The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids

The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids shows how the electronic structures and properties of solids can be described in terms familiar to chemists. Recent years have seen a considerable growth of interest in chemical aspects of the electronic structure of solids. The first three chapters give a fairly elementary account of the topics. The later chapters present slightly more advanced aspects, including many topics of current research interest, such as metal-insulator transitions, low-dimensional solids and “molecular metals”, and the properties of surfaces. The discussion is illustrated by a wide variety of examples.