Meeting the needs of the scientific community, these two must-have volumes are the only work to provide a thorough overview of all the important methods currently used in physical chemistry. The work bridges the gap between standard textbooks and review articles, covering a large number of methods, as well as the motivation behind their use. The first volume deals with the gas and condensed phase, while volume two looks at interfaces and biomolecules and materials. A uniform approach is adopted throughout, while the critical comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each method makes this a valuable reference for physical chemists and other scientists working with these techniques. In short, these two volumes deserve a place in every chemistry library, whether academic or industrial.

VOLUME I GAS-PHASE Manipulation of molecules High resolution infrared spectroscopy Laser ionisation spectroscopy Laser spectroscopy for gas-phase kinetics Mass spectrometry for ion chemistry CONDENSED-PHASE Nuclear magnetic resonance Electron spin resonance Broadband conductivity spectroscopy X-ray absorption spectroscopy X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction Small-angle scattering with neutrons and X-rays Perturbed angular correlation Mößbauer spectroscopy VOLUME II INTERFACES Diffuse-Reflection-Infrared-FT-Spectroscopy Raman spectroscopy Photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy Secondary ion mass spectrometry Quartz microbalance Scanning tunneling microscopy BIOMOLECULES AND MATERIALS Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopies THz spectroscopy Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy Luminescence Nanomechanical methods Magnetometry Transient isotopic kinetic techniques High resolution electron microscopy