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Table of Content
Contributors to Volume 161 ix
Preface to the Series xi
Structural Analysis by X-ray Intensity Angular Cross Correlations 1
Ruslan P. Kurta, Massimo Altarelli, and Ivan A. Vartanyants
Spin Relaxation in Phase Space 41
Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, and Serguey V. Titov
Diffusion in Crowded Solutions 277
George D. J. Phillies
Distribution Function Approach to the Stability of Fluid Phases 359
John J. Kozak, Jaroslaw Piasecki, and Piotr Szymczak
Coarse-Graining with the Relative Entropy 395
M. Scott Shell
Entropy Theory of Polymer Glass-Formation in Variable Spatial Dimension 443
Wen-Sheng Xu, Jack F. Douglas, and Karl F. Freed
Polyelectrolyte Complexation 499
Samanvaya Srivastava and Matthew V. Tirrell
Index 545
About the author
STUART A. RICE, Ph D, received his bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn college and his master’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University. He was a junior fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957, where he is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.
AARON R. DINNER, Ph D, received his bachelor’s degree and doctorate from Harvard University, after which he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in 2003.