Physical chemistry

This Brief describes the calibration of titration calorimeters (ITCs) and calculation of stoichiometry, equilibrium constants, enthalpy changes, and rate constants for reactions in solution.

This book discusses the basic principles and processes of solar energy conversion in natural photosynthesis.

This book is devoted to various aspects of self-assembly of gold nanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces and investigation of their properties.

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This book offers a clearly written and highly accessible account of two different aspects of carbohydrate chemistry.

This book introduces the ideas and concepts of nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy, outlines its history, and provides insight into the present state of the art of the experimental technology and understanding of nonlinear dielectric effects.

This book investigates the use of palladium modified by bulky ligands as catalysts for new chemical transformations that rapidly assemble several classes of complex heterocyles.

This book studies the dynamics of fundamental collective excitations in quantum materials, focusing on the use of state-of-the-art ultrafast broadband optical spectroscopy.

Macroscopic cellular structures and functions are generally investigated using biological and biochemical approaches.

In addition to structure formation in crystallizing polymers and semicrystalline polymers, this second edition completes the topic of transport phenomena.

This thesis offers a unique guide to the development and application of ultrasensitive optical microscopy based on light scattering.

This book covers the various advanced manufacturing processes employed by manufacturing industries to improve their productivity in terms of socio-economic development.

This book discusses the history of nuclear decommissioning as a science and industry.

The authors of this volume concentrate on the recent progress of novel polyoxometalate (POM) syntheses, as well as advances made in catalytic, electrochemical, and sensing systems.

This new edition provides a state-of-the-art survey of ellipsometric methods used to study organic films and surfaces, from laboratory to synchrotron applications, with a special focus on in-situ use in processing environments and at solid-liquid interfaces.

The story of superheavy elements  - those at the very end of the periodic table  - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists.

On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising strategy to create organic nanoarchitectures with atomic precision.

This book presents a design-driven investigation into smart materials developed by chemists, physicists, materials and chemical engineers, and applied by designers to consumer products, buildings, interfaces, or textiles.

This book presents the most important advances in the class of topological materials and discusses the topological characterization, modeling and metrology of materials.

This book covers basic and advanced aspects in the field of Topological Matter.

This book systematizes data on the heterophase states and their evolution in perovskite-type ferroelectric solid solutions.

This book presents physical units and widely used physical formulas, which are given together with conversion factors in various units.

This edited, multi-author volume contains selected, peer-reviewed contributions based on the presentations given at the 21th International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology (QSCP-XXI), held in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2016.

This textbook extends from the basics of femtosecond physics all the way to some of the latest developments in the field.

This thesis discusses the use of asymmetric organic catalysis for the direct enantioselective synthesis of complex chiral molecules, and by addressing the many aspects of both vinylogy and atropisomerism, it appeals to researchers and scholars interested in both areas.

This edited volume focuses on the host-guest chemistry of organic molecules and inorganic systems during synthesis (structure-direction).

This textbook covers the fundamentals of physical chemistry, explaining the concepts in an accessible way and guiding the readers in a step-by-step manner.

This SpringerBrief provides an overview of ultrasonic emulsification and an update on recent advances in developing stable emulsions for the creation of novel drugs and functional foods, with a focus on bioactive delivery in these products.

This thesis advances the long-standing challenge of measuring oxidative stress and deciphering its underlying mechanisms, and also outlines the advantages and limitations of existing design strategies.

This book is the first to be entirely devoted to the challenging art of handling membrane proteins out of their natural environment, a key process in biological and pharmaceutical research, but one plagued with difficulties and pitfalls.

The dielectric properties especially of glassy materials are nowadays explored at widely varying temperatures and pressures without any gap in the spectral range from uHz up to the Infrared, thus covering typically 20 decades or more.

This book discusses the needs of future energy systems with a focus on the electricity and transportation sectors.

This brief provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and materials technologies utilizing oriented-attachment nanocrystals (OA NCs) for the energy conversion devices.

This book presents a collection of invited research and review contributions on recent advances in (mainly) theoretical condensed matter physics, theoretical chemistry, and theoretical physics.

This introduction to quantum mechanics is intended for undergraduate students of physics, chemistry, and engineering with some previous exposure to quantum ideas.

Thermochemical gas-solid reactions, as well as adsorption processes, are currently of significant interest for the design of heat storage systems.

This book is addressed to Master and PhD students as well as researchers from academia and industry.

This book provides a review of the latest advances in anion exchange membrane fuel cells.

This book focuses on different aspects of microplastic pollution, offering authors and readers the opportunity to share their knowledge, identify issues and propose solutions and actions to face this environmental threat.

The series Topics in Organometallic Chemistry presents critical overviews of research results in organometallic chemistry.

This book presents a detailed history of chemical warfare development during the First World War and discusses design approaches to gas masks and the performance of new filter materials that decontaminate chemical warfare agents (CWA) when applied in the vapor phase.

This book addresses recycling technologies for many of the valuable and scarce materials from spent lithium-ion batteries.

This book surveys state-of-the-art research on and developments in lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

This book presents a range of nanocatalysts, together with their primary environmental applications and use in chemical production processes.

This book focuses on the latest developments in detonation engines for aerospace propulsion, with a focus on the rotating detonation engine (RDE).

This book explains the use of nanocrystalline semiconductors in the harvesting of energy from solar light.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in supercomputer simulation.

This book introduces readers to the basic principles of bioinformatics and the practical application and utilization of computational tools, without assuming any prior background in programming or informatics.

This book provides state-of-the-art computational approaches for accelerating materials discovery, synthesis, and processing using thermodynamics and kinetics.

This brief explains in detail fundamental concepts in acoustic cavitation and bubble dynamics, and describes derivations of the fundamental equations of bubble dynamics in order to support those readers just beginning research in this field.