Preparative Methods in Solid State Chemistry

Paul Hagenmuller

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780123133502
• eBook ISBN: 9780323144360
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

Preparative Methods in Solid State Chemistry deals with the preparative methods used in solid state chemistry and highlights the importance of the chemist's role in preparing materials of desired quality as well as obtaining materials according to the requirements of the user such as the physicist. Topics covered range from high-pressure techniques in preparative chemistry to methods of growing single crystals of high-melting-point oxides. This book is comprised of 14 chapters and begins with an overview of possibilities for high-pressure synthesis, as well as the methods used to obtain high pressures, including transmission by gaseous or liquid fluids or in the solid state. The method of shock waves is then considered both from the point of view of thermodynamics and thermoelasticity, along with the possibility of using superpressures for evidently revolutionary applications. Subsequent chapters focus on the synthesis of single crystals of refractory oxides either at high temperatures (essentially liquid-solid transformations) or at lower temperatures in the presence of a solvent or a chemical reagent. The production of single crystals by electrolytic reduction in molten salts is also described. Numerous examples of vapor transport reactions in a temperature gradient are presented. This monograph should be of interest to chemists and students of solid state chemistry.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Preparative Methods in Solid State Chemistry
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. High-Pressure Synthesis†
• Chapter 2. High-Pressure Techniques in Preparative Chemistry
• Chapter 3. Syntheses under Shock-Wave Pressures
• Chapter 4. Modern Methods of Growing Single Crystals of High-Melting-Point Oxides
• Chapter 5. Chemical Transport as a Preparative Procedure+
• Chapter 6. Preparation of Transition Metal Compounds by Electrolytic Reduction of Fused Salts
• Chapter 7. Preparation of Single Crystals of III–V Compounds
• Chapter 8. Preparation of CdS Single Crystals by Epitaxial Growth on Germanium Substrates
• Chapter 9. Oriented Eutectic Crystallization
• Chapter 10. Preparative Methods for Solid Fluorine Compounds
• Chapter 11. Boron Syntheses
• Chapter 12. Preparation Conditions of the Ferrites
• Chapter 13. Preparation of Transition-Metal Carbides and Related Compounds
• Chapter 14. Preparation of Chalcogenides and Pnyctides at Low Temperature
• Author Index
• Subject Index