The progress that has been made recently and the consequent increased interest in Low-Dimensional Solids has been impressive. This volume contains the latest advances concerning the chemistry and physics of, particularly, one dimensional solids, which were treated at the 1979 Advanced Study Institute, held in Tomar, Por tugal. The subject is treated starting from basic concepts on the physics of one dimension up to the design of new materials and includes technological and scientific applications. The book therefore should be of interest to solid state physicists, syn thetic chemists and scientists concerned with materials science and technology. Contrary to some pessimistic views, the subject continues to be of interest and very much alive indeed, and new perspecti ves are open particularly in the domain of new materials and conducting polymers and their technological interest. The Advanced Study Institute was sponsored by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, and in Portugal, by the "Laborato rio Nacional de Engenharia e Tecnologia Industrial", the Gulben kian Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. LNETI, Sacavem Luis Alcacer April, 1980 ix L. Alcacer (ed.), The Physics and Chemistry of Low Dimensional Solids, ix.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Tomar, Portugal, August 26-September 7, 1979

Inhalt
Physics in One Dimension.- Basic Physical Concepts of Low Dimensional Solids.- Transport in Quasi-One-Dimensional Solids.- Theory of the Electrical Conductivity of Organic Metals.- Neutron Scattering Study of TTF-TCNQ under Hydrostatic Pressure up to 5 Kbar.- Preliminary X-ray Diffuse Scattering Study of TMTSF-DMTCNQ.- Fluctuating Collective Conductivity and Single-Particle Conductivity in 1-D Organic Conductors.- Spin Hamiltonians and Theoretical Models.- Molecular Vibration Studies of Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Charge-Transfer Compounds.- EPR of Organic Conductors.- ESR in Alkali TCNQ-Salts.- Phonon Scattering in Quasi 1-d Conductors: TTF-TCNQ.- Electronic Properties and New Forms of Instabilities in TCNG-Salts with Intermediate Conductivity.- Cohesive Energy and Ionicity.- Molecular Properties of the Molecules Used in Conducting Organic Solids.- Chemistry of Organic Conductors: A Review of Strategies.- The Radical Cation Salts: A View of Organic Metals.- Transition Metal Trichalcogenides.- Survey of Metal Chain Compounds.- Structural Chemistry of Linear Chain Transition Metal Complexes.- Design and Synthesis of Highly Conducting One-Dimensional Materials.- Two Band Conductors with Variable Band Filling: Probing the Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Materials.- Conducting Organic Polymers: Doped Polyacetylene.- Organic Metals and Semiconductors: The Chemistry of Polyacetylene, (CH)x, and its Derivatives.- Applications of Charge Transfer Complexes and Related Compounds.- Organic Conductors as Electron Beam Resist Materials.- Electrical Switching and Memory Phenomena in Semiconducting Organic Charge-Transfer Complexes.