New and Important Titles in Chemistry and Biochemistry

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We would like to point your attention to our selected titles in Chemistry. For a limited time, you can order your copies at a 25% discount from our online bookstore. Quote WJAN25C as you order. This offer is valid from now till 28 Feb, 2010. Do recommend these titles to your library and colleagues.

4D Electron Microscopy
Imaging in Space and Time
by Ahmed H Zewail (California Institute of Technology, USA) & John M Thomas (University of Cambridge, UK)

978-1-84816-390-4: US$88 / £66   US$66 / £49.50
978-1-84816-400-0(pbk): US$48 / £36   US$36 / £27
(360pp)

"This is a unique and ground-breaking book. For the first time it includes the important time dimension in electron microscopy, revealing time-resolved electron micrographs and diffraction patterns on an almost unbelievably fast time scale. The book is written with great clarity and is lavishly illustrated with some stunning micrographs." --Professor Colin Humphreys,Cambridge University, UK

The modern electron microscope, as a result of recent revolutionary developments and many evolutionary ones, now yields a wealth of quantitative knowledge pertaining to structure, dynamics, and function barely matched by any other single scientific instrument. It is also poised to contribute much new spatially-resolved and time-resolved insights of central importance in the exploration of most aspects of condensed matter, ranging from the physical to the biological sciences.

Bioanalytical Chemistry
by Andreas Manz (Imperial College London) , Nicole Pamme (Imperial College London) , & Dimitri Iossifidis (Imperial College London)

978-1-86094-370-6: US$86 / £63   US$64.50 / £47.25
978-1-86094-371-3(pbk): US$33 / £22   US$24.75 / £16.50
(220pp)

Table of Contents (59k)
Preface (41k)
Chapter 1: Biomolecules (739k)
Chapter 1.1: Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins (508k)
Chapter 1.2: Nucleic Acids (447k)
Chapter 1.3: Biomolecules in Analytical Chemistry (77k)

"The book is well written and easy to read ... It will complement any lecture courses on modern analytical chemistry as it focuses on one of the most topical areas in the field of analysis — that of bioanalysis ... this first edition is an excellent foundation from which to build as the new techniques become accepted. I would highly recommend it to any student (or indeed other scientists) with interest in bioanalysis." --Chemistry World

Interdisciplinary knowledge is becoming more and more important to the modern scientist. This invaluable textbook covers bioanalytical chemistry (mainly the analysis of proteins and DNA) and explains everything for the nonbiologist. Electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, biosensors, bioassays, DNA and protein sequencing are not necessarily all included in conventional analytical chemistry textbooks. The book describes the basic principles and the applications of instrumental and molecular methods. It is particularly useful to chemistry and engineering students who already have some basic knowledge about analytical chemistry.

Nanostructured And Photoelectrochemical Systems For Solar Photon Conversion
edited by Mary D Archer (Imperial College, UK) & Arthur J Nozik (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)

978-1-86094-255-6: US$208 / £112   US$156 / £84
978-1-84816-154-2(ebook): US$270   US$202.50
(780pp)

Table of Contents (48k)
Preface (48k)
Chapter 8: Dye-Sensitised Mesoscopic Solar Cells (1,609k)

"This book provides an excellent overview of nano-structured and photochemical systems for solar photon energy conversion ... a historic overview is given as well — to an extent difficult to find elsewhere ... It provides access to the latest findings in these rapidly developing fields and is certainly suitable for PhD students, and researchers with backgrounds both in physics and chemistry." --Dr Christian Konrgstein, European Patent Office

In this book, expert authors describe advanced solar photon conversion approaches that promise highly efficient photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells with sophisticated architectures on the one hand, and plastic photovoltaic coatings that are inexpensive enough to be disposable on the other. Their leitmotifs include light-induced exciton generation, junction architectures that lead to efficient exciton dissociation, and charge collection by percolation through mesoscale phases. Photocatalysis is closely related to photoelectrochemistry, and the fundamentals of both disciplines are covered in this volume.

Physical Biology
>From Atoms to Medicine
edited by Ahmed H Zewail (California Institute of Technology, USA)

978-1-84816-199-3: US$177 / £98   US$132.75 / £73.50
978-1-84816-200-6(pbk): US$88 / £48   US$66 / £49.50
978-1-84816-201-3(ebook): US$230   US$172.50
(584pp)

"Even the shorter contributions, written by masters of their fields, are penetrating." --Chemistry World

This is an avant-garde book edited by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail with contributions from eminent scientists including four Nobel prize winners. The perspectives of these world leaders in physics, chemistry, and biology define potential new frontiers at the interface of disciplines and including physical, systems, and synthetic biology.

This book brings about the confluence of concepts and tools, and that of different disciplines, to address significant problems of our time: visualization; theory and computation for complexity; macromolecular function, protein folding and misfolding; and systems integration from cells to consciousness. The scope of tools is wide-ranging, spanning imaging, crystallography, microfluidics, single-molecule spectroscopy, and synthetic probe targeting. Concepts such as dynamic self-assembly, molecular recognition, non-canonical amino acids, and others are covered in various chapters as they are cornerstones in building the trilogy description of behavior-structure, dynamics, and function.

MOLECULAR THEORY OF WATER AND AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS Part 1: Understanding Water by Arieh Ben-Naim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)	THE BELL THAT RINGS LIGHT A Primer in Quantum Mechanics and Chemical Bonding by Dorothy Wallace (Dartmouth College, USA) & Joseph J BelBruno (Dartmouth College, USA)	NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY A Collection of Reviews from Nature Journals edited by Peter Rodgers (Nature Publishing Group)
NANOSTRUCTURES AND NANOMATERIALS Synthesis, Properties and Applications by Guozhong Cao (University of Washington, USA)	AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERFACES AND COLLOIDS The Bridge to Nanoscience by John C Berg (University of Washington, USA)	CURRENT AT THE NANOSCALE An Introduction to Nanoelectronics by Colm Durkan (University of Cambridge, UK)

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