Lasers in Chemistry

by Lackner, Maximilian; Winter, Franz

• ISBN13: 9783527319978
• ISBN10: 3527319972
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-27
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

These two volumes provide a comprehensive overview of laser applications in many important fields of chemistry. They cover both the gleaning of information as well as the active influencing of reactions, with the applications stretching from chemistry, physics and materials science to biology and medicine. This handy reference also contains an equipment and peripherals overview for laser probing and laser chemistry setups. For chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and laser specialists, as well as those working in the chemical industry.

Author Biography

Maximilian Lackner holds a master's degree in physical and analytical chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. from Vienna University of Technology, Austria. As post-doc, he carried out spectroscopic investigations in optical engines at the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. His main research interest is the use of lasers in chemistry, applied to combustion and ignition. Dr. Lackner is an expert in laser ignition and tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), where he also holds a patent. Apart from his position as senior researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering at Vienna University of Technology, he is founder and chief technical officer of the company ProcessEng Engineering GmbH, also in Vienna.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Contributors.

Probing Matter

General

Principles of Lasers

Laser Safety

Lasers as Probes in Chemistry

Overview

Chemical Sensing Using Quantum Cascade Lasers

Laser Diagnostics of Combustion Processes

LIDAR for Ground- and Airborne Trace Gas Detection

nonlinear Spectroscopy and Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy

Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Applications of TDLAS in Process Industries

Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)

Laser Doppler Anemometry

Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy in Chemistry

Laser Spectroscopy Applied to Catalysis Research

Speciation Analysis Using Lasers

Laser-enhanced Spectroscopy and Coherent Control

Laser-induced Fluorescence (LIF) Spectroscopy

Laser Applications in Combustion Engine Research and Development

Raman Spectroscopy

Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Principles and Applications in Life Sciences

MALDI-MS of Industrial Chemicals and Polymers

Atmospheric-pressure Laser Ionization

High-resolution Molecular Spectroscopy in Low-Temperature Crystalline Matrices

Influencing Matter

Laser to Start and Influence chemical Reactions

Overview

Laser-based Formation of Nanoparticles

Laser Ablation in Background Gas and Its Application to the Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials

Laser-induced Photocatalysis and Its Applications

Laser Enrichment of Isotopes

Reaction Mechanisms in the Gas Phase Studied by Laser Pyrolysis

Femtochemistry: Lasers to Investigate Ultrafast Reactions

Laser-plasma Chemistry: Chemical Reactions Initiated by Laser-produced Plasmas

Laser Micromachining

Laser-induced Chemical Vapor Deposition (LCVD)

Laser-induced Ignition for combustion Engines

Lasers in the Photopolymer Area

Laser Control of Chemical Reactions

Coherent Control of Chemical Dynamics with Lasers

Nanosecond Laser Flash Photolysis

Lasers in Semiconductor Photochemistry

Lasers in Photodynamic Therapy

Photo React

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