Tamura, Rui <br/><br/>
Chemical Symmetry Breaking 

 - Basel, Switzerland  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2021 
 - 1 electronic resource (256 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-0365-1131-3 9783036511306 9783036511313 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-0365-1131-3  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Research & information: general
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>amplification of chirality dynamic crystallization Diels–Alder reaction absolute asymmetric synthesis conglomerate racemization attrition-enhanced deracemization Viedma ripening reversible reaction enantiomorphic crystal polymorphism off-shell quantum field space-like momentum dressed photon micro-macro duality Clebsch dual field Majorana fermion the cosmological term Weyl tensor dark energy dark matter photomechanical crystal right–left symmetry breaking chiral symmetry breaking dissipative structure energy conversion mechanical work self-oscillation collective dynamics autonomous motion self-replication autocatalysis molecular motor molecular robot amorphous-to-crystal phase transformation detection of real-time symmetry breaking mechanofluorochromism fluorescence spectroscopy liquid-like cluster evaporative crystallization quartz crystal microbalance two-step nucleation model chiral circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) magnetic circularly polarized luminescence (MCPL) spontaneous resolution chirality deracemization preferential enrichment thermodynamics phase diagrams kinetics symmetry breaking ferroelectricity antiferrolelectricity subphases resonant X-ray scattering vapochromism fluorescence macrocycles inclusion crystals host–guest chemistry spin symmetry breaking magnetic liquid crystals magneto-LC effect nitroxide radicals superparamagnetic domain spin glass state elastic organic crystals mechanical deformation π-conjugated molecules photoluminescence deformation-induced photoluminescence changes biomolecular handedness circular dichroism circularly polarized luminescence non-equilibrium colloid conjugated polymer