This textbook spans solid state and materials chemistry. It is aimed to prime those who have just entered the research field (who must have a thorough grounding in theory), but is also beneficial to researchers with a focus on new directions in HPC.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Research
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
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978-90-481-3868-5 (9789048138685)
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Paul F. McMillan is Sir William Ramsay Professor of Chemistry at University College London. He graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Edinburgh University in 1977 and obtained his Ph.D. degree at Arizona State University (1981). He remained at ASU becoming full Professor in 1992, and Director of the Centre for Solid State Science in 1997. In 2000 he moved to London to occupy a new Chair in Solid State Chemistry at UCL and the Royal Institution, before becoming Ramsay chair at UCL in 2008. In London, he established laboratories for solid state chemistry and materials research under high pressure-high temperature conditions, along with work on nanomaterials and amorphous materials including the unusual phenomena of density-driven liquid-liquid phase transitions and polyamorphism. Now his interests in high pressure science and spectroscopy are extending into biophysics and biology. He received a Wolfson-Royal Society Research Merit Award (2001-2006) and an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship (2006-2011). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received the RSC award for Solid State Chemistry in 2003, and the Peter Day award in 2011. A passionate educator, he won the Rensselaer School of Engineering Innovation in Teaching Award in 2012. He provides consultancy, and serves on the Advisory Board of Chemical Engineering Science, and the Editorial Boards of Powder Technology, Diffusion Fundamentals and the new EMS Journal of Fractal Geometry. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of the Chemical Engineering Department at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and has served as vice-Chair of the AIChE's International Committee. Dr. Filip Meersman is based at the University College London (UK), University of Antwerp (Belgium)and an R&D manager at Mylene NV (Belgium).
Outline contents: 1. Introduction * High pressures in context: from interstellar space to the interiors of stars * A historical overview * Pressure as a variable for chemistry studies 2. Basic principles of high pressure * Hydrothermal bombs and gas vessels * "Large volume" high pressure devices * Diamond anvil cells * Shock waves and explosions * Studying chemistry, structure and properties at high pressure 3. Solid state chemistry, geochemistry and mineralogy * Forming dense mineral structures: understanding the interior of the earth * Project superhard: diamond and other dense materials * New magnetic materials and superconductors * Tuning the properties of solid state materials 4. Molecular chemistry: electronic structure and reaction pathways * Organic reactions at high pressure * Electronic structure in inorganic and organometallic complexes * Supercritical fluids * Condensed gases at very high pressure: new dense solids 5. Biological molecules under pressure * Why is important? From food preservation to the origin of life * Proteins: denaturation, configurational energy landscapes and fibril formation * Lipid packing at high pressure * Nucleic acids * Cells, organisms and biological processes 6. New directions * Using high pressure to design complex new materials * Clathrate structures and energy production * Nanoparticles and high pressure chemistry 7. Epilogue 8. Index
