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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths

  • 1st Edition, Volume 48 - November 17, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jean-Claude G. Bunzli, Vitalij K. Pecharsky
  • Language: English

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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths

is a continuous series of books covering all aspects of rare earth science, including 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, now publishing two volumes a year.

Key features

  • Individual chapters are comprehensive, broad, critical reviews on the topic of rare earths
  • Contributions are written by highly experienced, invited experts
  • Up-to-date overviews of developments in the field
  • Includes update on many of the closely related actinide elements

Readership

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

Table of contents

  • Preface
    • Chapter 274: Persistent Phosphors
    • Chapter 275: Quaternary R2X3PbXZX2 (X = S, Se; Z = Si, Ge, Sn) Chalcogenides
    • Chapter 276: Hybrid Materials of the f-Elements Part II: The Uranyl Cation
    • Chapter 277: Progress in the Separation Processes for Rare Earth Resources
  • Contents of Volumes 1–47
  • Index of Contents of Volumes 1–48
  • Chapter 274: Persistent Phosphors
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 History of Persistent Luminescence
    • 3 Terminology and Publication Analysis
    • 4 Experimental Methods
    • 5 Measuring Afterglow Intensities
    • 6 Observation by the Human Eye
    • 7 Persistent Phosphors: Materials
    • 8 TL and Afterglow Curves
    • 9 Applications
    • 10 Persistent Luminescence for In Vivo Imaging
    • 11 Outlook
  • Chapter 275: Quaternary R2X3PbXZX2 (X = S, Se; Z = Si, Ge, Sn) Chalcogenides
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Synthesis Conditions
    • 3 Ternary Compounds in the PbZX (X = S, Se; Z = Si, Ge, Sn) Systems
    • 4 Quaternary R2X3PbXZX2 (X = S, Se; Z = Si, Ge, Sn) Systems
    • 5 Magnetic Properties of Quaternary Compounds in the R2X3PbXZX2 (X = S, Se; Z = Si, Ge, Sn) Systems
    • 6 Conclusions and Outlook
  • Chapter 276: Hybrid Materials of the f-Elements Part II: The Uranyl Cation
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Uranyl Crystal Chemistry
    • 3 Inorganic Uranyl Phases
    • 4 Introduction to Hybrid Materials and Coordination Polymers
    • 5 Common Ligands Arranged by Functional Group
    • 6 Chelating Ligands
    • 7 Uranyl Hybrid Materials Containing Ancillary Organic Species
    • 8 Heterometallic Uranyl Hybrid Materials
    • 9 A Hybrid Approach to Uranyl-Containing Coordination Polymer Syntheses
    • 10 Combining Direct Coordination and Supramolecular Chemistry
    • 11 Introducing Control: Restricting Uranyl Speciation in Aqueous Media
    • 12 Expanding the Supramolecular Strategy: Accessing the “yl” Oxygens
    • 13 Concluding Remarks
    • Chapter 277: Progress in the Separation Processes for Rare Earth Resources
      • Abstract
      • 1 Introduction
      • 2 Progress in the Fundamental Research on Rare Earth Separation
      • 3 Progress in Rare Earth Separation Processes
      • 4 Preparation of High-purity Rare Earths and the Associated Element Thorium
      • 5 Preparation of High-purity Rare Earth Metals
      • 6 Summary and Perspective

    • Product details

    • Edition: 1
    • Latest edition
    • Volume: 48
    • Published: November 18, 2015
    • 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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