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The expanded edition focuses still more on Synthesis discussing necessary requirements for sample preparation and presents the broad range from structural analysis to property investigations. Additional examples of chemical and physical properties are highlighted for metallic, binary and multinary intermetallic compounds.

The work contains an up-dated literature overview in all sub-chapters and a detailed formulae index.

The expanded edition focuses still more on Synthesis discussing necessary requirements for sample preparation and presents the broad range from structural analysis to property investigations. Additional examples of chemical and physical properties are highlighted for metallic, binary and multinary intermetallic compounds.

The work contains an up-dated literature overview in all sub-chapters and a detailed formulae index.

The 3rd, updated and expanded edition summarizes basic data for the synthesis and crystal chemistry of binary/ternary intermetallic phases and gives a concise outlook on the many physical properties. It discusses selected examples from the huge family of intermetallic compounds from a solid state chemistry point of view. New chapters on corrosion, memory metals and medical implant materials.

Intermetallic compounds play an extraordinary role in daily life for construction materials and well-defined functions that are based on their specific chemical and physical properties, e.g. magnetism and superconductivity. High-tech materials are meanwhile indispensable in our technology-driven information society.

The Periodic Table comprises more than 80 metallic elements which offer an incredible potential for formation of binary, ternary and even multinary intermetallic compounds with peculiar crystal structures and properties. The present textbook introduces into the basics of intermetallic chemistry with an emphasis on crystal chemistry and selected chemical and physical properties.