Chemical reaction dynamics hierarchical structures

The contributions to this volume cover applied topics such as hierarchically structured materials, molecular reaction dynamics, chemical catalysis, thermodynamics of aggregated phases, molecular self-assembly, chromatography, nanoscale... 

Usual microscopic models of chemical reaction assumes the existence of ordered energy barriers. Chemical reaction is used to be considered as diffusion in the phase space, Kramers (1940). It is not clear, whether how to switch such kinds of microscopic models to traditional CDS models. One of the main open problems in chemical kinetic is to derive CDS model from microscopic picture. It seems to be credible, that ordered energy barriers can lead to traditional Markov models. Random fluctuations in the energy barrier can have ultrametric structure (e.g. Zumofen et al 1986) and may lead to much more complex, i.e. hierarchical dynamic models (Vilgis 1987). Chemical reaction can be interpreted as anomalous, i.e. ultradiffusion (Huberman and Kerszberg 1985).While normal diffusion is characterized by the relation... 

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