Bruce D.W., O’Hare D., Walton R.I. (Eds.) Functional Oxides

Wiley, 2010. — 320 p. — (Inorganic Materials Series). — ISBN: 978-0-470-99750-5.Metal oxides, particularly those containing one or more transition elements, for many years have been the foundation of solid-state inorganic chemistry. Here, the synthetic skill to manipulate the reactivity of diverse chemical elements, often at extreme temperatures and pressures, went hand-in-hand with developments in structural characterisation, including both spectroscopic and diffraction methods. A very good, and indeed already well-documented example, is the case of the cuprate superconductors, discovered in the early 1980s, which led to increasing complex structural chemistry and which continues to push the frontiers of knowledge of electronic properties of the solid-state. The interplay between the synthetic and structural work of chemists and the property measurement and theory of physicists led to the rapid development in understanding of a unique group of materials. When one also considers the role of the materials scientist in device fabrication of such electronic materials, the area is seen to be truly interdisciplinary.Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Characterisation Techniques
Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials
Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides
Thermoelectric Oxides
Transition Metal Oxides: Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity