Chemical reaction dynamics and relaxation phenomena in one component liquids, binary mixtures and electrolyte solutions

Abstract

Our work in India in recent years has focused primarily on the following subjects: (a) Solvation and orientational dynamics in polar and non-polar liquids, (b) Vibrational energy and phase relaxation in liquids and gases, (c) Dynamics of freezing and glass transition, in particular anomalous relaxation in viscous liquids, (d) Electron transfer reactions in polar liquids, (e) Polymer and protein folding, (f) Viscosity and solvent dynamics effects on chemical reactions in solution, (g) Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) by Forster energy mechanism in polymers in solution, (h) Transport processes in liquids, including study of electrical conductivity in dilute electrolyte solution, and (i) Chirality-driven pattern formation in monolayers and bilayers. In this article we briefly review some of our work, we emphasize on the physical aspects and the relation with experimental results.