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Part II: Experiment and Theory
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15
Conical
Intersections
Electronic Structure, Dynamics and Spectroscopy
edited by Wolfgang Domcke (Technical University of
Munich, Germany), David R Yarkony (John Hopkins University, USA) &
Horst Köppel (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
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16
Overviews
of Recent Research on Energetic Materials
edited by Robert W Shaw (Army Research Office, USA),
Thomas B Brill (University of Delaware, USA) & Donald L Thompson
(University of Missouri, USA)
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Angeles, USA)
"This is an outstanding and much anticipated volume, which collects in
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handsomely produced and the selections are well chosen … Every scholar
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This
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