1.2 A Brief Review of Bonding in Materials

Bonding in materials is a very important criterion and determines many of the physical properties of the materials. For basics of bonding, you can refer to any elementary materials science book (see bibliography) to get familiar with the fundamental aspects of bonding between atoms i.e. how to determine the equilibrium distance, bond energy and fundamental properties like young’s modulus.
Bonding in materials can be divided in two categories:

• Primary bonding
• Secondary bonding