Materials Handbook, 2 Vols.

- Properties of Materials

- Ferrous Metals and Their Alloys

- Common Nonferrous Metals

- Less Common Nonferrous Metals

- Semiconductors

- Superconductors

- Magnetic Materials

- Insulators and Dielectrics

- Miscellaneous Electrical Materials

- Ceramics, Refractories and Glasses

- Polymers and Elastomers

- Minerals, Ores and Gemstones

- Rocks and Meteorites

- Soils

- Cements, Concrete, Building Stones and Construction Materials

- Timbers and Woods

- Fuels, Propellants and Explosives

- Composite Materials

- Gases

- Liquids

- Appendices: Background Data for the Chemical Elements; NIST Thermochemical Data for Pure Substances; Natural Radioactivity and Radionuclides; Crystallography and Crystallochemistry; Transparent Materials for Optical Windows; Corrosion Resistance of Materials towards Various Corrosive Media; Economic Data for Metals, Industrial Minerals and Electricity; Geological Time Scale; Materials Societies

François Cardarelli has had wide-ranging commercial and industrial experience of materials, commodities and processes:

• at CNRS in Paris he designed and used electrochemical sensors for pollution control;

• as a research scientist at Électricité de France he helped to invent methods of preparation of industrial titanium and tantalum electrodes;

• as a registered professional consultant in Toulouse, he solved problems in electrochemical engineering, the selection of electrode materials, corrosion and high-temperature operation;

• at the Avestor Corporation, he worked as an industrial electrochemist and materials expert in charge of strategic raw materials, scientific and technical support for lithium processing and, as Battery Product Leader, in charge of lithium polymer batteries for electric vehicles, down-hole drilling anf telecommunications he defined battery requirements and specifications and invented pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processing for spent lithium batteries;

• at Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium, he was principal chemist for Materials at Sorel-Tracy in Quebéc dealing with valorization processes for industrial residues and refactory benchmarking and electrowinning of metallic titanium.

• at the Material and Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp., Tucson (Arizona, USA) he was principal electrochemist working on the electrowinning of titanium metal powder from composite anodes and other materials-related projects.

• at present he is Manager of Recycling at 5NPlus Inc in Saint-Laurent Quebéc.

Doctor Cardarelli is also the author of Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures for Springer (ISBN: 1-85#-682-X).

From the reviews of the second edition:

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This handbook contains practical and concise information on key scientific and technical material properties for the most commonly used industrial materials ... . Compared with many other handbooks on material properties, this handbook presents more background information on how to use the data presented. ... Those looking for a materials reference handbook on commonly used industrial materials, especially those who need to have a better understanding of material property fundamentals, will find this an interesting and very useful handbook." (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, 2009)
"This desktop reference on materials will be useful for engineers, physicists, chemists, and materials scientists who are looking for typical numbers on the physical properties of materials. ... the index is very complete, it will be easy to find the property of interest. ... The book also contains nine useful appendices. ... The size of the volume and its 1300 pages make this handbook a real 'desk' reference. ... whoever does pay will have bought a nicely bound and durable handbook." (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Belgian Physical Society Magazine, Issue 1, 2010)