High Pressure Molecular Science

General, Physical Aspects, Materials Science.- High-Pressure Raman Scattering Studies of Fluids.- Pressure Effects on Non-Linear Optical Phenomena.- Pressure Effects on the Intermolecular Twist of Flexible Molecules in Solid Polymers.- Molecular Dynamics Studies of High Pressure Transformations and Structures.- Experimental Techniques in the Diamond Anvil Cell.- How Accurate are High-Pressure Experiments?.- Investigations of Semiconductor Band Structure Using High Pressure.- Critical- and Wetting-Phenomena Near the Liquid-Vapour Critical Point of Metals.- Neutron Diffraction Studies of Liquid Alloys up to High Temperatures and Pressures.- Mutual Solubility in the Solid Phase of Simple Molecular Systems at High Pressure.- High Pressure Behaviour of the Vibrational Spectra of Mixtures in the Fluid Phase and at the Fluid-Solid Transition.- Singular Solid-Liquid-Gas Like Phase Diagram of Neutral-to-Ionic Phase Transition.- Structure of Carbon Black Particles.- Chemical, Biophysical, Biochemical, and Biomedical Aspects.- High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy at High Pressure.- Pressure-Enhanced Molecular Clustering in Liquid Dimethyl Sulfoxide Studied by Raman Spectroscopy.- Inorganic and Bioinorganic Reaction Kinetics under High Pressure.- Effect of Pressure on Reaction Kinetics. The Components of the Activation Volume Revisited.- Activation of Organic Reactions. High Pressure vs. New Emerging Activation Modes.- Free-Radical Polymerization under High Pressure.- Pressure Effects on Lyotropic Lipid Mesophases and Model Membrane Systems — Effects on the Structure, Phase Behaviour and Kinetics of Phase Transformations.- Optical Spectroscopic Techniques in High Pressure Bioscience.- High Hydrostatic Pressure and Enzymology.- The Phase Diagram and the Pressure-Temperature Behaviorof Proteins.- Pressure Denaturation of Proteins.- Hydrostatic Pressure as a Tool to Study Virus Assembly: Pressure-Inactivation of Viruses by Formation of Fusion Intermediate States.- Structure and Stability of Wildtype and F29W Mutant Forms of the N-Domain of Avian Troponin C Subjected to High Pressures.- High Pressure Effects on Protein Flexibility as Monitored by Tryptophan Phosphorescence.- Stability Diagram of Lipoxygenase as Determined from H/D Exchange Kinetics and from Conformational Changes.- FTIR as a Tool to Study Cold, Heat and Pressure Denaturation of Myoglobin.- On the Use of the Term Osmotic Pressure.- Author Index.- List of Participants.