Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
- 1st Edition, Volume 45 - August 1, 2014
- Latest edition
- Editors: Jean-Claude G. Bunzli, Vitalij K. Pecharsky
- Language: English
The Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths is an ongoing series covering all aspects of rare earth science—chemistry, life sciences, materials science, and physic… Read more
The Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths is an ongoing series covering all aspects of rare earth science—chemistry, life sciences, materials science, and physics. The main emphasis of the Handbook is on rare earth elements [Sc, Y and the lanthanides (La through Lu)] but information is also included, whenever relevant, on the closely related actinide elements. The individual chapters are comprehensive, broad, up-to-date critical reviews written by highly experienced invited experts. The series, which was started in 1978 by Professor Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., combines and integrates both the fundamentals and applications of these elements and now publishes two volumes a year.
- Individual chapters are comprehensive, broad, critical reviews
- Contributions are written by highly experienced, invited experts
- Up-to-date overviews of developments in the field
Researchers working on rare earth materials, scientists and engineers in the rare earth industry, university libraries, research institutes
- Preface
- Chapter 263. Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry of Rare Earths and Actinides
- Chapter 264. Symbiosis of Intermetallic and Salt: Rare-Earth Metal Cluster Complexes with Endohedral Transition Metal Atoms
- Chapter 265. Solid-State Optical Refrigeration
- Chapter 266. Rare Earth Arene-Bridged Complexes Obtained by Reduction of Organometallic Precursors
- Contents of Volumes 1–44
- Index of Contents of Volumes 1–45
- Chapter 263: Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry of Rare Earths and Actinides
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Chemistry of Atomic and Molecular Ions
- 3 Energetics of Key Species
- 4 Conclusions and Future Prospects
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 264: Symbiosis of Intermetallic and Salt: Rare-Earth Metal Cluster Complexes with Endohedral Transition Metal Atoms
- Graphical Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Cluster Complexes {ZRr}Xx
- 3 Synthesis
- 4 Crystal Chemistry
- 5 Electronic Structure
- 6 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 265: Solid-State Optical Refrigeration
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Principles of Solid-State Optical Refrigeration
- 3 Material Considerations
- 4 Experimental Techniques
- 5 Lanthanide-Doped Laser-Cooling Materials
- 6 Toward Laser-Cooling Devices
- 7 Conclusions and Outlook
- Chapter 266: Rare Earth Arene-Bridged Complexes Obtained by Reduction of Organometallic Precursors
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Previous Studies of Arene-Bridged Rare Earth Complexes
- 3 Previous Studies of Metal Complexes Supported By Ferrocene-Based Diamide Ligands and Development of New Rare Earth Starting Materials
- 4 Synthesis of Rare Earth Fused-Arene Complexes and Their Reactivity Toward P4 Activation
- 5 Synthesis and Characterization of Rare Earth Biphenyl Complexes: 6C, 10π-Electron Aromatic Systems
- 6 Group 3 Metal Stilbene Complexes
- 7 Conclusions and Outlook
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 45
- Published: August 1, 2014
- Language: English
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Jean-Claude G. Bunzli
Jean-Claude Bünzli (he/him) is an Honorary Professor emeritus at the EPFL where he founded the Laboratory of Lanthanide Supramolecular Chemistry He earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1968 and a PhD in 1971 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). After two years at the University of British Columbia as a teaching postdoctoral fellow (photoelectron spectroscopy) and one year at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (physical organic chemistry) he was appointed in 1974 as assistant-professor at the University of Lausanne. He launched a research program on the coordination and spectroscopic properties of f-elements and was promoted to full professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry in 1980. During 2009-2013 he was also a World Class University professor at Korea University (South Korea) at the WCU Center for Next Generation Photovoltaic Devices. In 2016, he has been appointed as adjunct professor at the Haimen Institute of Science and Technology (Haimen, Jiangsu, P.R. China) which is a satellite campus of Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests deal with various aspects of luminescent lanthanide coordination and supramolecular compounds, developing luminescent bioprobes and bioconjugates for the detection of cancerous cells with time-resolved microscopy as well as luminescent materials for various photonic applications, including solar energy conversion. In 1989, he founded the European Rare Earths and Actinide Society which coordinates international conferences in the field and for which he is presently acting as president.
Affiliations and expertise
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), SwitzerlandVP
Vitalij K. Pecharsky
V.K. Pecharsky received a combined BSc/MSc degree in Chemistry (1976) and a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry (1979) from Lviv State University (now Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) in Ukraine. He held a faculty appointment at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Lviv State University between 1979 and 1993, after which he moved to Ames, Iowa, where he became a staff member at the U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory. In 1998 he accepted a faculty position at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University, while remaining associated with Ames Laboratory. He was named an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering in 2006. He also serves as a Faculty Scientists, Field Work Project Leader, and Group Leader at Ames Laboratory.
While in Lviv, V. Pecharsky was studying phase relationships and crystallography of ternary intermetallic compounds containing rare earths. After moving to Ames his research interests shifted to examining composition-structure-physical property relationship of rare-earth intermetallic compounds. Together with Karl Gschneidner, Jr., he discovered a new class of materials that exhibit the giant magnetocaloric effect in 1997, triggering worldwide interest in caloric materials and caloric cooling, which promises to become an energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional vapor-compression approach. Today his research interest include synthesis, structure, experimental thermodynamics, physical and chemical properties of intermetallic compounds containing rare-earth metals; anomalous behavior of 4f-electron systems; magnetostructural phase transformations; physical properties of ultra-pure rare earth metals; caloric materials and systems; hydrogen storage materials; mechanochemistry, mechanically induced solid-state reactions and mechanochemical transformations.
He organized the 28th Rare Earth Research Conference in Ames, Iowa in 2017. He serves as co-editor of the Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths and senior editor of the Journal of Alloys and Compounds. He has published over 500 WOS papers (>22 600 cites, h factor = 60).
Affiliations and expertise
Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USARead Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths on ScienceDirect