Following the success of Inorganic Materials, the concept of the original book will be updated and extended to reflect the recent expansion of research and applications in inorganic material chemistry, and its interfaces with physics, biology and materials science.[...]

Whereas the first five volumes in the Inorganic Materials Series focused on particular classes of materials (synthesis, structures, chemistry, and properties), it is now very timely to provide complementary volumes that introduce and review state-of-the-art techniques for materials characterizatio[...]