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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths

  • 1st Edition, Volume 46 - November 25, 2014
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jean-Claude G. Bunzli, Vitalij K. Pecharsky
  • Language: English

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Description

The Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths is a continuous series of books 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 whenever relevant, information is also included 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.

Key features

  • Individual chapters are comprehensive, broad, critical reviews
  • Contributions are written by highly experienced, invited experts
  • Up-to-date overviews of developments in the field

Readership

Researchers working on rare earth materials, scientists and engineers in the rare earth industry, university libraries, research institutes

Table of contents

  • Preface
    • Chapter 267: Rare Earth-Doped Crystals for Quantum Information Processing
    • Chapter 268: Rey-Rich Mud: A Deep-Sea Mineral Resource for Rare Earths and Yttrium
  • Contents of Volumes 1–45
  • Index of Contents of Volumes 1–46
  • Chapter 267: Rare Earth-Doped Crystals for Quantum Information Processing
    • Graphical Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Quantum Information Processing
    • 3 Coherent Light-Atom Interactions
    • 4 Rare Earth-Doped Crystals
    • 5 Quantum Memories for Light
    • 6 Quantum Computing
    • 7 Conclusion and Outlook
    • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 268: REY-Rich Mud: A Deep-Sea Mineral Resource for Rare Earths and Yttrium
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Distribution of REY-Rich Muds
    • 3 Lithological and Geochemical Characteristics of REY-Rich Muds
    • 4 Host Mineral of REY in REY-Rich Mud
    • 5 Genesis of REY-Rich Muds
    • 6 Resource Potential and Advantages of Developing REY-Rich Mud Deposits
    • 7 Development Systems
    • 8 Summary and Conclusions
    • Acknowledgment
  • Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 46
  • Published: November 25, 2014
  • Language: English

About the editors

JB

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), Switzerland

VP

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, USA

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