| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Theoretical and computational chemistry series ; No. 16
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Theoretical and computational chemistry ; 16.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle -- Series Editor -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 General Introduction -- 1.2 What are Dispersion Forces? -- 1.3 When are Dispersion Forces Important? -- 1.4 Historical Summary of Conceptual Developments -- 1.4.1 Late 19th Century: Discovery of vdW Forces -- 1.4.2 1900s: Early Microscopic Explanations of vdW Forces -- 1.4.3 1920s-1930s: Quantum Mechanical Explanation of vdW Dispersion Forces -- 1.4.4 1920s: Model Pair Potential Between Atoms or Molecules |
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1.4.5 1930s: Early Pairwise Summation Approaches -- 1.4.6 1940s: Electromagnetic Retardation and the Casimir Effect -- 1.4.7 1930s-1960s: Theory and Experiments on Colloids -- 1.4.8 1950s and 1960s: Macroscopic Lifshitz Theory -- 1.4.9 1960s Onwards: Extending Lifshitz to Non-planar Geometries -- 1.4.10 1950s Onwards: is There Life after Lifshitz? -- 1.4.11 1960s-Present: Dispersion Forces via the Physics of Many Interacting Electrons -- 1.4.12 1960s Onwards: Many-electron Quantum Perturbation Theory -- 1.4.13 1960s Onwards: Electron Density Functional Theory |
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1.4.14 2000s Onwards: Explicitly Non-local Density Functionals for Dispersion Interactions -- 1.4.15 Time Dependent Density Functional Theory and Intermolecular Dispersion Energy -- 1.4.16 1990s Onwards: Symmetry Adapted Perturbation Theory -- 1.4.17 21st Century: Modern Approaches to Pairwise Additive vdW Analysis -- 1.4.18 21st Century: Qualitative Failure of Pairwise vdW Additivity in Polarisable and Low-dimensional Systems -- 1.4.19 21st Century: Random Phase Approximation and Related Correlation Calculations of Dispersion Energy -- 1.4.20 2010s: "Many Body Dispersion" |
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1.5 Direct Experimental Measurement of Dispersion Forces -- 1.6 Indirect Measurements of vdW Binding -- 1.7 Nomenclature -- References -- Chapter 2 Basic Concepts From Toy Models 20 -- 2.1 Electrostatic Interaction Between Permanent Dipoles -- 2.2 The Electrostatic Induction Interaction -- 2.3 Quantum and Thermal Dipole-moment Fluctuations in an Isolated System That has No Permanent Dipole -- 2.4 Simplest Model of the van der Waals/Dispersion Energy: Induction Interaction due to Transient Dipoles -- 2.5 London Formula 1 -- 2.6 vdW Interaction From Zero-point Energy of Coupled Oscillators |
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2.7 Physical Understanding From the Transient Dipole and Coupled Oscillator Models -- 2.8 Pauli Repulsion -- 2.9 Higher Terms Modifying the R−6 Dispersion Interaction -- 2.10 Electromagnetic Retardation -- 2.11 The Feynman Approach to van der Waals Forces -- 2.12 Dispersion Interactions for Larger Systems -- Pairwise Additive Approach -- 2.13 Effects Beyond Pairwise Additivity -- 2.14 Dispersion Interactions for Larger Systems: Macroscopic Methods -- 2.15 Dielectric Contrast as the Driver of Macroscopic vdW Interactions -- 2.16 Attractive and Repulsive Dispersion Interactions |
| Summary |
Reviewing current understanding of the physical origin and modelling of London dispersion forces, this book is ideal for theoretical, physical and synthetic chemists. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Intermolecular forces -- Computer simulation.
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Intermolecular forces -- Computer simulation. |
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Intermolecular forces. |
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Molecules -- Mathematical models.
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Molecules -- Mathematical models. |
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Molecules. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dobson, John, author.
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Jansen, Georg, author.
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Gould, Tim, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ángyán, János, 1956- London dispersion forces in molecules, solids and nano-structures. Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018 9781782620457 (OCoLC)1064680700 |
| ISBN |
9781839160189 electronic book |
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1839160187 electronic book |
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9781782620457 |
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1782620451 |
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