Applied Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 3: From Magnetic to Bioactive Materials

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This work provides the broad range of applications of inorganic compounds. Due to their well defined properties they play an important role in many fields either on a large scale in our daily life or as niche products. Experts from industry and academia present the vast amount of distinguished materials focusing on their synthesis and function. Preface Contents List of contributors Volume 3 (From Magnetic to Bioactive Materials) 9 Electronic and magnetic materials 9.1 Semiconductors 9.2 Superconductors 9.3 Inorganic materials for chemical sensors 9.4 Transparent conducting oxides 9.5 Inorganic detector materials 9.6 Soft magnets 9.7 Permanent magnets 9.8 Data storage materials 9.9 Piezo- and pyroelectric materials 10 Technical ceramics and hard materials 10.1 Sanitary ceramics, tableware, porcelain 10.2 Separation membranes 10.3 Functional ceramics 10.4 Structural ceramics 10.5 Refractories 10.6 Carbides, borides, silicides 10.7 Abrasives and hard transition metal oxides 10.8 Surface hardening and hard coatings 11 Carbon- and sulfur-based materials 11.1 Carbon 11.2 Sulfur 12 Water, mineral acids and bases 13 Biomedical and bioactive materials 13.1 Disinfection and inorganic biocides 13.1.1 Hydrogen peroxide and ozone 13.1.2 Chlorine-based disinfectants 13.1.3 Iodine-based disinfection materials 13.1.4 Copper-based biocides 13.1.5 Antifouling coatings 13.2 Radiotracers for diagnostic imaging 13.3 Radiotherapeutics 13.4 Active inorganic drugs and excipients 13.5 Inorganic biomaterials 14 Criticality of inorganic resources 15 Toxicology of inorganic compounds 16 Chemical products: gradients, energy balances, entropy Subject index Formula index