The Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, in publication since 1950, covers significant developments in the field of physical chemistry, including biophysical chemistry, chemical kinetics, colloids, electrochemistry, geochemistry and cosmochemistry, chemistry of atmosphere and climate, laser chemistry and ultrafast processes, the liquid state, magnetic resonance, physical organic chemistry, polymers and macromolecules, and more.
Theoretical calculations on undefected nanoscale materials predict impressive mechanical properties. In this review we summarize the status of experimental efforts to directly measure the fracture strengths of inorganic and carbon nanotubes and discuss possible explanations for the deviations between the predicted and observed values.
Martin Karplus, of Harvard University and the Université de Strasbourg; Michael Levitt, of the Stanford University School of Medicine; and Arieh Warshel, of the University of Southern California, received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."
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