Perspectives in Solid State Chemistry is a festschrift to Professor C N R Rao, an eminent Indian Scientist and presently President, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, on his 60th Birthday. The contributors to this volume are accomplished scientists from various parts of the world: UK, France, USA, Spain, Japan, Switzerland, Russia and India.
1. Conceptual approach to chimie douce (soft chemistry)
2. Room temperature chemistry of some HTSC materials: The Li reduction of TRBa2Cu3O7 and the oxidation of La2-xSrxCuO4
3. Preparative strategies for controlling structure and morphology of metal oxides
4. Complementarity of oxygen and fluorine in the oxyfluorides: An example of tailoring in solid state chemistry
5. New Approaches to the synthesis of oxide materials
6. High pressure effects on the formation of complex cupric oxides
7. Thin film stabilization of metastable cuprate structures
8. Crystal chemistry of mercury based layered cuprates and oxycarbonates
9. Surface oxygen transients and their role in providing low energy reaction pathways
10. Reactivity of solids
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