edited by James F Wishart (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) & BSM Rao (University of Pune, India)

Recent Trends in Radiation Chemistry is a state-of-the-art review of the present status and future trends in the field of radiation chemistry research. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from the historical perspective, instrumentation of accelerators in the nanosecond to femtosecond region, through the use of radiation chemical methods in the study of antioxidants and nanomaterials, radiation induced DNA damage by ionizing radiation involving both direct and indirect effects, to ultrafast events in free electron transfer, radiation-induced processes at solid-liquid interfaces and the recent work on infrared spectroscopy and radiation chemistry.

The contributors to the book are world-renowned specialists. The book is unique in that it covers a wide spectrum of topics that will be of great interest to beginners as well as experts. Recent data on ultrafast phenomena from the recently established world class laser driven accelerators facilities in the US, France and Japan is reviewed.

There has not been a significant book covering the important field of radiation chemistry during the last 5 years. This timely book, which includes highlights of recent work, will appeal not only to the specialists working in the area but also to other researchers involved in related specialties.

• An Incomplete History of Radiation Chemistry (C D Jonah)
• An Overview of Solvated Electron: Recent Advances (M Mostafavi & I Lampre)
• The Structure and Dynamics of Solvated Electron (I A Shkrob)
• Instrumentation in Pulse Radiolysis (E Janata)
• Ultra-fast Pulse Radiolysis Methods (J Belloni et al.)
• A History of Pulse-Radiolysis Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity (PR-TRMC) Studies (J M Warman & M P de Haas)
• Infrared Spectroscopy and Radiation Chemistry (S Le Caër et al.)
• Chemical Processes in Heavy Ion Tracks (G Baldacchino & Y Katsumura)
• Radiolysis of Supercritical Water (M-Z Lin et al.)
• Pulse Radiolysis in Supercritical Krypton and Xenon Fluids (R Holroyd)
• Radiation-Induced Processes at Solid–Liquid Interfaces (M Jonsson)
• Radiolysis of Water Confined in Nanoporous Materials (R Musat et al.)
• Metal Clusters and Nanomaterials: Contribution of Radiation Chemistry (H Remita & S Remita)
• Radiation-Induced Oxidation of Substituted Benzenes: Structure-Reactivity Relationship (B S M Rao)
• Femtosecond Events in the Bimolecular Free Electron Transfer (O Brede & S Naumov)
• Chemistry of Sulfur-Centered Radicals (K Bobrowski)
• Radiolysis of Metalloproteins (D E Cabelli)
• Mechanisms of Radiation-Induced DNA Damage: Direct Effects (D Becker et al.)
• Radiation-Induced DNA Damage: Indirect Effects (C von Sonntag)
• Radiation Chemistry Applied to Antioxidant Research (K Indira Priyadarsini)