Chemistry of Advanced Materials

This is to be initial, 'overview' volume of a series on the "Chemistry of Advanced Materials". This series of volumes is intented to complement VCH's existing series on "Materials Science and Technology" and, in particular, to highlight the role of chemistry in the preparation and processing of advanced materials. The introductory volume in the series is intented to "set the stage" for the succeeding volumes and to introduce the subject of materials chemistry to a general audience of scientifically literate nonspecialists. Subjects covered in this intitial volume will eventually be the subject of one or more individual volumes in the series. This series is directed to a broad audience of chemists and materials scientists. This volume, in particular, should be appropriate for a general scientific audience and be of interest, as well as comprehensible, even to undergraduate students in chemistry and materials science.Dieser Band wendet sich an Materialwissenschaftler und Chemiker; die Bedeutung der Chemie für die Synthese, industrielle Herstellung und Verarbeitung hochwertiger Spezialwerkstoffe steht im Mittelpunkt. Mit historischen Informationen und Ansatzpunkten für Ihre zukünftige Forschungstätigkeit! Gleichermaßen interessant für erfahrene Anwender und Einsteiger. From the Contents:

Materials Chemistry: Past, Present and Future/
Molecular Magnetics, Metals and Superconductors/
Advanced Polymeric Materials -
High Performance Polymers/CVD /Nanophase Materials /
Nanoporous Materials (zeolites, pillared clays etc.)/
Molecular Precursor Routes to Inorganic Solids/
Materials Currently in Biomedical Usage. Aus dem Inhalt:

Materials Chemistry: Past, Present and Future/
Molecular Magnetics, Metals and Superconductors/
Advanced Polymeric Materials -
High Performance Polymers/CVD /Nanophase Materials /
Nanoporous Materials (zeolites, pillared clays etc.)/
Molecular Precursor Routes to Inorganic Solids/
Materials Currently in Biomedical Usage. "On the whole the book will sensitize the minds of the readers and will snowball their interest to undertake future research program to help turn material fantasy into possibility to ultimate reality." (Indian Jnl of Chemical Technology, July 2001)

LEONARD V. INTERRANTE, PhD, is Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is Editor of the ACS journal, Chemistry of Materials.

MARK J. HAMPDEN-SMITH, PhD, is Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Chemistry has a vital role to play in materials processing and in the development of new materials that can meet the changing needs of today's technology. This volume addresses both the basic underlying principles and the technological relevance of major topics in advanced materials chemistry, including:
* Electron transfer salt-based conductors, superconductors, and magnets
* Advanced polymeric materials-functional electroactive polymers
* Polymers in electronics
* Chemical vapor deposition
* An introduction to the nonlinear optical properties of organic materials
* Nanoparticles and nanostructural materials
* Nanoporous materials
* Molecular precursor routes to inorganic solids
* Layered transition metal oxides and chalcogenides
* Biomaterials

Bringing together a battery of important information in a single source, this stand-alone reference is an invaluable companion for aspiring and practicing organic, inorganic, solid-state, and surface chemists, as well as polymer and materials scientists.