Includes index

Some history -- Materials -- Background you need to know -- Bonds and energy bands -- Models, crystals and chemistry -- Binary compounds -- Complex crystal and glass structures -- Equilibrium phase diagrams --Tools -- Furnaces -- Characterizing structure, defects and chemistry -- Defects -- Point defects, charge and diffusion -- are dislocations unimportant? -- Surfaces, nanoparticles and foams interfaces in polycrystals -- Phase boundaries, particles and pores -- Mechanical strength and weakness