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Review title: Good book for materials scientists
Product review: This is a good book for students and practicioners of materials science and engineering. Unlike traditional books in materials science which focus on properties and crystal structure, this book delves into synthesis out of elements, and how the chemical composition of a material in turn determines the properties and crystal structure. The book gives good coverage to different classes of materials such as borides, oxides, carbides, nitrides, alloys, intermetallics, and glasses. The book also gives a good overview of the different types of materials (and their physical origins) that materials are selected for. These include piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, phase transition temperatures, elastic constants, Debye temperature, etc... The text is accessible for engineers, chemists, and physicists, and is accompanied by many helpful illustrations and diagrams. I recommend this as good reading for materials engineers and scientists.
