Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 121

by Ilya Prigogine (Editor), Stuart A. Rice (Editor)

Overview

The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 121 contains the latest research on polymer melts at solid surfaces, infrared lineshapes of weak hydrogen bonds, ab initio quantum molecular dynamics, and many other subjects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471205043
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/18/2002
Series:	Advances in Chemical Physics , #121
Edition description:	Volume 121 ed.
Pages:	568
Product dimensions:	3.90(w) x 3.90(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Ilya Prigogine is Director of the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels, Belgium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977.

Stuart Rice is Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the James Franck Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.

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INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprenhensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

I. PRIGOGINE

STUART A. RICE

Table of Contents

Ultrafast Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers (S. H. Lin, et al.).

Polymer Melts at Solid Surfaces (Arun Yethiraj).

Morphology of Surfaces in Mesoscopic Polymers, Surfactants, Electrons, or Reaction-Diffusion System: Methods, Simulations, and Measurements (Aleksij Aksimentiev, et al.).

Infrared Lineshapes of Weak Hydrogen Bonds: Recent Quantum Developments (Oliver Henri-Rousseau, et al.).

Two-Center Effects in Ionization by Ion-Impact in Heavy-particle Collisions (S. F. C. O'Rourke, et al.).

Evolution Times of Probability Distributions and Averages—Exact Solutions of the Kramers' Problem (Askold N. Malakhov and Andrey L. Pankratov).

Ab Initio Quantum Molecular Dynamics (Michal Ben-Nun and Todd J. Martinez).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

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"...a worthy addition to the Advances in Chemical Physics series...a useful reference for a wide range of researchers..." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 125, No. 21, 2003)

Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

Editorial Reviews

"...this volume follows the excellent tradition of the series and provides a very useful reference for researchers interested in keeping up with advances in the numerous facets of research in chemical physics." (Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 124, 2002)

From the Publisher

Specialists...explain recent developments for scientists working in other areas of chemical physics.

SciTech Book News

Four papers present an overview and analysis of Doppler spectroscopy used with photofragmentation; vibrational predissociation dynamics of Van der Waals complexes and product rotational state distributions; electron scattering by small molecules; and time-dependent semiclassical mechanics. For researchers and students in chemical physics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Nine recent papers represent the current state of chemical physics. They discuss transition path sampling, chemical reaction dynamics, chaos, single molecule spectroscopy, self-similarity, electron- correlated approaches, the computational chemistry of acids, cooperative effects of hydrogen bonding, and nonadiabatic electron- transfer reactions. Numerous charts and graphs provide a visual display of the data. The contributors include chemical engineers, chemical biologists, and other scientists from the United States, Japan, Brazil, and Germany. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR