The latest developments in photochemistry on solid surfaces, i.e. photochemistry in heterogeneous systems, including liquid crystallines, are brought together for the first time in a single volume. Distinguished photochemists from various fields have contributed to the book which covers a number of important applications: molecular photo-devices for super-memory, photochemical vapor deposition to produce thin-layered electronic semiconducting materials, sensitive optical media, the control of photochemical reactions pathways, etc. Photochemistry on solid surfaces is now a major field and this book which provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the subject will be of interest to a wide range of readers.

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Cover13; -- Photochemistry on Solid Surfaces -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1. Interoduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 General Aspects of Photochemistry. Search for New Basic Types of Photochemical Reactions -- Chapter 2. Photochemical Techniques to Understand Photochemical and Photophysical Features on Solid Surfaces -- 2.1 Fluorescence and Transient Absorption Spectra of Solid Surface: Development of Time-Resolved Total Internal Reflection Spectrpscopy -- 2.2 Laser Flash Photolysis on Solid Surfaces -- 2.3 Excimer Formation with Pyrenes on Silica Surfaces -- 2.4 Photophysics of Acridone, N-Methylacridone, Acridine, and Pyrene Adsorbed on Silica Gel -- 2.5 Heterogeneous Molecular Environments Probed by Fluoro- phores Bonded to Chemically Modified Silica Gel: Fluorescence Decay Measurements under a Microscope -- 2.6 Photoacoustic and Fluorescence Measurements of Energy Transfer in Adsorption Layers -- Chapter 3. Specifice Features of Photochemical Reactions on Solid Surfaces -- 3.1 Photochemistry of Alkyl Ketones in the Adsorbed State: Effects of Solid Surfaces upon the Photolysis -- 3.2 Decomposition of Azocumene on Silica Surfaces -- 3.3 Photolytic and Redox Mechanisms or the Photodecomposition of Ethanoic Acid Adsorbed over Pure and Mixed Oxides -- 3.4 ESR Studies of Alkyl Radicals Adsorbed on Porous Vycor Glass -- 3.5 Chemiluminescence Properties of Adsorbed Biacridylidenes -- Chapter 4. New Developments of Organic Photochemistray on Solid Surfaces -- 4.1 Photochemistry of Dibenzyl Ketone Adsorbed on Size/Shape Selective Faujasite Zeolites: Steric Effects on Product Distributions -- 4.2 Photochemistry of Organic Cations at Charged Interfaces -- 4.3 Electron Transfer between Adsorbed Dye Molecules and Organic Crystals: Model Character of the Adsorption System for Cert -- Chapter 5. New Developments of Inorganic Photochemistry on Solid Surfaces -- 5.1 Inorganic Photochemical Reactions in Low Temperature Matrices and in the Surface-s of Solids -- 5.2 Photochemistry of Metal Carbonyls Physisorbed on Porous Vycor Glass -- 5.3 Photochemistry of Silica-Adsorbed Fe(CO)5 -- 5.4 Photopreparation of Supported Metal Oxide and Metal Carbonyl Catalysts -- Chapter 6. Laser Induced Photoreactions and Photo-CVD on Solid Surfaces -- 6.1 UV Laser Photodissociation of Small Molecules on Solid Surfaces -- 6.2 CO2 Laser Induced Surface Reaction -- 6.3 Photochemical Aspects of Amorphous-Si Nucleation by Photo-CVD -- Chapter 7. Topic of Photochemistry on Semiconducting Materials -- 7.1 Photoprocesses on Fractal Surfaces -- 7.2 New Aspects in Area-Selective Electrode Reactions on IIluminated Semiconductors -- 7.3 Photoluminescent Properties of Cadmium Sulfide Contacted with Gaseous Lewis Acids and Bases -- 7.4 Fluorescence of Dye Molecules Adsorbed on Semiconductor Surfaces -- Chapter 8. Applcations of Photochemistry to Optical Media -- 8.1 Photostability of Near-Infrared Absorbing Organic Dyes in New Optical Media -- 8.2. Photoinduced Phase Transition in Liquid Crystals -- 8.3 Photochemical Surface Reactions of Polymeric Systems: Lithographic Applications -- Chapter 9. Recent Developments of Photochemistry In Liquid Crystals and Proteins -- 9.1 Photoreactivity of Carbonyl Compounds in the Solid State -- 9.2 Ketone Photochemistry as a Probe of Conformational Mobility in Nematic and Smectic Liquid Crystals -- 9.3 Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis via Photochemical Reactions of Chiral Crystals -- 9.4 Fluorescence Quenching of Pyrene as a Monitor of Inter- molecular Diffusion and Intramolecular Chain Bending in Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Ph.

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