Statistical Physics of Nanoparticles in the Gas Phase

Summary of

Chapter 5
new section: rate constants with microcanonical temperature
new section: Larger fragments
new section: quantum statistics effect in electron emission
New section: Kinetic energy release split into two sections

Chapter 6
New chapter: Radiation, one section from previous chapter 5,
one new section on infrared radiation.

Chapter 7
New section: Kinetic energy release in the evaporative ensemble
New section: Radiative cooling in the evaporative ensemble

Chapter 8
The chapter on abundances will be expanded to include a better treatment of nu- cleation, including different kernels for the Smoluchowski equation, the gelation transition, and exact and asymptotic solutions. Material on nucleation theorem will be add

Chapter 9
New section split off, plus some new material in section: Thermostats in MD simulations

Chapter 10
New section: Magnetism

New chapter 11
Hot electron reactions

Chapter 13
New section Solid-to-solid phase transition

The changes relative to the first edition are of two types. One is expansion of the scope of the material covered. The expansions of chapters 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 belong to that category.

The other type is the introduction of new developments in the matter. This is the main motivation for the additions to chapters 5, 7, 11.

There have been numerous minor changes, also in the chapters not listed above. Numerical summary 2nd (1st) editions

Tables 8 (5)

Figures 102 (80)

Exercises 125 (74)

Equations 1276 (922)