography with magnetic [symbol] nanocrystals (with G. Gundiah [and others], 2004). 44. The liquid-liquid interface as a medium to generate nanocrystalline films of inorganic materials (with K.P. Kalyanikutty, 2008). 45. Use of fluorous chemistry in the solubilization and phase transfer of nanocrystals, nanorods and nanotubes (with R. Voggu, K. Biswas and A. Govindaraj, 2006). 46. Ferromagnetism as a universal feature of nanoparticles of the otherwise nonmagnetic oxides (with A. Sundaresan [and others], 2006). 47. MnO and NiO nano particles: synthesis and magnetic properties (with M. Ghosh, K. Biswas and A. Sundaresan, 2006). 48. Assembling covalently linked nanocrystals and nanotubes through click chemistry (with R. Voggu, P. Suguna and S. Chandrasekaran, 2007). 49. A calorimetric investigation of the assembly of gold nanorods to form necklaces (with N. Varghese, S.R.C. Vivekchand and A. Govindaraj, 2008). 50. New method of purification of carbon nanotubes based on hydrogen treatment (with S.R.C. Vivekchand, A Govindaraj and Md. Motin Seikh, 2004). 51. Nitrogen- and boron-doped double-walled carbon nanotubes (with L.S. Panchakarla and A. Govindaraj, 2007). 52. Nature and electronic properties of Y-junctions in CNTs and N-doped CNTs obtained by the pyrolysis of organometallic precursors (with F.L. Deepak [and others], 2005). 53. Hydrogel-assisted synthesis of nanotubes and nanorods of CdS, ZnS and CuS, showing some evidence for oriented attachment (with K.P. Kalyanikutty, M. Nikhila and U. Maitra, 2006). 54. Synthesis, structure and properties of homogeneous BC[symbol]N nanotubes (with K. Raidongia [and others], 2008). 55. Functionalization and solubilization of BN nanotubes by interaction with Lewis bases (with S. Pal, S.R.C. Vivekchand and A. Govindaraj, 2007). 56. GaS and GaSe nanowalls and their transformation to [symbol] and GaN nanowalls (with U.K. Gautam, S.R.C. Vivekchand and A. Govindaraj, 2005). 57. Nanorotors using asymmetric inorganic nanorods in an optical trap (with M. Khan, A.K. Sood and F.L. Deepak, 2006). 58. Mechanical properties of inorganic nanowire reinforced polymer-matrix composites (with S.R.C. Vivekchand and U. Ramamurthy, 2006). 59. Ammonia sensors based on metal oxide nanostructures (with C.S. Rout, M. Hegde and A. Govindaraj, 2007). 60. Study of graphenes prepared by different methods: characterization, properties and solubilization (with K. Subramanyam, S.R.C. Vivekchand and A. Govindaraj, 2008).

In this collection, the author has compiled a set of his papers representing some of the highlights of materials chemistry. It features a section on oxidic materials, which includes high-temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, electronic phase separation and multiferroics. The author has also included novel methods for making gallium nitride, boron nitride and such materials, by using precursors and the urea decomposition route. Moreover, there is a section dealing with open-framework and hybrid materials of which the latter has a great future since one can make use of the rigidity of inorganic structures and the functionality and flexibility of the organic residues to design materials with novel properties.

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