Chemical Symmetry Breaking

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: absolute asymmetric synthesis; amorphous-to-crystal phase transformation; amplification of chirality; antiferrolelectricity; attrition-enhanced deracemization; autocatalysis; autonomous motion; biomolecular handedness; chiral; chiral symmetry breaking; chirality; circular dichroism; circularly polarized luminescence; circularly polarized luminescence (CPL); Clebsch dual field; collective dynamics; colloid; conglomerate; conjugated polymer; crystal; dark energy; dark matter; deformation-induced photoluminescence changes; deracemization; detection of real-time symmetry breaking; Diels–Alder reaction; dissipative structure; dressed photon; dynamic crystallization; elastic organic crystals; enantiomorphic crystal; energy conversion; evaporative crystallization; ferroelectricity; fluorescence; fluorescence spectroscopy; host–guest chemistry; inclusion crystals; kinetics; liquid-like cluster; macrocycles; magnetic circularly polarized luminescence (MCPL); magnetic liquid crystals; magneto-LC effect; Majorana fermion; mechanical deformation; mechanical work; mechanofluorochromism; micro-macro duality; molecular motor; molecular robot; nitroxide radicals; non-equilibrium; off-shell quantum field; phase diagrams; photoluminescence; photomechanical; polymorphism; preferential enrichment; quartz crystal microbalance; racemization; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; resonant X-ray scattering; reversible reaction; right–left symmetry breaking; self-oscillation; self-replication; space-like momentum; spin glass state; spin symmetry breaking; spontaneous resolution; subphases; superparamagnetic domain; symmetry breaking; the cosmological term; thermodynamics; two-step nucleation model; vapochromism; Viedma ripening; Weyl tensor; π-conjugated molecules
• ISBN: 3036511318; 9783036511313; 303651130X; 9783036511306
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-1131-3

This book entitled “Chemical Symmetry Breaking” is a collective volume of state-of-the-art reports on unique nonlinear chemical and physical symmetry-breaking phenomena that were experimentally observed upon a thermally or photochemically induced phase transition in various organic condensed phases, such as metastable liquid crystals, crystals, amorphous solids, and colloidal polymer materials, only under nonequilibrium conditions. Each author summarizes the introductory section in simple terms but in detail for beginners in this field. We wish that many readers familiarize themselves with the general concepts and features of nonlinear and nonequilibrium (or out of equilibrium) complexity theory, which govern a variety of unique dynamic behaviors observed in chemistry, physics, life science and other fields, so that they may discover novel symmetry-breaking phenomena in their own research areas.