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Nearly 40 years have passed since the First Edition of this book was published. In the intervening years, two editions of a slimmed down, student version, Basic Solid State Chemistry were published, followed by the Student Edition of what has ultimately become this, the Second Edition. And, several Nobel prizes have been awarded for Solid State Chemistry‐related discoveries! Although several changes to chapter titles and organisation of the main topics have been made, this Second Edition aims still to cover the fundamental science behind the synthesis, structures including defect structures, characterisation, properties and applications of inorganic materials. Relevant aspects of chemistry, physics and materials science are drawn upon to provide a coherent overview of Solid State Chemistry. In the First Edition, an introductory chapter was entitled ‘What is Solid State Chemistry’. With the passage of time, that is felt to be no longer necessary, but instead, is replaced by ‘Solid state chemistry: an overview of the discipline’ which shows the overlap with, and evolution of, emerging areas of Materials Chemistry and Nanomaterials. Organic materials are not excluded, but do not feature strongly here, nor do inorganic‐organic composite or hybrid materials; these are better covered in works on Materials Chemistry.

The major additions to this second edition are many and include: a more extensive overview of the crystal structures of important families of inorganic solids including spinels, perovskites, tungsten bronzes, garnets, pyrochlores and many more; an easy to use, bespoke CrystalMaker® software, accompanied by more than 100 crystal structure models, that can be downloaded free and used to examine these structures on one’s own computer; new methods to synthesise inorganic solids, including sol‐gel methods and thin film deposition techniques such as PLD, MBE, spray pyrolysis, as well as CVD for fabrication of diamond films and amorphous silicon; newer techniques of electron microscopy including EPMA, EELS, Auger, CL and HAADF/Z contrast STEM; major advances in electrical properties of materials, including cuprate superconductors (Nobel prize, 1987), graphene (Nobel prize, 2010), fibre optic communications (Nobel prize, 2009), neutron diffraction and spectroscopy (Nobel prize, 1994), NMR spectroscopy (Nobel prize, 1991), electron microscopy (Nobel prize, 1986), fullerenes (Nobel prize, 1996), polyacetylene (Nobel prize, 2000), lithium batteries (Nobel prize, 2018) and solid oxide fuel cells; novel developments in optical properties, including semiconductor lasers and blue LEDs (Nobel prize, 2014), fibre optics, solar cells and transparent conducting oxides; advances in magnetic properties including giant and colossal magnetoresistance (Nobel prize, 2007), quasicrystals (Nobel prize, 2011) and multiferroic materials; homogeneous and heterogeneous ceramics together with an overview of the new impedance spectroscopy technique and its applications; thermoelectric materials and their applications; multifunctional materials, including MXenes, graphene, other 2D layered structures, TiO₂ nanomaterials and Ca₁₂Al₁₄O₃₃ superconducting electride. Coverage of the traditional structural materials of glass, cement and concrete, refractories and high temperature ceramics is expanded to include new developments in fluoride glasses for fibre optics, bioglass for tissue engineering applications, geopolymers and novel cements.

Anthony R. West

Sheffield

February 2022