Lectures presented at the 5th Conference on Solid State Chemistry
(SSC 2002), Bratislava, Slovakia, 7-12 July 2002.
Preface
The International Conference on Solid State Chemistry, held in Bratislava,
Slovakia 7-12 July 2002, was already the fifth conference since 1986.
The original idea of the first organizers was to bring together solid-state
chemists from western and eastern Europe in order to promote the cooperation
of both, at that time, divided groups. The first Solid State Chemistry
Conference, held in Karlove Vary, Czech Republic was a nucleus, which
has grown over the years and resulted in well-established meetings organized
biannually, either in the Czech or Slovak Republic.
Solid State Chemistry 2002 (SSC 2002)was organized in six sections,
which are as follows:
- advanced synthesis and characterization techniques of materials
- structure and electron structure of solids
- chemistry of glasses
- novel inorganic materials
- layered compounds, clathrates, and intercalates
- deposited films and surface chemistry
These sections covered almost all modern branches of solid-state chemistry,
which attract the interest of scientists and almost in the same extent
the producers of new materials and technologies. The present conference
was endorsed by IUPAC; Prof. Leonard Interrante, the representative
of IUPAC, presented the IUPAC activity and delivered the plenary lecture
on “Si-based ceramics from polymer precursors”. Also, other
plenary lectures covering each topic of the conference were an excellent
base for the discussions and certainly served as hints for further development
in the field. The majority of plenary lectures are published in this
issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
One hundred sixty-eight participants from 26 countries and 4 continents
listened to 11 plenary, 12 keynote, and 83 lectures. During the conference,
117 posters were presented. The International Referee Board has accepted
a total 103 papers, and these will be published in the series Solid
State Phenomena in the near future. [Solid
State Phenomena,
Volumes 90-91, entitled "Solid State Chemistry V", 2003,
ISBN 3-908450-77-2]
Pavol Šajgalík
Conference Chairman
* Lectures presented at the 5th Conference on Solid
State Chemistry (SSC 2002), Bratislava, Slovakia, 7-12 July 2002, are
published in this issue, pp. 2083-2168.
