Lanthanides, coordination polymers metal-organic frameworks

This volume of the Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths adds five new chapters to the science of rare earths, compiled by researchers renowned in their respective fields. Volume 34 opens with an overview of ternary intermetallic systems containing rare earths, transition metals and indium (Chapter 218) followed by an assessment of up-to-date understanding of the interplay between order, magnetism and superconductivity of intermetallic compounds formed by rare earth and actinide metals (Chapter 219). Switching from metals to complex compounds of rare earths, Chapter 220 is dedicated to molecular stmctural studies using circularly polarized luminescence spectroscopy of lanthanide systems, while Chapter 221 examines rare-earth metal-organic frameworks, also known as coordination polymers, which are expected to have many practical applications in the future. A review discussing remarkable catalytic activity of rare earths in site-selective hydrolysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid, or RNA (Chapter 222) completes this book. 

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