Publisher's Synopsis
The 30 articles contributed to the unusually large 2008 edition of the annual series summarize recent advances in biophysical chemistry, quantum chemical statistical mechanics, condensed phase chemical kinetics, polymers, ordered arrays, nanoscale materials, and surface phenomena. In the opening chapter, Stuart Rice recounts his research career at the University of Chicago studying the transport properties of liquids, electronic excitation in crystals, quantum control, and the liquid-metal vapor interface. Paper topics include infrared spectroscopy of photo-switchable peptides, ions at aqueous interfaces, fluctuation theorems, elastic modeling of biomembranes and lipid bilayers, and collapse mechanisms of Langmiur monolayers.
