Bøger i Topics in Physical Chemistry serien

This book discusses applications of fractal geometry to complex problems in molecular biophysics. It provides a treatment of fractal aspects of protein and structure dynamics, fractal reaction kinetics in biochemical systems, sequence correlations in DNA, and descriptors of chaos in enzymes.

This symposium volume will cover the latest research findings in high-temperature materials from a range of experimental and computational materials scientists.

This is a guide for the growing number of researchers in organic chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology who would like to augment their experiments with theoretical calculations. The book teaches the use of quantum chemical computer programs while side-stepping the complex mathematics.

This work covers important new developments since 1990 in the area of cluster chemistry. The cluster reactions reviewed in this work include electron and proton transfer reactions, hot atom reactions, vibrational predissociation, radical reactions and ionic reactions.

Explains the literature in which the characteristics of hydrogen bonds have been probed by quantum chemical methods. After an explanation as to how various properties are calculated, this book describes the results that have been obtained in various systems, focusing on the energetics, equilibrium geometries, and vibrational spectras.

This monograph presents a fresh appraisal of the mathematics of the wave functions that provide the theoretical underpinnings for molecular spectroscopy.

Assuming no more than an undergraduate knowledge of chemistry, the authors take the reader through the necessary mathematical and theoretical background of oscillating reactions, chaos and chemical waves to advanced topics of current research interest in chemical systems, including applications biology and polymers. Demonstrations and laboratory experiments are also presented.

Because of the widespread field of different research activities in liquid crystals and applications, various competent authors have been involved in writing chapters on: - Phase types, structures, and chemistry of liquid crystals;

The remaining years of our ending millennium are characterized by a tempestuous devel­ opment of Surface Science, whose ultimate consequences are presently hard to foresee. While some of these consequenees are apparent to everybody (e. g. modern information eleetronies would hardly be possible without the progress in device fabrication whieh, in turn, has required profound knowledge of surface teehnology ) there are several other dis­ ciplines where the impact of surface physical chemistry may not be so obvious, but, nevertheless, has contributed much to the technological progress made in the past, and is expected to cause even more such benefit in the future. We only list here the c1assical syn­ thetic inorganic chemistry or the technical chemistry which have both greatly benefited from a more fundamental understanding of heterogeneously catalyzed (surface) pro­ cesses leading to, among others, improved industrial fabrication processes. (We selec­ tively mention the promising attempts to model the Fischer-Tropseh reaction or the ammonia synthesis reaction, remembering also the optimization of the hydrocarbon reforming proeess by developing appropriate bi metallic catalyst materials). Furthermore, materials science with its considerations of eorrosion, embrittlement, and fracture, as weIl as energy technology with its considerations of photovoltaics, hydrogen storage, or fuel cell development, must also be mentioned here. Many other important aspeets remain unmentioned, because of space limitations.

Application of compressed gases as solvents has found widespread interest within the scientific community. Gas Extraction deals with the possibilities of supercritical gases as solvents for separation processes.

) Why, then, are ions considered so important that hundreds oflaboratories all over the world (including some of the most prestigious) are involved in research pro grams on ions, covering many different facets, from biochemistry to physics?