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Electrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Solutions and in Films
A retrospective overview of electrochemical studies of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) is given. The electrochemical behavior of monodisperse NCs...
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Intra-Solid and Inter-Solid Reactions of Molecular Crystals: a Green Route to Crystal Engineering
The thesis developed in this chapter is that reactions taking place between molecular solids or within molecular solids, or involving a molecular...
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Asymmetric Induction in Organic Photochemistry via the Solid-State Ionic Chiral Auxiliary Approach
After a brief introduction and summary of various methods of asymmetric induction in organic photochemistry, the main part of the review covers the...
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The Zintl–Klemm Concept Applied to Cations in Oxides. II. The Structures of Silicates
The structures of ternary and quaternary silicates are revisited on the basis of the Zintl–Klemm concept and the Pearson's generalised octet rule....
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Intraband Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Nanocrystals
This chapter reviews intraband spectroscopy as it has been applied to semiconductor nanocrystals synthesized by colloid methods.
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Modeling Polymer Crystallization
We summarize the salient conclusions derived from Langevin dynamics simulations of many flexible polymer molecules undergoing crystallization from...
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Spinodal Crystallization of Polymers: Crystallization from the Unstable Melt
This paper reviews the authors' investigation into polymer crystallization, especially involving a spinodal decomposition (SD) type phase...
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Molecular Dynamics Modeling of the Crystal-Melt Interfaces and the Growth of Chain Folded Lamellae
The molecular mechanism of polymer crystallization is one of the most difficult problems and has defied innumerable efforts to understand the...
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Topological Mechanism of Polymer Nucleation and Growth – The Role of Chain Sliding Diffusion and Entanglement
Direct evidence of nucleation during the induction period of nucleation from the melt is obtained for the first time by means of small angle X-ray...
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Dynamical Theory of Parametric X-ray Radiation
Previous chapters demonstrate a close analogue between the theory of parametric X-ray radiation (PXR) in thin crystals and the kinematic theory of...
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Radiation from a Charged Particle in Periodic Media: Classical Theory
The method of pseudophotons, considered in the previous chapter, is convenient for qualitative analysis of parametric X-ray radiation (PXR). PXR in...
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Probing the Parity and Spin State
Classification into classes of superconductors with singlet and triplet pairing, respectively, needs information on the parity and spin state of the...
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Sol-Gel Approaches to Photonic Crystal Systems
A prerequisite for an efficient ”molding the flow of light” by photonic crystals is the molding of materials in desired nanostructures. Very often,...
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Electromagnetic Radiation from a Charged Particle in Crystals: Qualitative Consideration
Electromagnetic radiation caused by motion of a charged particle has been studied for more than 100 years. It was firmly believed for an appreciable...
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Probing the Vortices: Lattice Symmetry and Internal Structure
A spatial variation of the superconducting properties occurs when a magnetic field is present perpendicular to the surface of a type-II...
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Thermodynamics – Past, Present and Future
We begin with historical remarks on the basic contributions to thermodynamics and statistics with some bias to scientists working in Berlin as...
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Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect
A brief review is given on a spin Hall effect, where an external electric field induces a transverse spin current. It has been recognized over 30...
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Dynamical Variational Principles for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
The self-energy-functional approach (SFA) is discussed in the context of different variational principles for strongly correlated electron systems....
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Chemistry and Morphological Properties of Metal Interfaces to Organic Semiconductors
Metal contacts to organic semiconductors play a decisive role for the performance of organic based devices such as organic light emitting diodes,...
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Two-Gap Superconductivity in Magnesium Diboride
It is by now generally accepted that the recently discovered superconductor MgB2 is a superconductor with two energy gaps. Here we discuss how this...