Solid State Chemistry today is a frontier area of mainstream chemistry, and plays a vital role in the development of materials. The present work, consisting of a selection of Prof. C N R Rao's papers, covers most of the important aspects of solid state chemistry and provides the flavour of the subject, showing how the subject has evolved over the years. The book is up-to-date, and will be useful to students, teachers, beginning researchers and practitioners in solid state chemistry as well as in the broader area of materials science.
Four decades of research in solid state chemistry; synthesis and characterization; phase transitions; defects, nonstoichiometry and intergrowths; transition metal oxides; high-temperature superconductivity; catalysts, metal clusters and fullerenes.