Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 121 - by Ilya Prigogine & Stuart A Rice Hardcover

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

Edited by Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine and renowned authority Stuart A. Rice, the Advances in Chemical Physics series provides a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations in every area of the discipline. Experts in the field present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest, and the format encourages the expression of individual points of view. Chapters in Volume 121 include:

• Ultrafast dynamics and spectroscopy of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers
• Polymer melts at solid surfaces
• Morphology of surfaces in mesoscopic polymers, surfactants, electrons, or reaction-diffusion systems: methods, simulations, and measurements
• Infrared lineshapes of weak hydrogen bonds: recent quantum developments
• Two centre effects in ionization by ion-impact in heavy-particle collisions
• Evolution times of probability distributions and averages -- exact solutions of the Kramer's Problem
• Ab initio quantum molecular dynamics

Advances in Chemical Physics remains the premier venue for presentations of new findings in the field.

Review Quotes

"...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)

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.