Solid state chemistry : selected papers of C.N.R. Rao /
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Author / Creator: | Rao, C. N. R. (Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra), 1934- |
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Imprint: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, 1995. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 718 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | World Scientific series in 20th century chemistry ; vol. 4 World Scientific series in 20th century chemistry ; vol. 4. |
Subject: | Solid state chemistry. SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Physical & Theoretical. Solid state chemistry. FestkoĢrperchemie Electronic books. Electronic books. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187984 |
Table of Contents:
- ""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 Oxides""""A 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 20""""Phase 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 shape""""PART 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""