Book Description

During the last few years there has been a growing body of work dealing with the dynamics and thermodynamics of molecular systems in spatial confinements. Currently investigators are studying molecular phenomena in a broad range of materials. These materials include porous glasses, polymer networks, micelles, microemulsions and zeolites to mention just a few. This symposium brings together researchers that have approached the study of confined molecular systems from many points of view. Our fundamental understanding of the scientific issues surrounding this field have benefited from the parallel contributions in both theoretical and experimental works. The availability of supercomputers has led to significant advances in treating dynamics and thermodynamic properties of many body systems as well as reaction kinetics. This coupled with studies which utilize scattering (light, small angle x-ray and neutron), nmr, optical probes (fluorescence, energy transfer and exciton dynamics), dielectric relaxation and electron microscopy has helped to unveil the richness of the molecular properties of confined systems.