Physical chemistry

The author illustrates why the rather weak hydrogen bond is so essential for our everyday life in a lively and entertaining way.

Multiphase Polylactide Blends: Toward a Sustainable and Green Environment guides the reader through fundamentals, science, preparation, and key areas of innovation in polylactide (PLA) blends.

This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality.

Prefaces are usually written when a manuscript is finished.

This book is about graph energy.

In recent years, there has been rapid growth in the research field of real-time observation of nuclear and electronic dynamics in molecules.

This book is an account of current developments in computational chemistry, a new multidisciplinary area of research.

Scotland's diverse landscapes, extensive coastline and mix of cultural and historic influences are reflected in its rich food and drink heritage.

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.

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.

Covering the gap between basic textbooks and over-specialized scientific publications, this is the first reference available to describe this interdisciplinary topic for PhD students and scientists starting in the field.

Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life.

This textbook fills the gap between the very basic and the highly advanced volumes that are widely available on the subject.

Over a period of fifty years, the quantum-classical or semi-classical theories have been among the most popular for calculations of rates and cross sections for many dynamical processes: energy transfer, chemical reactions, photodissociation, surface dynamics, reactions in clusters and solutions, etc.

The volumes in this continuing series provide a compilation of current techniques and ideas in inorganic synthetic chemistry.

Progress in today's high-technology industries is strongly associated with the development of new mathematical tools.

The field of N-heterocyclic carbenes, whether in transition-metal catalysis or organocatalysis, is rapidly evolving towards applications, but is also still very active on the catalyst development front.

This handbook focuses on electrocatalytic materials, a field that has experienced significant advancements in recent decades, primarily driven by nanoscale catalyst design improvements.

Solid State Physics, Volume 49 continues the Series' tradition of excellence by focusing on the optical and electronic properties and applications of semiconductors.

The present monograph is a continuation of Cyvin SJ, Brunvoll J and Cyvin (1991c), a reference to be found in Bibliography.

Materials with superhydrophobic or related properties are one of the most studied subjects from a theoretical point of view and also for the large range of possible applications, for example, anticorrosion, antibacteria, optical devices, and sensors.

Computational studies on fuel cell-related issues are increasingly common.

This book has been written for those whose interests bridge food processing and physicochemical aspects of radiation.

Chemical bonds, their intrinsic energies in ground-state molecules and the energies required for their actual cleavage are the subject of this book.

This handbook presents recent advances and offers a comprehensive reference resource covering the developments in and applications of macrocyclic supramolecular assembly, with a focus on their construction, structural characters and biological functions.

Get up to speed with the future of logic switch design with this indispensable introduction to post-CMOS technologies.

The ongoing energy transition will require a number of emerging technological concepts (e.

Wetting Experiments contains experimental wetting studies related to biological problems, polymers, and catalysts.

This book is a sequel to my Chemical Thermodynamics: A Prob- lems Approach published in 1967, which concerned classical thermodynamics almost exclusively.

Almost 100 years have passed since Trautz and Lewis put forward their collision theory of molecular processes.

Born and initially developed in various industrial laboratories, mainly in U.

This volume emphasizes the involvement of all facets of biology in the analysis of environmentally controlled movement responses.

The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

This is the eighth volume of a continuing series intended to provide a forum for publication of develop- ments in Mossbauer effect methodology and in spectroscopy and its applications.

Designing molecules and materials with desired properties is an important prerequisite for advancing technology in our modern societies.

Ten years after the debut of the expansive CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions, The CRC Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions updates and expands the world's first comprehensive source of this vital data.

Molecular simulation allows researchers unique insight into the structures and interactions at play in fluids.

This book covers the different aspects of microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) technology and its applications in wastewater treatment such as nutrient recovery and heavy metals removal.

When the first edition of this book was published in 1950, it predated the publication of the double-helical structure of DNA by three years.

This book provides a contemporary treatment of the problems related to anomalous diffusion and anomalous relaxation.

In solid state physics and in materials science the investigation of the connection between the properties of solids and their microstructure is of major importance.

p-Conjugated molecules with an even number of p-electrons usually have a closed-shell ground state.

The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

This book presents an overview of fundamental aspects of surface-based biosensors and techniques for enhancing their detection sensitivity and speed.

This book consists of chapters written by international experts on various aspects of single molecule toroics (SMTs).

This introduction to thermodynamics discusses typical phase diagrams features and presents the wide range of techniques such as Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Thermogravimetry and others.