Chemical physics

Introduction to Crystal Growth: Principles and Practice teaches readers about crystals and their origins.

Even though time-dependent spectroscopic techniques continue to push the frontier of chemical physics, they receive scant mention in introductory courses and are poorly covered in standard texts.

Water, with its simple molecular structure, reveals a complex nature upon interaction with other molecules and surfaces.

Since the turn of the 21st century, the field of electron molecule collisions has undergone a renaissance.

A full understanding of modern chemistry is impossible without quantum theory.

Perturbation theory forms an important basis for predicting the thermodynamic characteristics of real fluids and solids.

Metal clusters, an intermediate state between molecules and the extended solid, show peculiar bonding and reactivity patterns.

Inorganic chemistry continues to generate much current interest due to its array of applications, ranging from materials to biology and medicine.

Despite the fact that crystals make up an estimated 80% of chemical and pharmaceutical products, few resources exist that provide practical guidance on achieving precision control of their size and size distribution.

While modern computational methods can provide us with the wave function of a molecule in numerical form, most computer programs lack the sophisticated tools needed to extract chemical concepts from these wave functions.

Molecular modeling is becoming an increasingly important part of chemical research and education as computers become faster and programs become easier to use.

In the 1970s, Density Functional Theory (DFT) was borrowed from physics and adapted to chemistry by a handful of visionaries.

An In-Depth View of Hardware Issues, Programming Practices, and Implementation of Key MethodsExploring the challenges of parallel programming from the perspective of quantum chemists, Parallel Computing in Quantum Chemistry thoroughly covers topics relevant to designing and implementing parallel quantum chemistry programs.

Written by distinguished researchers in carbon, the long-running Chemistry and Physics of Carbon series provides a comprehensive and critical overview of carbon in terms of molecular structure, intermolecular relationships, bulk and surface properties, and their behavior in an amazing variety of current and emerging applications, rang

Featuring contributions from leading experts, Organic Photochemistry and Photophysics is a unique resource that addresses the organic photochemistry and photophysical behavior in aromatic molecules, thiocarbonyls, selected porphyrins, and metalloporphyrins.

In these days of ever-increasing specialization, it is important to gain a broad appreciation of scientific disciplines such as chemistry.

Remarkable developments in the spectroscopy field regarding ultrashort pulse generation have led to the possibility of producing light pulses ranging from 50 to5 fs and frequency tunable from the near infrared to the ultraviolet range.

Underscoring the multidisciplinary nature of polymer science, this third edition provides a broad-based and comprehensive text at an introductory, reader-friendly level.

Providing a comprehensive introduction with the necessary background material to make it accessible for a wide scientific audience, Kinetics of Phase Transitions discusses developments in domain-growth kinetics.

Optical Spectroscopy of Lanthanides: Magnetic and Hyperfine Interactions represents the sixth and final book by the late Brian Wybourne, an accomplished pioneer in the spectroscopy of rare earth ions, and Lidia Smentek, a leading theoretical physicist in the field.

2D Metals: Fundamentals, Emerging Applications, and Challenges delves into the state-of- the-art advancements in utilizing 2D metals for emerging applications, encompassing a comprehensive overview of synthetic methodologies and characterization techniques provided by leading experts in the field.

Winner of a 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book AwardMolecular symmetry is an easily applied tool for understanding and predicting many of the properties of molecules.

Concise yet thorough, accessible, authoritative, and affordable.

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Over the past few decades, the excitation and ionization of atmospheric gases has become an area of intense research.

Over the past few decades, the excitation and ionization of atmospheric gases has become an area of intense research.

Topics covered in this text include: structural aspects of polymers; molecular mobility in amorphous solid polymers; non-elastic deformation of solid amorphous polymers; mechanical experiments; interpretation of results; physical ageing of amorphous polymers; and glass transition.

Topics covered in this text include: structural aspects of polymers; molecular mobility in amorphous solid polymers; non-elastic deformation of solid amorphous polymers; mechanical experiments; interpretation of results; physical ageing of amorphous polymers; and glass transition.

applications to the structure of atomic nuclei.

applications to the structure of atomic nuclei.

The purpose of this easy-to-use handbook is to provide a quick, accessible reference to nucleobase complexes.

The purpose of this easy-to-use handbook is to provide a quick, accessible reference to nucleobase complexes.

In this book, new developments based on conceptual density functional theory (CDFT) and its applications in chemistry are discussed.

In this book, new developments based on conceptual density functional theory (CDFT) and its applications in chemistry are discussed.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is widely used across many fields of science because of the rich data it produces, and some of the most valuable data come from studies of nuclear spin relaxation in solution.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is widely used across many fields of science because of the rich data it produces, and some of the most valuable data come from studies of nuclear spin relaxation in solution.

The present monograph attempts to unify these diverse and exciting new developments within a common framework.

Covers: structure of metallic glass alloys; theory of magnetism in noncrystalline solids; electronic structure of metallic glasses; magnetism in transition metal base amorphous alloys; application of metallic glasses in low-frequency magnetic devices; magnetic material properties and applications of metallic glasses in electronic devices; rare-earth transition metal base alloys; corrosion properties of amorphous alloys.

The present monograph attempts to unify these diverse and exciting new developments within a common framework.

Covers: structure of metallic glass alloys; theory of magnetism in noncrystalline solids; electronic structure of metallic glasses; magnetism in transition metal base amorphous alloys; application of metallic glasses in low-frequency magnetic devices; magnetic material properties and applications of metallic glasses in electronic devices; rare-earth transition metal base alloys; corrosion properties of amorphous alloys.

Quantum mechanics, from its birth to quantum information, is explained in a simple way using established mathematical techniques.

Presents a clear systematic molecular-based description of nonlinear optical polarization analysis of chemical and biological assemblies.

Presents a clear systematic molecular-based description of nonlinear optical polarization analysis of chemical and biological assemblies.

Over recent years electronic spectroscopy has developed significantly, with key applications in atmospheric chemistry, astrophysics and astrochemistry.

While modern computational methods can provide us with the wave function of a molecule in numerical form, most computer programs lack the sophisticated tools needed to extract chemical concepts from these wave functions.

Brings Readers from the Threshold to the Frontier of Modern Research Many-Body Methods for Atoms and Molecules addresses two major classes of theories of electron correlation: the many-body perturbation theory and coupled cluster methods.

This new book focuses on nanomaterial development as well as investigations of combustion and explosion processes.

Covering some of the most exciting trends in quantum optics, this textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Covering some of the most exciting trends in quantum optics, this textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.