Table of Contents

STRUCTURE.

Basic Background Material.

Mother Structures of Some Binary Transition Metal Oxides.

Perovskites and Relatives.

Octahedral Tunnel Structures: Bronzes and Bronzoids.

Octahedral Intersecting Tunnel Structures: Pyrochlores and Relatives.

Octahedral Lamellar Oxides.

Close-Packed Oxides: Spinels, Hexagonal Ferrites, and Relatives.

Three-Dimensional Mixed Frameworks Involving Tetrahedra and Octahedra.

Examples of Unusual Coordination: The Vanadium Oxides.

Sheer Structures.

The Highly Complex Structural Behavior of Transition Metal Oxides.

PROPERTIES AND PHENOMENA.

Electrons in Transition Metal Oxides.

Properties of Oxide Materials.

Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Oxides in Relation to Structure.

Mixed Valence.

Metal-Nonmetal Transitions.

Low-Dimensional Oxides.

Superconducting Oxides.

Ferroics.

Results from Empirical Theory.

Understanding Electronic Structures from Electron Spectroscopy Combined with Empirical Theory.

Giant Magnetoresistance and Related Aspects.

Nanomaterials.

Catalysts and Gas Sensors.

PREPARATION OF MATERIALS.

Typical Reactions.

Ceramic Preparations.

Use of Precursors.

Topochemical and Intercalation Reactions.

Ion Exchange Method.

Alkali Flux and Electrochemical Methods.

Sol-Gel Method.

Reactions at High Pressures.

Superconducting Cuprates.

Arc and Skull Techniques.

Soft Chemical Routes.

Crystal Growth.

Concluding Remarks.

References.

Index.

About the Author

C. N. R. RAO is Albert Einstein Research Professor at the CSIR Centre of Excellence in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India.

B. RAVEAU is Professor at the Laboratoire CRISMAT, Centre des Matériaux Supraconducteurs in Caen, France.