The major ternary structural families
by Olaf Muller - Roy, Rustum
Publicado em 1974, Springer-Verlag (New York)
Crystal chemistry of non-metallic materials,, 4
Paginação: ix, 487 p.
The Major Ternary Structural Families
In an era when books come off the presses at an astonishing rate determined by competitive, international, entrepreneurial skills, it is indeed a remarkable fact that the last American book bearing the title "Crystal Chemistry", authored by C. W. STILLWELL, was published in 1938. This very useful book, partly a textbook and partly a reference book, has been out of print for nearly 20 years. The only other with a similar title, "An Introduction to Crystal Chemistry," by R. C. EVANS of Cambridge University, published in 1939 (Second Edition 1964), is more of a textbook with very little tabular material or reference data.
These facts are even more remarkable when one considers that in the thirty odd years since these books were published, the field of solid state science (materials science) has become a major component of the physical sciences and engineering. Furthermore, solid state science has
to date been almost exclusively "crystal" science, and one might then have expected a roughly equal balance of crystal physics and crystal chemistry. The existing imbalance reflects accurately the domination, to date, of the science of solids by physicists. This unhealthy situation is slowly being corrected. Solid-state chemistry1 is very slowly taking shape as a science around the need to prepare new phases or old materials in special forms, to analyze or characterize solids with a
precision commensurate with the precision of the many physical measurements now being made. This series of books represents a contribution towards that end.
Crystal chemistry treats the interaction of the structure (or atomic arrangement) with the intensive and extensive thermodynamic parameters describing the environment (mainly composition, temperature
and pressure). The purpose of this series of books is to bring together both the structural and the thermodynamic aspects of the subject. While on the one hand we have several compilations or descriptions of structures and tables of structural data and, on the other, inorganic chemistry texts treating systematically compositional families, element by element, there is a marked absence of books which relate one to the other.
This series groups related sets of structural-compositional families as indicated later, and each volume provides a comprehensive overview of the details of the crystal structure (including distortions, order-
disorder, super-structure, etc.) of the families involved, the compositions accepted into a particular structure (including limits of crystalline solution), the influence of pressure and temperature on the structure and the phase transitions involved, and lastly, the relation of important or useful physical properties to the structure-composition character. The aim within each volume will be to develop a framework to clarify relationships among structures and structural families and their composition and p - t dependencies. The first volume of the series, which will soon be published will serve both as a textbook and an attempt to develop the emerging inductively-derived principles of crystal chemistry.
The series as a whole is addressed to two audiences. The first is the practicing materials researcher - whatever his original training and discipline. A very large community exists in the industrial research
laboratories, with a wide diversity of training which has seldom been provided even the most cursory acquaintance with the chemistry of the non-metallics. Yet in the course of his work as a semiconductor physicist concerned with oxide layers or glassy switching devices, as a
polymer scientist involved with inorganic pigments or filamentary reinforcers, or as a metallurgist studying corrosion layers of insulating "intermetallics", he frequently has need to know about the crystal chemistry (as defined above) of a non-metallic phase. The separate volumes in this series should provide some of the background needed to understand the material of interest and to set it into a context of related structures and compositions. It is hoped that showing the interrelationships will be of particular value to the "non-specialist". There will generally be a large number of tables of material which have been selected and collated into what is, hopefully, the most useful form.
The second audience to which this series is addressed is typified by the graduate student in departments of materials science, ceramics, geochemistry and occasionally, chemistry and physics. It is hoped that together this series will provide both a textbook and a reference set for studying all classes of inorganic, non-metallic materials.
The style of the latter volumes in the series, then, is designed to provide a critical review of a field, to make it useful to the non-specialist research worker or graduate student attempting to inform himself
about the "state of the art" in a particular non-metallic material class or family. It is expected that each of the critical reviews when read together with the initial volume giving the overall survey of principles
will then provide a vademecum for solid state chemists, ceramists, and geochemists, and an authoritative reference work and summary for physicists and engineers.
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