Analytical chemistry

Less than a decade ago, lead halide perovskite semiconductors caused a sensation: Solar cells exhibiting astonishingly high levels of efficiency.

This book is devoted to the synthetic and physical chemistry of aromatic thiols and their closest derivatives, sulfides, sulfoxides, sulfones, including those substituted by various functional groups such as acyl and thioacyl, alkoxide, ester, hydroxyl and halogens.

This book discusses new applications of technologies that have been or could be successfully employed to estimate the age of fingermarks.

This book addresses the basic understanding of food contaminants and their sources, followed by the techniques to measure food safety and quality.

This companion volume to "e;Fundamental Polymer Science"e; (Gedde and Hedenqvist, 2019) offers detailed insights from leading practitioners into experimental methods, simulation and modelling, mechanical and transport properties, processing, and sustainability issues.

This book reviews the latest developments and applications of nanozymes in environmental science.

This work studies the relaxation dynamics of molecules in both the gas and liquid phases after strong field ionization, using transient absorption in the soft X-rays.

This book outlines the evolution of food traceability matters in the current traditional foods market and particularly with regard to selected historical foods based in Jordan.

This thesis reports advances in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, relating to the development of new techniques and components that enhance the experimentalist's control over the terahertz polarisation state produced by photoconductive emitters.

This installment in the Techniques in Life Science and Biomedicine for the Non-Expert series aims to describe ESR spectroscopy as a tool for different applications, such as Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Science, Paleontology & Geochronology and Food Science.

This book presents photoelectron spectroscopy as a valuable method for studying the electronic structures of various solid materials in the bulk state, on surfaces, and at buried interfaces.

This thesis makes a significant contribution to the development of cheaper Si-based Infrared detectors, operating at room temperature.

Now in its updated second edition, this book describes emerging chiral environmental pollutants and their importance in environmental and human toxicology, as well as enantiomer selective separation and analytical methods.

This book provides detailed information on the electrochemistry of technetium compounds.

This book addresses the nature of the chemical bond in inorganic and coordination compounds.

This book discusses fundamentally new biomedical imaging methods, such as holography, holographic and resonant interferometry, and speckle optics.

This book presents a detailed look at experimental and computational techniques for accurate structure determination of free molecules.

Angelo Secchi was a key figure in 19th century science.

This book covers different omics aspects related to the extracellular matrix (ECM), namely specific omics resources focused on the extracellular matrix (e.

This book addresses the traditional use of a specific crop legume, grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), as a food product and ingredient for typical food products.

This book covers the role of water in global atmospheric phenomena, focussing on the physical processes involving water molecules and water microparticles.

This book, a consecutive contribution to the series Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics, focuses on understanding the photoinduced processes in biological systems.

This book presents new approaches that offer a better characterization of the interrelationship between crystalline and amorphous phases.

The thesis provides the necessary experimental and analytical tools to unambiguously observe the atomically resolved chemical reactions.

This volume covers topics on humanitarian engineering education of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology and recent advances in potable water and wastewater flotation processes.

This book reviews the authenticity of certain Street Food specialties from the viewpoint of food chemists.

This book describes how Bayesian methods work.

This thesis describes the application of the collinear resonance laser spectroscopy to sensitively measure the electromagnetic nuclear observables of the neutron-rich indium isotopes 115-131In.

Covering a wide-ranging facet of a "e;gold-standard"e; targeted mass spectrometry (MS) method for the consistent detection and accurate quantification of preselected proteins in complex biological matrices, Selected Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry (SRM-MS) in Proteomics: A Comprehensive View describes:The knowledge-based development of highly efficient SRM methodology including assay workflow, selection of proteins, peptides, transitions and its validation, and quality assessmentAvailable bioinformatic tools - for both pre-acquisition method development and post-MS acquisition data analysis and data repositoriesVarious relative and absolute quantification techniquesSRM-MS' widespread applications in biomarker development and in clinical studies, as well as in the analysis of various posttranslational modifications (PTMs)Current challenges and contemporary trends to overcome those difficulties In addition,it features the historical development of modern-day mass spectrometry with its vivid applications and also covers basic MS instrumentation, ionization techniques, and various proteomics approaches.

This book provides a broad account of various applied aspects of microbiology for quality and safety evaluations in food, water, soil, environment and pharmaceutical sciences.

This book is devoted to the most relevant issues in crystal chemistry and mineral typomorphism; the structure, physico-chemical and technological properties of minerals; and the computational modeling of mineral structure and properties.

This book is an invaluable guide to calibrating any infrared spectrum using noble gases as a reference.

This book reviews adsorption techniques to clean wastewater, with focus on pollution by dyes and heavy metals.

This book presents fundamental experimental data and experiment-based theoretical conclusions on, as well as physico-chemical models of, the natural hydrothermal, metasomatic, metamorphic, magmatic and ore-producing processes in the Earth's crust, upper mantle, transition zone and lower mantle.

This book addresses the contributions made by analytical chemistry to the characterisation of 18th and early 19th Century English and Welsh porcelains commencing with the earliest  reports of Sir Arthur Church and of Herbert Eccles and Bernard Rackham using chemical digestion techniques and concluding with the most recent instrumental experiments, which together span more than  a hundred years of study.

This book describes the physical basis of polarization modulation infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy and its application in electrochemical studies.

This book shows how the fundamentals of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy are practically implemented and illustrates the diversity of current applications.

Although originally invented and employed by physicists, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy has proven to be a very efficient technique for studying a wide range of phenomena in many fields, such as chemistry, biochemistry, geology, archaeology, medicine, biotechnology, and environmental sciences.

This book features the essential material for any graduate or advanced undergraduate course covering solid-state electrochemistry.

This book demonstrates the potential of novel in-situ experiments, performed on microscopic and macroscopic length scales, for investigating localized deformation processes in metallic materials, particularly their kinetics and the associated evolution of local strain fields.

Written by three leading experts in the field, this book describes and explains all essential aspects of scanning probe microscopy.

This book provides a lucid introduction to the basics of gemmology.

This book provides authoritative information, techniques and data necessary for the appropriate understanding of biomass and biowaste (understood as contaminated biomass) composition and behaviour while processed in various conditions and technologies.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of research to date in the field of stable iron isotope geochemistry.

This book focuses on the use of novel electron microscopy techniques to further our understanding of the physics behind electron-light interactions.

This thesis presents several related advances in the field of nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics.

This updated and revised edition of a classic work provides a summary of methods for numerical computation of high resolution conventional and scanning transmission electron microscope images.

The book covers in particular state-of-the-art scientific research about product quality control and related health and environmental safety topics, including human, animal and plant safety assurance issues.

This book is dedicated to label-free, non-invasive monitoring of cell-based assays and it comprises the most widely applied techniques.

This book presents innovative research on soil nitrogen cycling and nitrate leaching with a view to improving soil management and fertiliser nitrogen use efficiency and reducing nitrogen leaching losses.