High Pressure Effects in Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science: (Volumes 208-209 Defect and Diffusion Forum)

The aim of the High Pressure School (HPS) is to provide a platform where both young and experienced researchers can meet and exchange their experiences in high-pressure research and techniques. Since 1996, four schools have been held in Warsaw and the tradition has developed of combining the topic of high pressure techniques with workshops which are related to the rapidly developing fields of high pressure science and technology: chemistry, biology and materials science; with particular attention being paid to nanostructured materials. The interaction of specialists in various fields, and the consequent exchange of their knowledge is expected to be fruitful in approaching a full understanding of pressure effects on molecules, crystallites and biological cells, and of the associated changes in the properties and behaviours of macroscopic systems.

Table of Contents:
Application of Electron Spin Resonance in Biophysics: from Rapid Mixing Stopped-Flow to High-Hydrostatic Pressure ESR Intermolecular Interactions of Proteins under Pressure. Aggregation, Dissociation, Chaperoning Potentialities in High Pressure Bioscience Pressure Effects on the Structure and Phase Behaviour of Phospholipid-Gramicidin Bilayers Pressure-Temperature Effects on Proteins: Unfolding, Aggregation and Fibrillogenesis Pharmaceuticals Perspectives of High Pressure: A Soft Tool for Sterilization of Fragile Drugs Change of Activity of Blood Serum Transferases after High Hydrostatic Pressure Treatment Effect of High Hydrostatic Pressure on the Ability of Neutrophils to Phagocytosis Inactivation of Bacteria at High Pressure Influence of UHP Treatment on Quality of Ham The Apple Juices Preserved by High Pressure Treatment at Moderate Temperature and Pasteurisation. Comparative Quality Assessment How High Pressures can be Involved in Chemical Bonding Pressure Effects in Organic Chemistry Thermodynamics of the Metal-Hydrogen Systems in DAC High Pressure EPR Studies of Nickel Complexes Polymerization at High Pressure of Dimethyl Acetylene: Raman Microscopy, Vibrational Analysis, Calculation of Force Constants and Internal Coordinates Pressure as a Tool to Investigate Vibrational Fermi Resonance in Molecular Liquids: Study of Liquid Methanol up to 20 kbar by Raman Microscopy Pressure-Induced Transformations of Low-Energy Excitations in a Polymer Glass Studied by Spectral Hole Burning Pressure Solvation of Photosynthetic Pigments Bulk Nanostructured Materials Produced by Severe Plastic Deformation under High Pressure Intermetallic Growth under High Hydrostatic Pressures Novel Carbon Materials: Possibility of Shock-Wave Synthesis Phase Transformation in Nanocrystals under Pressure X-Ray Characterization of Nanostructured Materials Influence of High Pressure on the Polytype Structure of Nanocrystalline GaN On the Relation between Interface Energy and Free Volume Computer Study of the Severe Shear Deformations of Solids under High Pressure High Pressure Dependence of the Discontinuous Ordering (DO) Reaction in the Fe – 50% at. Co Alloy Influence of Long-Ordering Parameter and Boron Microalloying on Mechanical Properties of Nanocrystalline Intermetallic Compound Ni3Al Nanostructure Formation in Copper Subjected to High Pressure Torsion Pressure Influence on Solid Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys after Severe Plastic Deformation Formation of Submicrocrystalline Structure in Titanium and its Alloy under Severe Plastic Deformation A First-Order Phase Transformation between Amorphous Phases in a Zn-Sb Alloy under High Pressures Low Dimensionality Magnetism in New Layered Oxides: the Phyllosiloxides High Pressure Treatment of Semiconductor-Metal Heterophase Structures Nanostructured Metals Transformation Study by Means of Electroactive Polymer Comparative Studies of Conductivity of Graphite and Fullerene at High Pressure Conductivity of Ammonium Halides NH4Cl and NH4F at Pressures up to 50 Gpa Magnetoresistance and Thermoelectric Power of Semiconductors at Pressures up to 30 GPa High-Pressure NMR Spectroscopy: Some General Aspects and Applications Application of the AC Impedance Spectroscopy at High Pressures: Electrophysical Properties of Sulfur A Standard Diamond-Anvil Cell Adapted for Work on Biological Molecules and Soft Solids Electrical Characteristics of NaCl at Frequencies of 1-100 kHz at Superhigh Pressures. Application of an Impedance Spectroscopy Influence of High Hydrostatic Pressure up to 2.5 GPa on the Resistance of Lanthanum-Manganese Samples Metal Plasticity during the Twist Extrusion Solid State Transitions Investigations in DAC by Spectroscopy Methods Structural Refinements on Restricted Intensity Data Collected in High-Pressure Diffraction Experiments