This unique book shows how chemistry and physics come together in the
solid state and on surfaces. Using a lively, graphic, descriptive
approach, it teaches chemists the language that is necessary to
understand the electronic structure of extended systems. And, at the
same time, it demonstrates how a chemical, frontier-orbital, approach
to solid state and surface bonding and reactivity may be constructed.
The book begins with the language of crystal orbitals, band structures
and densities of states. The tools for moving back from the highly
delocalized orbitals of the solid are then built up in a transparent
manner; they include decompositions of the densities of states and
crystal orbital overlap populations. Using these tools, the book
shapes a meeting ground between detailed quantum mechanical
calculations and a chemical frontier orbital perspec- tive.
Applications include a general picture of chemisorption, bond-breaking
and making in the solid state, bonding in metals, the electronic
structure of selected conducting and supercon- ducting structures,
dissociation, migration and coupling on surfaces and the forces
controlling deformation of extended systems.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781119815143
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Wiley-Blackwell
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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