Preface
The idea of this book originated in some discussions we carried out during one
of the conference we had the pleasure to organize, namely XIVth International
Conference on Molecular Spectroscopy, Kraków-Białka Tatrzańska, Poland in
2017, which was the last conference in a series. The history of these conferences
spans over 20 years. In 1991, Prof. Henryk Ratajczak from Wroclaw University,
Poland, the originator of the idea, organized the first one in a series (as a national
conference with international participation) with the intention to have the following
ones every two years. Similar conferences devoted to Vibrational Spectroscopy in
Materials Science were initiated in 1996 by Prof. Mirosław Handke from AGH
University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. For a few years, these
conferences were organized independently and in 2009 were merged into a single
one, organized every two years, alternately by University of Wrocław and AGH
University of Science and Technology. The last conference was organized in 2017
in Białka Tatrzańska and gathered above three hundred participants (almost a third
from abroad) and was devoted to practical application of various spectroscopic
methods to study different types of materials and showed that modern spectroscopy
is an invaluable tool in recent scientific endeavor to understand the structure and
properties of various natural and synthetic materials as well as to create new or to
modify existing ones in order to obtain better suited (functionalized) materials
required by modern industry.
There are a lot of books devoted to various issues related to either spectroscopic
methods themselves or their use in the characterization of diverse classes of
materials exhibiting often very different properties. However, the books containing
comprehensive, up-to-date description of theory, experimentation, and simultaneous use of different spectroscopic methods to study the properties of a given type of
materials, provided by leading specialists in the field for various classes of materials
are still rare and sought after.
This book is intended to provide such comprehensive description of materials
characterization by means of a wide spectrum of modern spectroscopic methods
and is aimed at scientists interested in theory and practical application of various
spectroscopic methods in their work. It starts with a short introduction to theoretical
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The idea of this book originated in some discussions we carried out during one
of the conference we had the pleasure to organize, namely XIVth International
Conference on Molecular Spectroscopy, Kraków-Białka Tatrzańska, Poland in
2017, which was the last conference in a series. The history of these conferences
spans over 20 years. In 1991, Prof. Henryk Ratajczak from Wroclaw University,
Poland, the originator of the idea, organized the first one in a series (as a national
conference with international participation) with the intention to have the following
ones every two years. Similar conferences devoted to Vibrational Spectroscopy in
Materials Science were initiated in 1996 by Prof. Mirosław Handke from AGH
University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. For a few years, these
conferences were organized independently and in 2009 were merged into a single
one, organized every two years, alternately by University of Wrocław and AGH
University of Science and Technology. The last conference was organized in 2017
in Białka Tatrzańska and gathered above three hundred participants (almost a third
from abroad) and was devoted to practical application of various spectroscopic
methods to study different types of materials and showed that modern spectroscopy
is an invaluable tool in recent scientific endeavor to understand the structure and
properties of various natural and synthetic materials as well as to create new or to
modify existing ones in order to obtain better suited (functionalized) materials
required by modern industry.
There are a lot of books devoted to various issues related to either spectroscopic
methods themselves or their use in the characterization of diverse classes of
materials exhibiting often very different properties. However, the books containing
comprehensive, up-to-date description of theory, experimentation, and simultaneous use of different spectroscopic methods to study the properties of a given type of
materials, provided by leading specialists in the field for various classes of materials
are still rare and sought after.
This book is intended to provide such comprehensive description of materials
characterization by means of a wide spectrum of modern spectroscopic methods
and is aimed at scientists interested in theory and practical application of various
spectroscopic methods in their work. It starts with a short introduction to theoretical
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