Chemical physics Books

Book SynopsisThis book addresses the problem of teaching the Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding of atoms and molecules to high school and university students. It presents the outcomes of thorough investigations of some teaching methods as well as an unconventional didactical approach which were developed during a seminar for further training organized by the University of Bordeaux I for teachers of the physical sciences.The text is the result of a collective effort by eleven scientists and teachers: physicists and chemists doing research at the university or at the CRNS, university professors, and science teachers at high-school or university level.While remaining wide open to the latest discoveries of science, the text also offers a large number of problems along with their solutions and is illustrated by several pedagogic suggestions. It is intended for the use of teachers and students of physics, chemistry, and of the physical sciences in general.Table of ContentsPart 1 Historical survey: main events in the history of chemical bonding. Part 2 Theoretical bases for the description of molecular electronic structure and chemical bonding - quantum mechanics and molecular symmetry: quantum bases of chemical bonding; molecular symmetry, its description and consequences. Part 3 Two complementary descriptions of chemical bonding - mechanical treatment of chemical bonding: fundamentals; applications. Part 4 Orbitals in chemical bonding - applications and limits: one-electron treatment of many-electron particles; MOs and chemical bonding; beyond the one-electron description.

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Book SynopsisSilicon, the basic material for a multibillion-dollar industry, is the most widely researched and applied semiconductor, and its surfaces are the most thoroughly studied of all semiconductor surfaces. Silicon Surfaces and Formation of Interfaces may be used as an introduction to graduate-level physics and chemical physics. Moreover, it gives a specialized and comprehensive description of the most common faces of silicon crystals as well as their interaction with adsorbates and overlayers. This knowledge is presented in a systematic and easy-to-follow way. Discussion of each system is preceded by a brief overview which categorizes the features and physical mechanisms before the details are presented. The literature is easily available, and the references are numerous and organized in tables, allowing a search without the need to browse through the text.Though this volume focuses on a scientific understanding of physics on the atomistic and mesoscopic levels, it also highlights existing and potential links between basic research in surface science and applications in the silicon industry. It will be valuable to anyone writing a paper, thesis, or proposal in the field of silicon surfaces.Table of ContentsFundamental concepts and methods; the famous Si(001) surface; atomically flat and clean surfaces; morphology of clean silicon surfaces; chemical properties of silicon surfaces; on the road to devices.

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Book SynopsisThis introduction to quantum field theory (QFT) is written by a physical chemist for physical chemists, chemical physicists, and other non-physicists with knowledge of quantum theory but who want to explore ways in which they might use the power of QFT in their investigations. This book starts where many graduate courses in quantum theory that are offered to chemistry students leave off and first develops some of the necessary tools, such as Fock algebra, which is applied to solving the quantum oscillator problem. Then it is used to develop the theory of coherent states, time-dependent perturbation theory, and the treatment of bosons and fermions. With this background, the QFT of a perfect gas is derived and a connection to thermodynamics is demonstrated. Application to imperfect gases provides a new approach to modelling gas-liquid phase transitions. The book concludes with photons and their interaction with molecular ensembles, and brings us to full circle by deriving the blackbody radiation law, which started it all. The power of the QFT methodology and the breadth of its applications should fascinate the reader as it has the author.

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Book SynopsisChemical reactions at high pressures are widely used in modern technology (supercritical extraction is an example). On the other hand, critical phenomena is the more advanced field in statistical mechanics. There are thousands of theoretical and experimental articles published by physicists, chemists, biologists, chemical engineers and material scientists, but, to our knowledge, there are no books which link these two phenomena together. This book sums up the results of 222 published articles, both theoretical and experimental, which will be of great benefit to students and all researchers working in this field.Table of ContentsCriticality and Chemistry; The Effect of Criticality on Chemical Reaction; Effect of Chemistry on Critical Phenomena; Phase Separation in Reactive Systems; Comments on the Geometry of the Phase Diagram of a Reaction Mixture; Sound Propagation and Light Scattering in Chemically Reactive Systems.

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Book SynopsisAll living organisms consist of soft matter. For this reason alone, it is important to be able to understand and predict the structural and dynamical properties of soft materials such as polymers, surfactants, colloids, granular matter and liquids crystals. To achieve a better understanding of soft matter, three different approaches have to be integrated: experiment, theory and simulation. This book focuses on the third approach — but always in the context of the other two.Table of ContentsComputer Modeling of Liquid Crystals; Drop Dynamics in Complex Fluids; Theoretical Modeling of Hydrogen Bonding in Macromolecular Solutions; The Combination of Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics; Dynamic Self-Consistent Field Theory; Self-Consistent Field Theory of Block Copolymers; Elucidation of Conformational Behavior of a Giant DNA; Single Molecular Observation and Theoretical Modeling; Polymer Phase Seperation; Molecular Dynamics in Crystallization of Helical Polymers; Crystal Ordering and Chirality Selection; Interplay of Liquid-Liquid Demixing and Polymer Crystallization in Multi-Component Systems;

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Book SynopsisThis book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students and other researchers who possess an introductory background in materials physics and/or chemistry, and an interest in the physical and chemical properties of novel materials, especially transition metal oxides.New materials often exhibit novel phenomena of great fundamental and technological importance. Contributing authors review the structural, physical and chemical properties of notable 4d- and 5d-transition metal oxides discovered over the last 10 years. These materials exhibit extraordinary physical properties that differ significantly from those of the heavily studied 3d-transition metal oxides, mainly due to the relatively strong influence of the spin-orbit interaction and orbital order in 4d- and 5d materials. The immense growth in publications addressing the physical properties of these novel materials underlines the need to document recent advances and the current state of this field. This book includes overviews of the current experimental situation concerning these materials.Table of ContentsStructure and Properties of Iridium Oxides (Gang Cao); Describing the Structure-Property Relationships of Transition-Metal Magnetic Oxides: Conceptual, Theoretical and Computational Issues (H J Xiang, C Lee, J Kang, W-J Son, E J Kan, F Wu, C Tian, Y M Zhang, J Liu, J L Bettis, H-J Koo & M-H Whangbo); Spectroscopic Studies of Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling in 4d- and 5d-Transition Element Oxides (Soon Jae Moon & Tae Won Noh); X-Ray Scattering Studies of 4d- and 5d-Transition Metal Oxides (Bernhard Keimer & Ionnis Zegkinoglou); Exploring the Magnetostructural Phases of the Layered Ruthenates with Raman Scattering: Raman Spectroscopy of Orbital Order in Layered Ruthenium Oxides (Lance Cooper); Novel Magnetotransport and Spintronic Effects in Ruthenium Oxides (Gang Cao & Lance E De Long); Metal-Insulator Transition and Superconductivity in n=1 Ruddleston-Popper Ruthenates (Rongying Jin); Superconducting Iron Pnictides (Ward Plummer).

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