1. Chemical Bonding in Solids The Periodic Table Covalent Bonding Ionic Bonding Metallic Bonding The Hydrogen Bond The van der Waals Bond
1.1. The Periodic Table Hartree model Mean field theory. Average e-e interaction. Self-consistency. Screening. Pauli-Exclusion principle / Exchange. Correlation effects.
Electron Configuration of Atoms
Periodic Table Transition metals ( partially filled d shell ) Rare earth metals (partially filled f shell ) Exchange-correlation effects Density functional method