Functional Oxides

Functional oxides have a wide variety of applications in the electronic industry. The discovery of new metal oxides with interesting and useful properties continues to drive much research in chemistry, physics, and materials science.In Functional Oxides five topical areas have been selected to illustrate the importance of metal oxides in modern materials chemistry: Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides Thermoelectric Oxides Transition Metal Oxides - Magnetoresistance and Half-MetallicityThe contents highlight structural chemistry, magnetic and electronic properties, ionic conduction and other emerging areas of importance, such as thermoelectricity and spintronics.Functional Oxides covers these complex concepts in a clear and accessible manner providing an excellent introduction to this broad subject area.Additional volumes in the Inorganic Materials Series:Low-Dimensional Solids Molecular Materials Porous Materials Energy Materials

Professor Duncan Bruce graduated from the University of Liverpool (UK), where he also gained his PhD. In 1984, he took up a Temporary Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and was awarded a Royal Society Warren Research Fellowship. He was then appointed Lecturer in Chemistry and was promoted Senior Lecturer in 1994, in which year he became co-director of the Sheffield Centre for Molecular Materials. In 1995, he was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Exeter. Following the closure of Exeter's chemistry department in 2005, Professor Bruce took up his present position as Professor of Materials Chemistry in York. He is currently Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Chemistry Forum. His current research interests include liquid crystals and nanoparticle-doped, nanostructured, mesoporous silicates. His work has been recognized by various awards including the British Liquid Crystal Society's first Young Scientist prize and the RSC's Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship and Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize. He has held visiting positions in Australia, France, Japan and Italy.

Dr. Richard Walton, who was also formerly based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Exeter, now works in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. His research group works in the area of solid-state materials chemistry and has a number of projects focusing upon the synthesis, structural characterization and properties of inorganic materials.

Dermot O'Hare is Professor in the Chemistry Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford.

His research group has a wide range of research interests. They all involve synthetic chemistry ranging from organometallic chemistry to the synthesis of new microporous solids.

Duncan Bruce and Dermot O'Hare have edited several editions of Inorganic Materials published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Inorganic Materials Preface
Preface
List of Contributors
Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials: Synthetic Strategies and Characterization Techniques
Introduction
Properties Associated with Noncentrosymmetric Materials
Outlook Multifunctional Materials
Concluding Thoughts
Acknowledgements
References
Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials
Geometric Frustration
Real Materials
References
Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides
Introduction
Sodium and Lithium ß-alumina
Akali Metal Sulfates and the Effect of Anion Disorder on Conductivity
LISICON and Related Phases
Lithium conduction in NaSICON-related phases
Doped Analogues of LiZr₂(PO₄)₃
Lithium conduction in the Perovskite Structure
Lithium Containing Garnets
References
Thermoelectric Oxides
Introduction
How to optimize Thermoelectric Generators (TEG)
Thermoelectric oxides
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Transition Metal Oxides - Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity
Introduction
Magnetoresistance: Concepts and Developments
Half-Metallicity
Oxides Exhibiting Half-Metallicity
Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity of Double Perovskites
Spintronics The Emerging Magneto-electronics
Summary
Acknowledgments
References
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