Turning points in solid-state, materials and surface science A book in celebration of the life and work of Sir John Meurig Thomas

The book serves as a timely tribute to the life and work of Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, who has made monumental contributions to this field of science throughout his distinguished 50-year career in research, during which he has initiated, developed and exploited many important branches of...

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Main Author: Harris, Kenneth D. M.
Other Authors: Edwards, Peter P., Maple, Martin, Adams, Richard D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 2007
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Collection: RSC eBook Collection 1968-2009 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 25: Zeolite modelling: active sites in different framework structures and in different crystallographic positions
  • Chapter 26: Magnetic resonance imaging: a new window on the catalyst operating in the reactor environment
  • Chapter 27: Dissociative chemisorption of hydrogen chloride at Cu(110): atom resolved time-dependent evidence for transient states in the formation of the "final state" stable chloride overlayer
  • Chapter 28: Recent advances in single-site photocatalytic solids constructed within microporous and mesoporous materials
  • Chapter 29: Structural organization of catalytic functions in Mo-based selective oxidation catalysts
  • Chapter 30: Designing active sites at surfaces - from tightly bound to loosely anchored
  • Chapter 31: Polynuclear transition metal cluster complexes containing tin ligands: precursors to new heterogeneous nano-catalysts
  • Chapter 32: Selective oxidation using gold and gold-palladium nanoparticles
  • Chapter 33: Electronic factors in hydrocarbon oxidation catalysis
  • Chapter 34: The importance of selectivity in ammoxidation catalysis
  • Chapter 35: The mysteries of water in catalysts preparation: solvent or much more?
  • Chapter 36: Solid acid microporous H-SAPO-34: from early studies to perspectives
  • Chapter 37: Strategically designed single-site heterogeneous catalysts for clean technology, green chemistry and sustainable development
  • Chapter 38: Catalysis by Lewis acids: basic principles for highly stereoselective heterogeneously-catalyzed cyclization reactions
  • Chapter 39: Recent advances in the XPS spectra of non-conductors
  • Chapter 40: Electron microscopy studies of structural modulations in micro- and meso-porous crystals
  • Chapter 41: Extrapolating from fifty years of dislocation imaging - reaching into the core
  • Chapter 42: Turning points in understanding the emission of brilliant light from highly defective GaN-based materials and devices
  • Chapter 43: Electron tomography: a 3D view of catalysts and nanoscale structures
  • Chapter 44: Nano and mesoporous materials: a study by HREM
  • Chapter 45: In situ direct observation at atomic scale twinning transformations and the formation of carbon nanostructures in WC
  • Chapter 46: A survey of the Bi2O3 - MoO3 binary system
  • Chapter 47: The surface structure of nanoparticulate systems studied by aberration-corrected analytical electron microscopy
  • Chapter 13: Discovering new crystal architectures
  • Chapter 14: Chemical modulations in Pb-Bi-sulphosalts: a glimpse at minerals in solid-state chemistry
  • Chapter 15: Complexity - in the eye of the beholder
  • Chapter 16: Synthesis and characterization of Zn-T-sites in mazzite
  • Chapter 17: Anything protons do, muons do better !
  • Chapter 18: Molecular cohesion and the structure of organic crystals
  • Chapter 19: Aperiodicity in organic materials
  • Chapter 20: From the synthesis of acetylenic natural products to seeing the light with polymers
  • Chapter 21: Molecular recognition within one-dimensional channels
  • Chapter 22: FTIR study of short range mobility in some crystalline peroxides: solid-state rotational isomerism of CO2
  • Chapter 23: From "Nature" to an adventure in single site epoxidation catalysis
  • Chapter 24: A comparison between enzymes and solid state catalysts
  • Chapter 1: Voyages with the Master
  • Chapter 2: Multifaceted studies of zeolites and other catalytic materials
  • Chapter 3: The deductive approach to chemistry, a paradigm shift
  • Chapter 4: Future energy materials
  • Chapter 5: Structure diversity and potential applications of metal-organic coordination polymers
  • Chapter 6: Elucidating crystal growth in nanoporous materials: the importance of microscopy
  • Chapter 7: Exploration of new porous solids in the search for adsorbents and catalysts
  • Chapter 8: Concerning the solid state packing of [(ButCO2)3M2]2(?-9,10-anthracene-dicarboxylate) compounds (M = Mo or W) and other matters
  • Chapter 9: High pressure and high temperature oxidation in the IrSr2RECu2O8 family of cuprates: the disordered multiple perovskite (A1/3A'2/3)(B1/3B'2/3)O3-x phases: Chapter 10: Melting and amorphisation
  • Chapter 11: Computer modelling and solid state chemistry
  • Chapter 12: Towards a catalogue of designer zeolites