Solid state chemistry: an introduction. 3rd Edition. By Lesley E. Smart and Elaine A. Moore. Pp. 407. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis CRC Press, 2005. Price (softcover) USD 69.95. ISBN 0 748 77516 1.

Building a foundation with a thorough description of crystalline structures, the book presents a wide range of the synthetic and physical techniques used to prepare and characterize solids. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction has now been reduced to make way for a wider range of other techniques. The authors have added sections on fuel cells and electrochromic materials; conducting organic polymers, organic superconductors and fullerenes; mesoporous solids and ALPOs; photonics; giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and colossal magnetoresistance (CMR); and p-wave (triplet) superconductors. The book also includes a completely new chapter, which examines the solid-state chemical aspects of nanoscience. Each chapter contains a set of review questions and an accompanying solutions manual is available. Contents: 1, Introduction to crystal structures; 2, Physical methods of characterizing solids; 3, Preparative methods; 4, Bonding in solids and electronic properties; 5, Defects and non-stoichiometry; 6, Carbon-based electronics; 7, Zeolites and related structures; 8, Optical properties of solids; 9, Magnetic and dielectric properties; 10, Superconductivity; 11, Nanoscience.