In Brief

Biologie Structurale: Principes et méthodes biophysiques - MéthodesBiophysiques pour l'Etude des Macromolécules

Joel Janin and Muriel Delepierre

Hermann, 293 rue Lecourbe, 75015 Paris, 1994, 319 pp. 60.00 FF.

The first didactical introduction to the physical methods used to tackle biological, and for the most part structural problems, written in French, aimed at (French-speaking) students interested in entering the field or those who simply want to widen their scientific horizons.

Correlations, Transformations, and Interactions in Organic Crystal Chemistry

D. W. Jones, U. Bradford, England and A. Katrusiak, Adam Mickiewicz U., Poland

1994, 328 pp., 208 line illustrations, £50.00, Oxford University Press/IUCr.
Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Organic Crystal Chemistry (1992)

Covers emerging areas of research in Structure determination, including experimental techniques for owders and less amenable compounds, and the study of solid-state transformations and structure correlations.

Introduction to Surface Chemistry and Catalysis

Gabor A. Somorjai

Wiley, NY, USA, 1994, 667 pp., $59.95

Somorjai, a pioneer in surface chemistry, presents the underlying principles of surface chemistry and an overview of current understanding of the structure, thermodynamics, dynamics, electrical properties and bonding of clean surfaces and adsorbed monolayers.

Microcrystalline and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors

edited by R. W. Collins, C. C. Tsai, F. Koch and L. Brus

161 papers, 1059 pp., $72.00, MRS Symposium Proceedings Series

Recent advances in semiconductor nanocrystals; porous silicon; nanocrystalline, microcrystalline and polycrystalline films; and single crystal quantum structures.

Structure of Crystals - Modern Crystallography 2

B. K. Vainshtein, V. M. Fridkin, V. L. Indenbom

1995, 520 pp., 423 figures, £51.50, Springer-Verlag. (Originally published as volume 21 in the series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences).

Modern Crystallography provides an encyclopedic exposition of the field in four volumes written by Russian scientists. Structure of Crystals describes the ideal, real, and atomic structure of crystals as well as their electronic structures. This second edition is complemented with recent data on many types of crystal structures - fullerenes, high-temperature superconductors, minerals, liquid crystals, etc.