Contents: PartI:Background to Materials Chemistry 1 ch01:What is Materials Chemistry? 3 ch02: Fundamentals Principles that Underlie Materials Chemistry 15 ch03: Background Basic Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry 41 ch04:Chemistry of Representative Elements Utilized in Materials Science 61 ch05:Structure Determination and SpecialTechniques for Materials Characterization 85 PartIl: ch06:Small Molecules in Materials 111 ch07:Porous Solids 125 ch08:Ceramics Inorganic Glasses 143 ch09: Polymers : Fundamentals Aspects 181 ch 10 : Polymer Morphology and Fabrication 217