Physical chemistry

The developments of nanofabrication in the past years have enabled the design of electronic systems that exhibit spectacular signatures of quantum coherence.

Modern Methods for Theoretical Physical Chemistry of Biopolymers provides an interesting selection of contributions from an international team of researchers in theoretical chemistry.

Conventionally, evolution has always been described in terms of species.

Many new developments, related to the interpretation and importance of symmetry relationships, quantum mechanics, general relativity, field theory and mathematics have occurred in the second half of the 20th century without having a visible impact on chemical thinking.

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current developments in this rapidly developing field that falls between the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.

Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry provides the chemical community with authoritative and critical assessments of the many aspects of physical organic chemistry.

This book describes the structure-property-composition relationships for silicate glasses and melts of industrial and geological interest.

This volume is part of the series on "e;Chemical Thermodynamics"e;, published under the aegis of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency.

This book is devoted to nanochemistry: a branch of the actively developing interdisciplinary field of nanoscience.

Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies provides a non-traditional bridging of historical, philosophical, societal and scientific aspects of heat with a comprehensive approach to the field of generalized thermodynamics.

Chemistry at Extreme Conditions covers those chemical processes that occur in the pressure regime of 0.

Surface activity is present in living systems; for example in body fluid or cell soup and molecules of surface-active nature are crucial to living matter and its organization.

The Science and Technology of Rubber, Third Edition provides a broad survey of elastomers with special emphasis on materials with a rubber-like elasticity.

Recent years have seen an expansion in speciality uses of activated carbons including medicine, filtration, and the purification of liquids and gaseous media.

Activated Carbon Surfaces in Environmental Remediation provides a comprehensive summary of the environmental applications of activated carbons.

Advances in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Methods Reported in US Patents provides synthetic guidelines for preparing current and commercially significant organic compounds, derivatives, and intermediates as reported in issued US Patents.

Batteries for Portable Devices provides a comprehensive overview of all batteries used in portable electric and electronic, as well as medical devices.

Chemistry and chemical technology have been at the heart of the revolutionary developments of the 20th century.

Modern Computational Quantum Chemistry is indispensable for research in the chemical sciences.

Computational Photochemistry, Volume 16 provides an overview of general strategies currently used to investigate photochemical processes.

This volume is another in the series of IUPAC sponsored monographs that summarize the state of knowledge with respect to experimental techniques in thermochemistry and thermodynamics.

Many highly acclaimed and authoritative books on polymer science tend to focus on synthetic polymers.

Volume IV (2005) covers preparation, characterization of colloids, stability and interaction between pairs of particles, and in concentrated systems, their rheology and dynamics.