General

Bruce, D.W., O’Hare, D.  and Walton, R.I.   (2010) Molecular Materials, John Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
Rao, C.N.R.   (2012) Modern Aspects of Solid-State Chemistry, Springer.
Segal, D.   (2017) Materials for the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Tilley, R.   (2013) Understanding Solids: The Science of Materials, 2nd edition, Wiley, Chichester.
West, A.R.   (2022) Solid-State Chemistry and Its Applications, 2nd edition, John Wiley and sons, New York.
White, M.A.   (2019) Physical Properties of Materials, 3rd edition, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Woodward Patrick M., Pavel Karen, John S. O. Evans, Thomas Vogt, (2021) Solid State Materials Chemistry, Cambridge University Press

MIT open course ware https://ocw.mit.ed     USA
CETU 24 India

Chapter 1

Cotton, F.A.   (1990) Chemical Applications of Group Theory, 3rd edition, Wiley, New York.
Hahn, Th.   (Ed.) (2005) International Tables for Crystallography, vol. A, 5th edition, Space Group Symmetry: Brief Teaching Edition (print); and (2016) 2nd online edition, International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Chester. ISBN: 978-0-470-97423-0.
Hammond, C.   (2015) The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction, International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)/Oxford Science Publications. ISBN: 978-0-19-873868-8.
Ladd, M.   (1998) Symmetry and Group Theory in Chemistry, Woodhead Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-898563-39-6.
Li, W. K. ,  Zhou, G. D.  and  Mak, T.   (2008) Advanced Structural Inorganic Chemistry, International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Chester.

https://physicsworld.com/a/quasicrystal-found-in-fossilized-lightning/

Chapter 2

Beis, K.  and  Evans, G.   (Eds.) (2018) Protein Crystallography: Challenges and Practical Solutions, Royal Society of Chemistry.
Bilinga SJL. 2019 The rise of the X-ray atomic pair distribution functionmethod: a series of fortunate events. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 377: 20180413.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0413
Cullity, B.D.   (1978) Elements of X-ray Diffraction, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN: 0201011743.
Dinnebier, R.E.  and Bilinge, S.J.L.   (2008) Powder Diffraction: Theory and Practice, RSC Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-85404-231-9.
Ladd, Mark and Palmer, Rex, (2013) Structure determination by X-ray crystallography, 5th edition, Springer.

Chapter 3

Martz, H.E. ,  Logan, C.M. ,  Schneberk, Daniel M.J.  and  Shull, P.J.   (2016) X-Ray Imaging: Fundamentals, Industrial Techniques and Applications, 1st edition, CRC Press. ISBN: 9780849397721.
Microscopy Australia https://myscope.training/
Russo, P.   (2018) Handbook of X-ray Imaging: Physics and Technology, 1st edition, CRC Press. ISBN: 9781498741521.
Willmott, P.   (2019) An Introduction to Synchrotron Radiation: Techniques and Applications, 2nd edition, Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-119-28039-2.
https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Public/How-we-work/Explore-Diamond.html

Chapter 4

Ashokkumar, M.   (2016) Ultrasonic Synthesis of Functional Materials, Springer Briefs in Molecular Science.
Biswas, K.  and  Rao, C.N.R.   (2015) Essentials of Inorganic Materials Synthesis, John Wiley and Sons Inc, New York. ISBN: 978-1-118-89266-4.
Lalena, J.N., Cleary, D.A. ,  Carpenter, E.  and Dean, N.F.   (2008) Inorganic Materials Synthesis and Fabrication, Wiley-Blackwell, New York.
Wright, J.D.  and Sommerdijk, N.A.J.M.   (2000) Sol–Gel Materials: Chemistry and Applications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Chapter 5

From a more chemical perspective:

Buchel, W.   (2004) Superconductivity – Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley-VCH.
Canadell, E. ,  Doublet, M. L.  and  Iung, C.   (2016) Orbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids, OUP.
Cox, P.A.   (1987) The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids, OUP.
Hoffmann, R.   (1988) Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist’s View of Extended Bonding, VCH.
Grant, P.   (1987) Do-it-yourself superconductors, New Scientist,  115 , 36–39.
Hazen, R.M.   (1990) Perovskites, Scientific American, June, 52–61.
Pizzini, Sergio, (2023) Chemistry of semiconductors, Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN pdf 978-1-83767-136-6
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/superconductivity-the-search-and-the-scandal/4019292.article

https://www.quantamagazine.org/high-temperature-superconductivity-understood-at-last-20220921/

From a more physics perspective:

Kittel, C.   (2004) Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th edition, John Wiley.
Pizzini, Sergio, (2023) Chemistry of semiconductors, Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN pdf 978-1-83767-136-6
Reinhard J. Maurer, Christoph Freysoldt, Anthony M. Reilly, Jan Gerit Brandenburg,
Oliver T. Hofmann, Torbjorn Bjorkman, Sebastien Lebegue, and Alexandre Tkatchenko (2019) Advances in Density-Functional Calculations for Materials Modelling, Annual Review of Materials Research, 49,1 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-matsci-070218-010143

Sutton, A.P.   (1995) Electronic Structure of Materials, OUP.
Just one of the many codes for calculating the electronic structure of solids is CRYSTAL17. See the website (www.crystal.unito.it/index.php); there are a helpful set of tutorials. Other popular codes include VASP (www.vasp.at) and CASTEP (www.castep.org).

Chapter 6

Kumar, P. and Viswanath, B.  . (2016). Effect of Sulfur Evaporation Rate on Screw Dislocation Driven Growth of MoS2 with High Atomic Step Density. Crystal Growth & Design, 2016, 7145–7154.
Tilley, R.J.D.   (2008) Defects in Solids, Wiley-Blackwell.
Solid States 07 | Defects | Pure English | 12th JEE/NEET/CUET  online video

Chapter 7

Breeze, Paul (2018) Fuel Cells Academic press ISBN 978-0-08-101039-6
Jianmin Ma, (ed)  (2022) Battery technology:Materials and components, Wiley-VCH GmbH Print ISBN:9783527348589 |Online ISBN:9783527830053 |
Poinern, Gerrard E. J. et al  (2023) Battery Energy 2 20230030 https://doi.org/10.1002/bte2.20230030
Rajagopalan, R.  and Zhang, L.   (2019) Advanced Materials for Sodium-Ion Storage, CRC Press.
Sikstrom, D., Thangadurai, V. A tutorial review on solid oxide fuel cells: fundamentals, materials, and applications. Ionics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-024-05824-7
Turner, James Morton (2022) Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) University of Washington press ISBN 978-0295750248
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cell-basics
Path to making batteries green https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/72
Sodium as a green substitute for lithium in batteries https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/73

Chapter 8

Barrer, R.M.   (1982) Hydrothermal Chemistry of Zeolites, Academic Press, New York.
Breck, D.W.   (1974) Zeolite Molecular Sieves, John Wiley, New York.
Catlow, C.R.A. ,  Smit, B.  and  van Santen, R.A.   (Eds.) (2004) Computer Modelling of Microporous Materials, Academic Press, London.
Cejka, J. ,  Corma, A.  and  Zones, S.   (Eds.) (2010) Zeolites and Catalysis: Synthesis, Reactions and Applications, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim.
Jihong Yu et al, (2024) The future of zeolites, Chemistry of Materials, 36, 7103. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01675
Kuznicki, S.M.  and UOP  (2012) Zeolite Molecular Sieves: Structure Chemistry and Use, 2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
Long, J. and Yaghi, O.   (Eds.) (2009) Metal organic frameworks, Chemical Society Reviews, 5 , 1201–1508.
Rothenburg, G.   (2017) Catalysis and Green Applications, 2nd edition, Wiley, Chichester.
Tompsett, G.A. ,  Conner, W.C.  and  Yngvesson, K.S.   (2006) Microwave synthesis of nanoporous materials, Chemical Physics Chemistry,  7 , 296–319.
Xu, R., Pang, W., Yu, J., Huo, Q.  and Chen, J.   (2007) Chemistry of Zeolites and Related Porous Materials: Synthesis and Structure, Wiley-Blackwell.
Zhu, G.  and Ren, H.   (2015) Porous Organic Frameworks, Springer Briefs in Molecular Science.
https://geologyscience.com/minerals/zeolite/

Chapter 9

Ball, P.   (2018) Blueprints for real world invisibility, Frontiers of Physics,  13 , 134102.
Duffy, J.A.   (1990) Bonding, Energy Levels and Bands in Inorganic Solids, Longman, London.
Heeger, A.J.   (2010) Semiconducting polymers: The third generation, Chemical Society Reviews,  39 , 2354–2371.
Higgins, S.J. ,  Eccleston, W. ,  Sedgi, N.  and  Raja, M.   (2003) Plastic electronics, Education in Chemistry, May, 70–73.
Padilla, W.J. ,  Basov, D.N.  and  Smith, D.R.   (2006) Negative refractive index materials, Materials Today, 9, 28–35.
Pawadwe, V.B.  and  Dhobie, S.J.   (2018) Phosphors for Energy Saving and Conversion Technology, CRC Press.
Pendry, J.   (2009) Taking the wraps off cloaking, Physics,  2 , 95.
Stafford, N.   (2010) LEDs to light up the world, Chemistry World,  7 , 42–45.
Yablonovitch, E.   (2001) Photonic crystals, Scientific American,  285 (6), 47–55.
Zhang, X.  and  Liu, Z.   (2008) Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit, Nature Materials,  7 , 435–441.
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-ai-optical-properties-discovery-energy.html

Chapter 10

Awschalom, D.W. ,  Flatté, M.E.  and  Samarth, N.   (2002) Spintronics, Scientific American (June), 68–73.
Coey, J.M.D.   (2009) Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York.
Guinier, A.  and  Julien, R.   (1989) The Solid State from Superconductors to Superalloys, Oxford University Press, New York.
Khomskii, D.   (2009) Classifying multiferroics: Mechanisms and effects, Physics,  2 , 20.
Scott, J.F.  and  Gardner, J.   (2018) Ferroelectrics, multiferroics and artifacts: Lozenge-shaped hysteresis and things that go bump in the night, Materials Today,  21 , 553–562.
Spaldin, N.   (2011) Magnetic Materials, Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York.
Tokura, Y.  and  Seki, S.   (2010) Multiferroics with spiral spin orders, Advanced Materials,  22 , 1554–1565.
Vijay, M.S.   (2017) Piezoelectric Materials and Devices: Applications in Engineering and Medical Science, CRC Press.
Vopson, M.M.   (2015) Fundamentals of multiferroic materials and their possible applications, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences,  40 (4), 223–250.

https://theconversation.com/how-do-superconductors-work-a-physicist-explains-what-it-means-to-have-resistance-free-electricity-2

Chapter 11

Altavilla, C.  and  Ciliberto, E.   (Eds.) (2010) Inorganic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Applications, and Perspectives, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Broadwith, P.   (2010) Bend me, shape me anyway you want me, Chemistry World,  7 , 23. (Structures made from carbon nanotubes.)
Cao, G.  and  Wang, Y.   (2011) Nanostructures and Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications, 2nd edition, World Scientific.
Ozin, G.A. ,  Arsenault, A.  and  Cademartiri, L.   (2009) Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67005670

https://physicsworld.com/a/twisted-carbon-nanotubes-store-more-energy-than-lithium-ion-batteries/

Chapter 12

Ashby, M. F. (2021) Materials and the Environment, 3rd Edition, Elsevier.

Cindro, N., Tireli, M., Karadeniz, B., Mrla, T. and Užarević, K. (2019) Investigations of Thermally Controlled Mechanochemical Milling Reactions, ACS Sustainable Chemical Engineering 7, 16301-16309.

Ercan, M., Malmodin, J., Bergmark, P. Kimfalk, E. and Nilsson, E. (2016) Life Cycle Assessment of a Smartphone, 4th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), 124-133.

Gaultois, M. W., Sparks, T. D., Borg, C. H. K., Seshadri, R., Bonificio, W. D. and Clarke, D. R. (2013) Data-Driven Review of Thermoelectric Materials: Performance and Resource Considerations, Chemistry of Materials 25, 2911-2920.

Gill, V. (2022) E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022. BBC website:  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

Goodall, R. E. A. and Lee, A. A. (2020) Predicting materials properties without crystal structure: deep representation learning from stoichiometry, Nature Communications 11, 6280.

Graedel, T. E. (2011) On the Future Availability of Energy Metals, Annual Review of Materials Research 41, 323-335.

McDonough, W. and Braungart, M. (2002) Cradle to Cradle. North Point Press.

MRS Bulletin, April 2012. Special Issue on Materials for Sustainable Development.

Maklavany, D. M., Rouzitalab, Z., Bazmi, M., Askarieh, M., Nabavi-Pelesaraei, A. (2023) Eco-Environmental Analysis of Different Routes for the Synthesis of MIL-53(Fe): An Integrated Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost Approaches, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 11, 9816-9832.

Rivero, R. and Garfias, M. (2006) Standard chemical exergy of elements updated, Energy 31, 3310-3326.

Sun, J. P., Calahoo, C., Brown, C. and White, M. A. (2021) Environmental impact assessment of milk packaging in Canada, Journal of Cleaner Production 325, 129347:1-10.

Wang, A. Y.-T., Murdock, R. J.; Kauwe, S. K.; Oliynyk, A. O., Gurlo, A., Brgoch, J., Persson, K. A. and Sparks, T. D. (2020) Machine Learning for Materials Scientists: An Introductory Guide Towards Best Practices, Chemistry of Materials 32, 4954-4965.

White, M.A.   (2019) Physical Properties of Materials, 3rd edition, CRC Press, Boca