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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths

Including Actinides

  • 1st Edition, Volume 49 - July 28, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Jean-Claude G. Bunzli, Vitalij K. Pecharsky
  • Language: English

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Description

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 book's main emphasis 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.

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 publishes two volumes a year.

Key features

  • Presents up-to-date overviews of new developments in the field of rare earths, covering both their physics and chemistry
  • Contains Individual chapters that are comprehensive and broad, with critical reviews
  • Provides contributions from highly experienced, invited experts

Readership

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

Table of contents

  • Preface
    • Chapter 278: Rare Earth-Doped Phosphors for White Light-Emitting Diodes
    • Chapter 279: REE Mineralogy and Resources
    • Chapter 280: Quantum Critical Matter and Phase Transitions in Rare Earths and Actinides
    • Chapter 281: Lanthanides in Luminescent Thermometry
  • Contents of Volumes 1–48
  • Index of Contents of Volumes 1–49
  • Chapter 278: Rare Earth-Doped Phosphors for White Light-Emitting Diodes
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 What is LED Lighting?
    • 3 Phosphor Requirements for LED Lighting
    • 4 Phosphor Materials for White LEDs
    • 5 Synthesis Methods of White LED Phosphors
    • 6 Implementing Phosphors in White LED Lamps
    • 7 Tabulation of Luminescence Data of Phosphors for White LEDs
    • 8 Concluding Remarks
  • Chapter 279: REE Mineralogy and Resources
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Geochemistry of REEs
    • 3 Rare Earth Mineralogy
    • 4 Introduction to REE Deposits
    • 5 Summary
    • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 280: Quantum Critical Matter and Phase Transitions in Rare Earths and Actinides
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Historical Background
    • 3 Present Theories
    • 4 Present Materials and Experiments
    • 5 Quantum Criticality Beyond Rare Earths and Actinides
    • 6 Summary and Conclusions
    • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 281: Lanthanides in Luminescent Thermometry
    • Abstract
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Luminescent Thermometers
    • 3 Thermometer Performance
    • 4 Thermal Response Rationalizing
    • 5 Examples
    • 6 Conclusion and Perspectives
    • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 49
  • Published: August 1, 2016
  • 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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