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Fülszöveg

TRANSFER AND STORAGE OF ENERGY BY MOLECULES
edited by
George M. Burnett, Principal and Vice-Chancel/or, Heriot Watt University
Alistair M. North, Professor, Physical Chemistry, Strathclyde University
Volume 1: Electronic Energy
Electronic and Vibrational Energy Transfer in Gas Phase Systems; Thermal Population of Excited Electronic States — Excitation and Emission in Shock Waves; Chemistry of Electronically Excited States of Organic Molecules; Energy Transfer in Radiation Chemistry.
Volume 2: Vibrational Energy
The Measurement of Vibrational Relaxation Times in Gases; Vibrational Energy Exchange at Molecular Collisions; The Measurement of Vibrational Relaxation Rates by Shock Techniques; Molecular Relaxation Processes in Liquids; Collisional Excitational and Chemical Reaction.
Volume 3: Rotational Energy
Theory of Transport and Relaxation Processes in Polyatomic Fluids; Studies of Molecular Rotational Processes by Dielectric Methods; Storage and Dissipation of Energy in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TRANSFER AND STORAGE OF ENERGY BY MOLECULES
edited by
George M. Burnett, Principal and Vice-Chancel/or, Heriot Watt University
Alistair M. North, Professor, Physical Chemistry, Strathclyde University
Volume 1: Electronic Energy
Electronic and Vibrational Energy Transfer in Gas Phase Systems; Thermal Population of Excited Electronic States — Excitation and Emission in Shock Waves; Chemistry of Electronically Excited States of Organic Molecules; Energy Transfer in Radiation Chemistry.
Volume 2: Vibrational Energy
The Measurement of Vibrational Relaxation Times in Gases; Vibrational Energy Exchange at Molecular Collisions; The Measurement of Vibrational Relaxation Rates by Shock Techniques; Molecular Relaxation Processes in Liquids; Collisional Excitational and Chemical Reaction.
Volume 3: Rotational Energy
Theory of Transport and Relaxation Processes in Polyatomic Fluids; Studies of Molecular Rotational Processes by Dielectric Methods; Storage and Dissipation of Energy in Viscoelastic Materials; Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in Fluids.
Volume 4: Energy Storage and Transfer Processes in Solid State Systems.
Volume 5: Energy Storage and Transfer Processes in Biological Systems (in preparation).
This, the fourth volume in the series dealing with molecular energy transfer processes, is devoted to those phenomena peculiar to the solid state. In this context two characteristics of solids are of paramount importance: the fact that molecules or constituent atoms are in a constant situation of interaction with their neighbours, and that the solid may or may not be characterized by long range order. The first of these features leads to the possibility of facile energy migration as excitons, phonons or magnons, and the second determines the characteristic behaviour of the migration processes.
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Starting with electronic processes, the volume deals first with energy transfer as excitons in molecular crystals and semiconductors, and then moves to consider those situations where the electrons themselves (or defect electrons) transport energy by conduction in crystalline and amorphous solids. The second group of articles covers various forms of vibrational energy starting from coordinated molecular vibrations as phonons in crystalline and amorphous solids, including the more localized higher frequency modes evidenced in Raman and infrared spectroscopy, and concluding with the lower frequency acoustic phenomena abserved in ordered systems. Finally, the volume includes two articles on the transfer of magnetic energy, dealing with nuclear spin energy exchange in solids, and the more general aspects of magnon and related processes.


Contents

Excitons and Electronic Spectra in Molecular Crystals
Electronic Excitations in Semiconductors
Activation Energies for Electrical Conduction in Crystalline Solids
Electronic Conduction in Amorphous Materials
Phonons in Molecular Crystals
Phonon Processes in Amorphous Solids
Raman and Infrared Studies of Molecular Motion in Organic Crystals
Acoustic Studies of Liquid Crystals and Molecular Solids
Nuclear Spin Energy Exchange in Solids Magnetic Excitations Vissza