edited by Junichi Kawamura (Tohoku University, Japan), Shinzo Yoshikado (Doshisha University, Japan), Takashi Sakuma (Ibaraki University, Japan), Yoshitaka Michihiro (Tokushima University, Japan), Masaru Aniya (Kumamoto University, Japan), & Yoshiaki Ito (Kyoto University, Japan)

Table of Contents (134k)
Preface (146k)
Chapter 1: Chemical Bonding of Moving Cations in Superionic Conductors (560k)

The book presents basic studies on ion transport properties of ionic conductive solid. It describes research on theory, modeling, simulation, crystalline structure, nuclear magnetic resonance, electric conduction, optical properties, and thermal measurement in this field. Superionic conductors are highly promising functional materials. As a stepping stone in the development of new superionic conductors that can be utilized as functinal materials efforts to reevaluate solid-interior diffusion and conduction phenomena of ions and molecules in a superionic conductor on the basis of basic physical properties, and to clarify mechanism governing these phenomena from a microscopic standpoint are important.

How are diffusing ions associated with material structures within a superionic conductor? What types of interaction are diffusing ions undergoing with the host ions surrounding them? How important is the correlation among diffusing ions in their motion? The carefully presented detail of this book will be of value to research devoted to the understanding and control of functional materials such as superionic conductors.

• Chemical Bonding of Moving Cations in Superionic Conductors (Y Kowada et al.)
• LDA Study on Polarizabilities of Ions in Copper Halide Crystals with the Zinc-Blende Structure (Y Michihiro et al.)
• Reliability and Limitations of Dielectric Continuum Model for Ionic Mobility in Subcritical Liquid Methanol and Water (K Ibuki et al.)
• Pressure Dependence of the Effective Charge in Copper Halides (M Aniya & F Shimojo)
• Ab Initio Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Superionic Phases of Cu Halides and Ag Chalcogenides (F Shimojo et al.)
• Ion Conduction Path and Low-Temperature Form: Argyrodite-Type Superionic Conductors (M Onoda et al.)
• Excitons in AgI-Based-Glasses and Composites (F Fujishiro & S Mochizuki)
• Direct Diffusion Studies of Solids Using Radioactive Nuclear Beams (S-C Jeong et al.)
• X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Li Ion Battery and Electronic Materials (J Metson et al.)
• Diffuse X-Ray Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Studies of K-Hollandite at High Temperatures (Y Michiue et al.)
• and other papers