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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths

Including Actinides

  • 1st Edition, Volume 57 - August 20, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Pecharsky Vitalij, Jean-Claude G. Bunzli
  • Language: English

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: Including Actinides, Volume 57, is a continuous series of books covering all aspects of rare earth science, including… Read more

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Description

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: Including Actinides, Volume 57, 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.

Key features

  • Presents up-to-date overviews and new developments in the field of rare earths, covering both their physics and chemistry
  • Contains Individual chapters that are comprehensive and broad, along 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

312. Rare earth transition metal plumbides—An update

Steffen Klenner and Rainer Pöttgen

313. Forensic applications of rare earths: Anticounterfeiting materials and latent fingerprint developers

Giada Truccolo, Rhiannon E. Boseley, Simon W. Lewis and William J. Gee

314. Recent developments in lanthanide chelates as luminescent labels for biomedical analyses

Kazuko Matsumoto

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 57
  • Published: August 20, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

PV

Pecharsky Vitalij

Vitalij Pecharsky works at Iowa State University, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Iowa State University, USA

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

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