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Contents
Preface by J. M. T. Thom pson page vii
Atoms and molecules in motion
1 Laser snapshots of molecular motions 1
Gareth Roberts
12 Enzymology takes a quantum leap forward 21
Michael J. Sutcliffe and N igel S. Scrutton
New processes and materials
13 World champion chemists: people versus computers 43
Jonathan M. Goodm an
14 Chemistry on the inside: green chemistry in mesoporous
materials 59
Duncan J. Macquarrie
15 Diamond thin films: a twenty-first century material 75
Paul W. May
Biological growth and form
16 The secret of Nature’s microscopic patterns 95
Alan R. Hem sley and Peter C. Griffiths
17 Skeletal structure: synthesis of mechanics and cell biology 113
Marjolein C. H. van der Meulen and Patrick J. Prendergast
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