Materials crystal chemistry / Relva C. Buchanan, Taeun Park

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-454) and index

Contents Preface Introduction: Materials Crystal Chemistry Ch. 1 Fundamentals of Atoms, Molecules and Solids Sect. 1 Atomic Structure Sect. 2 Molecular Structure Sect. 3 Energetics and Electronic structures of crystals Ch. 2 Fundamentals of Crystallography Sect. 1 Crystal Structure States Sect. 2 Basic concept in crystallography: Directions and Planes Sect. 3 Basic concept in crystallography: Zone and Zone axis Sect. 4 Symmetric characteristics of crystal structure Ch. 3 Crystal structures Sect. 1 Space filling of atoms Sect. 2 Metallic crystals Sect. 3 Ionic crystals Sect. 4 Covalent crystals Ch. 4 Structure Change of Crystals Sect. 1 Polymorphism Sect. 2 Modification of ideal crystal structures Sect. 3 Crystal structures of the silicates App. 1 Special functions in quantum Mechanics App. 2 Quantum mechanical background for the simple expression of the lattice energy of ionic crystals Bibliography Index