This book presents a systematic description of the electronic and physico-chemical properties of transition metal carbides and nitrides. The discussion is devoted to the theoretical modeling of refractory carbides and nitrides and alloys based on them, and the authors uniquely make use of computational methods to calculate their spectroscopic, electric, magnetic, superconducting, thermodynamical, and mechanical properties. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.