Handbook of Photochemistry & Photobiology 4 vols

Handbook of Photochemistry and Photobiology is a major reference work that includes the most recent advances and emerging new aspects of photochemistry and photobiology currently studied in academic and industrial research. The four volumes draw on three decades of pioneering research on various aspects of the photochemical and photobiological sciences such as photochemical processes, excited states, energy transfer, mechanism and kinetics of photochemical reactions, emission or absorption spectroscopy, photochemical conversion, solar cells, photocatalysis, photosensitization, photoinitiated polymerization, epoxy polymers, photorefractive polymers supramolecules, dendrimers, host-guest inclusion complexes, photochromic compounds, photoreception, photosynthesis, UV and visible radiation effects, photodynamic therapy, photomedicines, etc. The handbook contains about 50 state-of-the-art chapters written by over 100 international experts from 15 countries. The handbook has been divided into four thematic volumes: Volume 1: Inorganic Photochemistry, Volume 2: Organic Photochemistry, Volume 3: Supramolecular Photochemistry, Volume 4: Photobiology.Most up-to-date reference work summarizing three decades of pioneering research in photochemistry and photobiology. A unique source of in-depth knowledge of recent advances in inorganic, organic and supramolecular photochemistry. Most up-to-date emerging aspects of photodynamic therapy and many other topics in the field of photobiology. Contains 45 state-of-the-art chapters written by over 90 internationally renowned experts from 15 countries. About 10,000 bibliographic citations and thousands of illustrations, figures, tables, chemical structures, and equations. The handbook is intended for a wide audience including researchers, students, and professors working in the field of photochemistry, photobiology, supramolecular photochemistry, laser photochemistry, silicon photochemistry photophysics, photocatalysis, solar energy, materials science, polymer science, photobiological sciences, biochemistry, plant biology, photomedicine, phototechnology, nanotechnology, etc.'The breadth of the fields covered, the multidisciplinary approaches involved, the wide span of activities concerned require a source for quickly obtaining clear, expert and up-to-date information. The present monumental Handbook of Photochemistry and Photobiology fills such a need. It will be an invaluable tool for a very wide range of scientists from different areas in chemistry, biology, physics, materials science as well as in industry.' - Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize Laureate