The 3rd International Conference on Solid State Chemistry. Preface

The 3rd International Conference on Solid State Chemistry took place on 6-12 July 1996 in Bratislava, Slovakia, under the auspices of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In the conference participated 158 scientists from many countries of the world. The conference covered all aspects of modern solid state chemistry and the presentation of papers was divided into eight sections consisting of invited lectures and oral as well as poster presentations. The individual sections were devoted to the high-temperature ceramic superconductors, the layered compounds, clathrates and intercalates, the oxide and non-oxide glasses, the structure and properties of solids, the electron structure and chemical bonding in solids, the surface chemistry of solids, the solid state superionic, and to the local structure and bonding cementitious binding materials. (authors)