Short Notes on Applied and Advanced Inorganic Materials Chemistry

These short notes on current inorganic materials chemistry are written for mainly those who are interested to know about inorganic materials chemistry. I have taken steps to write it in simple words, and this is ease to read and is understandable very well. Thus, I start it with various experimental methods available to synthesize inorganic oxides and non-oxides. Then, very briefly, three important structures are described along with Bragg's equation. It follows then some recent developments that have been and will be occurred. Finally, new directions required in the area of open framework materials and photo-splitting of water are summarized. I assume that undergraduate students might get interested to pursue further research in inorganic materials chemistry after reading the short notes.

I am a Synthetic Inorganic Chemist with a good experience in materials chemistry. Now, I am employed in PhosphorTech Corporation, USA as a research scientist. I have postdoctoral experiences in Japan, South Africa and USA. I obtained Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Science, India in 1996. My research work has been focused on various technologically useful advanced inorganic materials. My contribution to science more than 20 publications in internationally renewed journals evidences importance of my research. In fact, the American professor, Timothy R Hughbanks, USA highlighted part of my work in chemistry and Industry magazine (March 15, 1999). Further, very recently, one of my papers has been cited in CRC book (2004), Inorganic Phosphors. Of late, my two papers have been selected in the top 25 in the journal of alloys and compounds.