This is an important textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in structural biology, chemistry, biochemistry, biology and medicine. Written by a team of leading scientists in the field, it covers all the essential aspects of proteins, nucleic acids and lipids, including the rise and fall of proteins, membranes and gradients, the structural biology of cells, and evolution — the comparative structural biology. The focus is on interesting and relevant molecular structures as well as central biology.This comprehensive volume is richly illustrated with more than 200 color figures. So far, there has been a lack of comprehensive textbooks on structural biology that are up to date; this book is written to fill the gap. An accompanying CD contains high-resolution images that can be projected in a classroom.

This proceedings volume is a collection of papers dealing with the applications of spallation neutron sources to pure science, applied science and defense programs. The topics, ranging from accelerator technology to applications in materials science and neutrino physics, are covered by experts in their respective fields.

This text examines the application of positron beams to studies of solids and surfaces with profiles for an increasing array of materials. It presents the progress made in areas of defect profiling, including improvements in theoretical modelling.

Positron Studies of Condensed Matter highlights some of the outstanding recent achievements from the use of positron annihilation in solid state physics and outlines possible future trends. Current research is reviewed in authoritative articles by some of the leading practitioners in the field. Important new results in the study of electron momentum densities, Compton scattering and high-temperature superconductors are considered in detail, and the currently developing area of gas-defect interactions is also reviewed. The latest work on applications of poistron microbeams is also included. This volume contains the invited papers and selected contributed papers from the International Workshop on Positron Annihilation in Condensed Matter, held in Munich in August 1988. The emphasis of the meeting was on the most significant results of recent years in this constantly expanding field. Presenting the most important up-to-date data on the subject, Positron Studies of Condensed Matter is an important reference volume for all workers in positron physics, solid state physics, metallurgy and materials science, and will be useful to final-year undergraduates studying solid state physics.