Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 121 (eBook)

Ilya Prigogine is Director of the International Solvay Institutes in Brussels, Belgium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977. Stuart Rice is Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the James Franck Institute and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.

Ultrafast Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Bacterial Photosynthetic
Reaction Centers (S. H. Lin, et al.).

Polymer Melts at Solid Surfaces (Arun Yethiraj).

Morphology of Surfaces in Mesoscopic Polymers, Surfactants,
Electrons, or Reaction-Diffusion System: Methods, Simulations, and
Measurements (Aleksij Aksimentiev, et al.).

Infrared Lineshapes of Weak Hydrogen Bonds: Recent Quantum
Developments (Oliver Henri-Rousseau, et al.).

Two-Center Effects in Ionization by Ion-Impact in Heavy-particle
Collisions (S. F. C. O'Rourke, et al.).

Evolution Times of Probability Distributions and Averages--Exact
Solutions of the Kramers' Problem (Askold N. Malakhov and Andrey L.
Pankratov).

Ab Initio Quantum Molecular Dynamics (Michal Ben-Nun and Todd J.
Martinez).

Author Index.

Subject Index.

"...this volume follows the excellent tradition of the series and
provides a very useful reference for researchers interested in
keeping up with advances in the numerous facets of research in
chemical physics." (Journal of the American Chemical
Society, Vol. 124, 2002)