Physics and Chemistry of Electrons and Ions in Condensed Matter

I Properties of Crystalline Materials.- The Effective U in Oxides and in Sulfides: Conceptual Phase Diagrams and their Applications.- Electron Correlations in Elementary Structures. The Case of Weak Correlations : Metallic and Covalent Bondings.- Statistical Thermodynamics of Mixed Valence at Low Temperatures.- Mixed Valency in Inorganic Chemistry.- Important Discussion of Part I.- Intermediate Valency (IV) Compounds.- Thermal Expansion and Specific Heat of Mixed Valence Compounds.- The Contribution of Solid State Chemistry to Diversification of the Studies on Metal-Insulator Transition.- The Study of Metal to Non-Metal Transitions by High Resolution Electron Spectroscopy.- Electrical Properties of Rutile Type Oxides : Doped TiO2 and RuO2.- Mixed Anion Valencies in Copper Sulfides and Selenides.- Charge Transfer and Exciton Satellites in the Photoelectron Spectra of Transition Metal Compounds.- Direct Determination of Electron Correlation in a Simple Binuclear Complex.- Hall Effect inVitreous 80 V2O5 - 20 P2O5.- Application of Group Theory to X-Ray Absorption Edge Studies.- On Discrete Symmetry Groups for Systems with an Odd Number of Electrons.- Superconductivity in the BaPb1-xBixO3 System.- II Properties of Amorphous Solids and Liquids.- Electronic Properties of Non-Crystalline Semiconductors.- Thermodynamics of Condensed Ionic Systems.- Transport Properties at the Metal-Insulator Transition in Metal Ammonia Solutions.- Electrons and Ions in Liquid and Amorphous Metals.- Molten Salts and Liquid Semiconductors : Structure and Electrical Properties.- Structure-Transport Relations in Molten Salts.- Important Discussion of Part II.- EXAFS Study of the Structure of Molten CuCl.- Bonding at Bulk and Defect Sites in Amorphous Semiconductors.- Regular Rings in Glasses.- Size Effects in Semiconductors.- Photoinduced Changes in Amorphous Chalcogens.- III Metal to Insulator Transitions.- Metal Insulator Transitions.- Magnetism and Magnetic Resonance Across the Metal-Nonmetal Transition.- X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy across the Metal to Non-metal Transition.- Thermodynamics and Electrochemistry of Sodium-Ammonia Solutions and of Solvated Electrons in Ammonia.- Solvated Electrons.- Phase Separation in Expanded Metallic Liquids.- Important Discussion of Part III.- The Properties of Doped Liquid Iodine Melts.- Low Frequency Dielectric Constant and Electrical Conductivity of Dense Mercury Vapour.- Transport Properties of Chloride and Fluoride Glass-Forming Melts, Its Relationship with Coordination Numbers.- IV Low Dimensional Materials (LDS).- IV-I Two Dimensional - LDS.- Electronic Properties of Intercalate Complexes of Layer Type Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.- Band Structure and Optical Properties of Layer Compounds.- LDS Intercalation with Donor and Acceptor Molecules.- Physico-Chemical Aspects of Intercalation Phenomena.- Important Discussion of Part IV-I.- Ag Intercalation of TiS2.- Transport and Raman Investigation of the Group IV Layered Compoundsand their Lithium Intercalates.- Ion-Electron Interaction and Intercalation Induced Semiconductor to Metal Transition in the Intercalated Dichalcogenide LixZrSe2.- Charge Density Waves in the Mo Bronzes : CDW Transport in One Dimensional K0.30MoO3 and CDW Instability in Two-Dimensional K0.9Mo6O17.- A Survey of the Origins of Incommensurate Behaviour and of New Materials Illuminating the CDW Field.- Intercalation of Tetrathiafulvalene and Related Molecules into FeC1.- A Graphite Intercalation Compound as Applied to Battery Electrode Materials.- IV - 2 Organic Conductors.- Conducting Organic Solids.- Organic Superconductors : Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors, Anomalous Superconductors, Promising Materials.- Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers.- Important Discussion of Part IV-2.- Unusual Electronic Soliton States of the Infinite Polyyne Chain -(C = C)-x.- A Narrow Window for Superconductivity in Organic Conductors.- Properties of Organic Salts of TMTSF and TMTTF.- The Effects of Oxidation on the Electrical Properties of Organic Conjugated Polymers.- Anisotropy of Thermopower in MEM(TCNQ)2.- IV - 3 Inversion Layers.- Localisation and Interaction Effects in the 2D Electron Gas of the Silicon Inversion Layer.- Important Discussion of Part IV - 3.- The Effects of Hydrogen on MOS Structures.- Transport Theory for High-Resistivity Conductors.- XPS Investigation of the Electronic Structure of Highly Dispersed MnO on Carbon Foil.- Angle Resolved Photoemission and Secondary Electron Emission Study of Single Crystal Graphite.- IV - 4 Fast Ionic Conductors.- Fast Ionic Conduction in Solids.- What Factors May Increase Superionic Conductivity?.- List of Participants.- Author Index.