Cobalt Oxides

PREFACECRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF COBALT OXIDESIntroductionStoichiometric Perovskites LnCoO3Stoichiometric Ln1_x AxCoO3 Perovskites (A¼Ca, Sr,Ba)Oxygen-Deficient Perovskites: Order-Disorder Phenomena in the Distribution of Anionic VacanciesThe Ordered Double Stoichiometric Perovskite LaBaCo2O6Hexagonal Perovskite and DerivativesThe RP-Type Cobaltites: Intergrowths of Perovskite and Rock Salt Layers and DerivativesCobaltites with a Triangular LatticeSome Other Original CobaltitesELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF STOICHIOMETRIC PEROVSKITE COBALTITESStoichiometric LnCoO3 PerovskitesStoichiometric SrCoO3: Ferromagnetism and Metallic ConductivityStoichiometric Ln1_xAxCoO3 Perovskites (A ¼ Ca, Sr, and Ba)The « Ordered » Double Stoichiometric Perovskite LaBaCo2O6ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF OXYGEN-DEFICIENT PEROVSKITE COBALTITES SR1_XLNXCOO3_D AND SRCO1_XMXO3_DDisordered PerovskitesOrdered 112 LnBaCo2O5+d PerovskitesELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF RUDDLESDEN-POEPPER-TYPE COBALTITESCobalt Valence and Spin State TransitionsMagnetic Properties of RP PhasesElectrical Properties of RP PhasesPhase Separation in RP PhasesMagnetoresistance of RP PhasesThermoelectric Properties of RP PhasesELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF COBALTITES WITH A 3D "TRIANGULAR LATTICE"The Co3O4 Spinel and DerivativesThe "114" LnBaCo4O7 and CaBaCo4O7 CobaltitesELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF "TRIANGULAR" LAYERED COBALTITESThe Layer Sodium Cobaltites NaxCoO2Misfit CobaltitesELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE "UNIDIMENSIONAL" COBALTITE CA3CO2O6Valence and Spin State of CobaltMagnetic Properties of 1D-Ca3Co2O6 and Related DerivativesElectrical Resistivity of Ca3Co2O6 and DerivativesMagnetoresistance of Ca3Co2O6Thermoelectric Power of Ca3Co2O6 and Derivatives

Bernard Raveau is Emeritus Professor at the University of Caen, France. He received his formal education at this University, and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Caen as Engineer, and obtained his PhD degree in Physics in 1966. He was Director of CRISMAT, the Laboratory for Crystallography and Materials Science, in Caen, from 1986 to 2004, where he presently continues carrying out his research. He is the founder of the National Research Centre of Technology for Materials, CNRT Matériaux, in Caen, and has been Director of this Centre from 2000 to 2010. Bernard Raveau is a specialist of crystal chemistry and discovered many new transition metal oxides, including high Tc superconducting cuprates, CMR manganites, thermoelectric cobaltites and transition metal phosphates. Author of more than 1300 journal publications, and three books, he has received numerous awards including Berndt Mathias Prize and European Italgaz Prize. He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, of Académie des Sciences, of the Indian Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society.Dr. Md. Motin Seikh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. He has obtained his PhD from the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 2006. He carried out his postdoctoral research at Laboratoire CRISMAT in Caen, France for two years from 2006 to 2007. Dr. Seikh has published very original papers on various aspects of strongly correlated electron oxides, mainly manganites, ferrites and cobaltites. For his outstanding research contribution he received the Best Thesis Award for his PhD in materials chemistry from IISc in the year 2006. He was also a recipient of Junior and Senior Research Fellowship of the Government of India, and a visiting scientist under the programme of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in the year 2004. He has also authored 'Investigations on