Essentials of Inorganic Materials Synthesis

C. N. R. Rao · Kanishka Biswas

Apr 2015 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this eBook

This compact handbook describes all the important methods of synthesis employed today for synthesizing inorganic materials.

Some features:

• Focuses on modern inorganic materials with applications in nanotechnology, energy materials, and sustainability
• Synthesis is a crucial component of materials science and technology; this book provides a simple introduction as well as an updated description of methods
• Written in a very simple style, providing references to the literature to get details of the methods of preparation when required

About the author

C.N.R. Rao, D.Sc., Ph.D,is the National Research Professor and Linus Pauling Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, at Bangalore, India. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, London, a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a member of many other science academies. He is the recipient of the Einstein Gold Medal of UNESCO, the Hughes and Royal Medals of the Royal Society, the August Wilhelm von Hofmann medal of the German Chemical Society, the Dan David Prize and the Illy Trieste Science prize for materials research and the first India Science Prize.

Kanishka Biswas, Ph.D, is Ramanujan Fellow in the New Chemistry Unit of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. He is an Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He is pursuing research in solid state chemistry of metal chalcogenides and thermoelectric "waste heat to electrical energy conversion".