Description: Building a foundation with a thorough description of crystalline structures, it presents a wider range of the synthetic and physical techniques used to prepare and characterize solids. It now contains a section on fuel cells and electrochromic materials, and covers conducting organic polymers, organic superconductors and fullerenes. Other new topics include mesoporous solids and ALPOs, photonics, giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), and p-wave (triplet) superconductors. An entire new chapter in this edition looks at the solid-state chemical aspects of nanoscience.