Spectroscopy with polarized light : solute alignment by photoselection, in liquid crystals, polymers, and membranes
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Spectroscopy with polarized light : solute alignment by photoselection, in liquid crystals, polymers, and membranes
VCH, c1995
- softcover
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Includes bibliographies and indexes
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Description
This text deals with polarized optical spectroscopy of partially oriented fluid or rigid solutions. Starting from elementary concepts and relying on numerous illustrations, it provides an introduction to those interested in the measurement of the anisotropy of molecular optical properties in the UV, visible or IR regions (one- and two-photon absorption, simultaneous or sequential, luminescence, Raman scattering, natural and magnetic potical activity), or in the determination of uniaxial order and organization in supermolecular assemblies (liquid crystals, stretched polymers, membranes). The orienting effects of radiation (photoselection) are covered as well. A large number of examples of research applications within chemistry, biophysics, biochemistry and polymer science are given, together with examples of practical applications.
Table of Contents
- Introduction and theoretical background
- transition moments
- techniques of alignment and measurement
- quantitative aspects of uniaxial alignment
- processes of rank two
- processes reducible to rank two
- processes of rank four
- examples of applications
- appendix 1 - molecular symmetry and elemental group theory
- appendix 2 - Cartesian tensors and polarized intensities
- appendix 3 - Mueller-Stokes formulation for description of the interaction between polarized light and anisotropic samples
- subject index
- compound index.
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