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Reviews
‘Reviews’ is the journal of the Editorial
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Physical Sciences Centre. This issue of Reviews continues our series of distinctive publications.
It is issued twice yearly in This one should be easily recognised firstly as one from our ‘stable’
Spring and Autumn. but also as our ‘reviews’ journal (but a separate issue to that
previously distributed). Don’t forget the additional contents page on the
The journal is free of charge to rear cover with resources listed by subject area rather than
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education institutions. The Again we have a wealth of book reviews, 26 in total, ranging from
material is also published molecules of murder, nanoscience and SI data, to fundamentals of
electronically on our web site. physics and nuclear physics, plus working one-to-one with students
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In this issue...
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Book reviews...
Please contact the Centre. 2 Asymmetric Synthesis – The Essentials
3 Chemical Structure and Reactivity: an integrated approach
The Physical Sciences Centre 4 Chemistry
is funded by the Higher 6 E-learning and Social Networking Handbook...
Education Academy 8 Electrochemistry
(www.heacademy.ac.uk) and is 10 Fundamentals of Physics
part of the Academy’s Subject 12 Introduction to Modern Thermodynamics
Network. 14 Introduction to Nanoscience
17 Learning to Solve Complex Scientific Problems
The Centre is supported by the 19 Mass Spectrometry: principles and applications
Universities of Hull, Liverpool 21 Molecular Electronics: from principles to practice
and Surrey. 23 Molecules of Murder
25 Nuclear and Particle Physics: an introduction
27 Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research
30 Physics
31 Physics of Functional Materials
33 Practical Organic Synthesis: a student’s guide
35 Reactions and Syntheses in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory
37 Science Learning, Science Teaching
38 SI Chemical Data
40 Spectacular Chemical Experiments
41 Structure and Reactivity in Organic Chemistry
42 Surface Science: Foundations of Catalysis and Nanoscience
44 Symmetry and Structure: readable group theory for chemists
45 The Investigation of Organic Reactions and their Mechanisms
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8 Reviews
Electrochemistry
These five chapters are the physico-chemical core of the text. Particularly
in Chapter 5, many new experimental techniques, besides classical
methods, are introduced such as SPM, in situ IR, ESR, electrochemical
MS, etc. It is interesting to note that three out of four cover images
(SEIRAS curves, CV curves and one SPM topograph) are selected from
Chapter 5.
Electrochemistry
There are some suggestions for the book from the Overall, this is a very solid and useful textbook. I highly
viewpoint of a researcher. First, the full title of journal recommend it to students and researchers.
publications could be given for the references listed at
the end of each chapter. Second, for some figures
such as Fig 6.6 to 6.10, no citations were given. The
readers will not be sure whether these figures are
unpublished results or not. Third, not enough details
were provided in some figure captions, such as Fig
5.9 and Fig 5.10 (single crystalline or polycrystalline Pt
samples?). Lastly, the quality of some figures was not
very high.