Materials with layered structures remain an extensively investigated subject in current physics and chemistry. Most of the promising technological applications however deal with intercalation compounds of layered materials. Graphite intercalation compounds have now been known for a long time. Intercalation in transition metal dichalcogenides, on the other hand, has been investigated only recently. The amount of information on intercalated layered materials has increased far beyond the original concept for this volume in the series Physics and Chemistry of Materials with Layered Structures. The large size of this volume also indicates how important this field of research will be, not only in basic science, but also in industrial and energy applications. In this volume, two classes of materials are included, generally investigated by different scientists. Graphite intercalates and intercalates of other inorganic com pounds actually constitute separate classes of materials. However, the similarity between the intercalation techniques and some intercalation processes does not justify this separation, and accounts for the inclusion of both classes in this volume. The first part of the volume deals with intercalation processes and intercalates of transition metal dichalcogenides. Several chapters include connected topics necessary to give a good introduction or comprehensive review of these types of materials. Organic as well as inorganic intercalation compounds are treated. The second part includes contributions concerning graphite intercalates. It should be noted that graphite intercalation compounds have already been mentioned in Volumes I and V. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Front Matter....Pages ix-ix Intercalation Compounds....Pages 1-31 On the Intercalation Reaction....Pages 33-98 Intercalation in Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides....Pages 99-199 Alkali Metal Intercalation Compounds of Transition Metal Chalcogenides: TX 2 , TX 3 and TX 4 Chalcogenides....Pages 201-250 The First Row Transition Metal Intercalation Complexes of Some Metallic Group VA Transition Metal Dichalcogenides....Pages 251-305 Intercalation Compounds of Molybdenum Disulfide....Pages 307-319 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Crystallo-Chemistry of Carbon Intercalation Compounds....Pages 323-421 Lattice Mode Structure of Graphite Intercalation Compounds....Pages 423-480 Electronic Properties of Graphite Intercalation Compounds....Pages 481-532 Applications of Intercalation Compounds....Pages 533-562 Back Matter....Pages 563-578
