Intercalation Compounds

Abstract

In different ways, the authors of every chapter in the present volume give convincing reasons to show how much scope there is for more research in their fields. Many rather novel experimental investigations now look rewarding. Many new theoretical advances are most certainly needed to do justice to numerous interesting prospects being opened up. A zestful pursuit of these opportunities can be found in many centres, and there is the added stimulus of alluring applications to be made. For Chemical Engineers, these include possibilities of novel catalysts, as well as novel storage materials for chemical reagents, and for electrochemical energy. For Electrical Engineers there are enticing vistas of superconductors with critical parameters much more favourable for application than any so far achieved in practice. Perhaps less well understood at present, but probably with at least comparable promise of applications in the somewhat longer term, there is the general possibility of producing synthetic metals with exceptionally low scatter of charge carriers in two-dimensions.