Physical chemistry

Solid State Chemistry is a general textbook, composed for those with little background knowledge of the subject, but who wish to learn more about the various segments of solid state theory and technology.

The discovery of fullerenes (also known as buckyballs) has generated tremendous excitement and opened up a new field of carbon chemistry.

Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) is the material lying between fullerenes and graphite as a new member of carbon allotropes.

This is the fifteenth annual volume of Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry, which covers the literature published during 2002.

"e;Spillover and Mobility of Species and Solid Surfaces"e; collects the papers which were presented at the Fifth International Conference Spillover, either as oral or poster contributions, as well as the summaries of the invited lectures.

*; Traces the life of Maurice Nicoll, who left a successful career as a psychiatrist in 1922 to study with G.

Engineers encounter particles in a variety of systems.

This new edition of Robert G.

Photochromism is simply defined as the light induced reversible change of colour.

The impact of organosulfur chemistry, especially in the areas of heterocyclic chemistry, stereocontrolled processes, and asymmetric synthesis, has led to a resurgence of interest in the field.

This book is a follow-up to Ivins Olefin Metathesis, (Academic Press, 1983).

Comprehensive and impeccably edited, Neural Networks in QSAR and Drug Design is the first book to present an all-inclusive coverage of the topic.

Based on the successful first edition, this book gives a general theoretical introduction to electrochemical power cells (excluding fuel cells) followed by a comprehensive treatment of the principle battery types - covering chemistry, fabrication characteristics and applications.

* Expert, up-to-date guidance on the appropriate techniques of local chemical analysis* Comprehensive.

This book addresses primarily the chemist and engineer in industrial research and process development, where competitive pressures put a premium on scale-up by large factors to cut development time.

This book describes the physical and chemical effects of radiation interaction with matter.

This book summarizes the salient features of both equilibrium and steady-state thermodynamic theory under a uniform postulatory viewpoint.

This title is a revision of Experimental Thermodynamics Volume II, published in 1975, reflecting the significant technological developments and new methods introduced into the study of measurement of thermodynamic quantities.

This volume provides an overview of current research and recent advances in the area of energetic materials, focusing on explosives and propellants.

Following the Boltzmann-Gibbs approach to statistical mechanics, this new edition of Dr ter Haar's important textbook, Elements of Statistical Mechanics, provides undergraduates and more senior academics with a thorough introduction to the subject.

Computational tools have been permanently deposited into the toolbox of theoretical chemists.

During the past fifteen years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of different surfaces whose structures have been determined experimentally.

Coal is more abundant than petroleum and natural gas.

In spite of the energy crises and the recession, there has been a global, explosive growth in the amount of motor vehicles.

The inspiration for this book came from an American Carbon Society Workshop entitled "e;Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies"e; which was hosted by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1994.

As the first of its kind, this book provides a valuable introduction for scientists and engineers interested in liquid/fluid interfaces and disperse systems to the rapidly developing area of adsorption dynamics.

Volume 37 is concerned with the use and role of modelling in chemical kinetics and seeks to show the interplay of theory or simulation with experiment in a diversity of physico-chemical areas in which kinetics measurements provide significant physical insight.

The time has come for an assessment of the most important techniques for the fabrication of advanced catalysts.

The declared objective of this book is to provide an introductory review of the various theoretical and practical aspects of adsorption by powders and porous solids with particular reference to materials of technological importance.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful and theoretically complex analytical tool.

This Concise Encyclopedia draws its material from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, and includes updates and revisions not available in the original set.

Free radical reactions have become increasingly important and a very attractive tool in organic synthesis in the last two decades, due to their powerful, selective, specific, and mild reaction abilities.

The scientific basis of the technique of semiconductor chemical sensors is the main focus of this work.

Although the basic theories of thermodynamics are adequately covered by a number of existing texts, there is little literature that addresses more advanced topics.

Atmospheric and climatological studies are becoming more and more important in day-to-day living.

Today the study of materials is concerned with the underlying thermodynamic and chemical processes involved in the manufacture and processing of a wide range of materials - metals, ceramics, semi-conductors, plastics and composites.

Theories of Chemistry reviews the theories that underpin chemistry, but yet are not traditionally recognized as such, being normally considered as part of physics.

Structural Chemistry of Glasses provides detailed coverage of the subject for students and professionals involved in the physical chemistry aspects of glass research.

Electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, molecular spectroscopy, optics and radiation form the foundations of the field.

This book is written for graduate students just beginning research, for theorists curious about what experimentalists actually can and do measure, and for experimentalists bewildered by theory.

Arthur Conan Doyle had a longstanding interest in mystical subjects and remained fascinated by the paranormal.

If the text you're using for general chemistry seems to lack sufficient mathematics and physics in its presentation of classical mechanics, molecular structure, and statistics, this complementary science series title may be just what you're looking for.

Deposition and aggregation of small solid particles are encountered in many natural and industrial environments.

This book presents, for the first time, a unified treatment of the quantum mechanisms of magnetic resonance, including both nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR).

Computer simulation techniques are now having a major impact on almost all areas of the physical and biological sciences.

This book reflects the heights of knowledge of ultrafast chemical processes attained in these early years of the 21st century : the latest research in femtosecond and picosecond molecular processes in Chemistry and Biology, carried out around the world, is described here in more than 110 articles.

Successful characterization of polymer systems is one of the most important objectives of today's experimental research of polymers.

Interface and colloid science is an important, though often under-valued, branch of science.

This book is a beginners introduction to chemical thermodynamics for engineers.

This book is an excellent companion to Chemical Thermodynamics: Principles and Applications.