Mössbauer Spectroscopy, 2003 Proceedings of the Fifth Seeheim Workshop, held in Seeheim, Germany, 21–25 May 2002

Following the long-standing tradition of the Seeheim-Workshops on Mössbauer Spectroscopy, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1994 always held in the same traditional place of the Lufthansa Training Center in Seeheim/Germany, the 5^th workshop took place in 2002. The main topics covered are:

-new technical developments such as the techniques of Nuclear Inelastic Scattering (NIS) and Nuclear Forward Scattering (NFS) of Synchrotron Radiation and their applications in studying lattice dynamics, magnetism and surface phenomena;
-investigations of molecular structural and bonding properties in biomolecules and coordination compounds;
-problems related to geochemistry and earth sciences;
-applications of Mössbauer spectroscopy in molecular magnetism and photomagnetism.

The book will serve as a source of great actuality to physicists, chemists and geoscientists employing the Mössbauer effect and other hyperfine interaction techniques to explore solid state properties of bulk materials as well as surface phenomena.

Vibrational Dynamics Studies by Nuclear Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering.- Hyperfine Spectroscopy with Nuclear Resonant Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation.- Imaging the Magnetic Structure of Thin Films and Nanoparticles.- Recent Developments in Synchrotron Mossbauer Reflectometry.- Magnetic Properties of Metallic Multilayered Systems.- Atomic Vibrational Dynamics of Thin Films Studied by Nuclear Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering: Amorphous Tb1.xFex Alloys.- Phonons in Confinement and the Boson Peak Using Nuclear Inelastic Absorption.- ?-Ray Holography — Three-Dimensional Imaging of a Local Atomic Structure.- Diffusion Studies with Synchrotron Radiation and with Neutron Scattering.- High-Pressure Studies of Magnetism and Lattice Dynamics by Nuclear Resonant Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation.- High-Pressure Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Perovskite Iron Oxides.- Thin Films Made Fast and Modified Fast.- Influence of the Interfaces on Magnetic Properties of Fe/Ag and Fe/Cu Multilayers Prepared by Sputtering.- Magnetic Phases in Alloys and Nanostructured Systems.- Magnetic and Structural Features of Rare Earth Intermetallic Compounds as Seen by 57Fe Mössbauer Probe.- Magnetism in FeCl2 at High Pressures.- Electronic and Molecular Structure Studies of a (Bio)Inorganic Complex — A Multi-Technique Approach.- Myoglobin and Related Biomolecular Systems Studied with Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Nuclear Forward Scattering.- Mössbauer Spectroscopy in the Energy and in the Time Domain, a Crucial Tool for the Investigation of Protein Dynamics.- Exchange-Driven Magnetic Anomalies in Fe-Zr-B-Based-Nanocomposites.- Investigations on Structure and Transformation of Some Organometallic Compounds in Solution.- Quantification of Fe2+/Fe3+ by Electron Microprobe Analysis — NewDevelopments.- Mean-Square Amplitudes of Vibration and Anisotropic Motion of Metal Atoms in Iron Organometallics.- Degradation of the Giant Magnetoresistance in Fe/Cr Multilayers Due to Ar-Ion Beam Mixing.- Magnetic Relaxation and Its Relation to Magnetoresistance in FeCr2S4 Spinel.- 57Fe Mössbauer Studies of Sr2-xCaxFeReO6 Double Perovskite Compounds.- Surface and Bulk Crystallization of Fe61Co21Nb3B15 Alloy.- Effect of Precipitation Temperature and Number of Iron Atoms per Molecule on the Structure of Hydrated Iron(III) Oxyhydroxide Ferritin Cores Synthesised in vitro.- Mössbauer Spectroscopy in the Geosciences: Highlights and Perspectives.- Interplay of Antiferromagnetic Coupling and Spin Crossover in Dinuclear Iron(II) Complexes.- Photoswitching of Nitroprussides.- Intracluster and Intercluster Interactions in Nanostructures.- Magnetic Properties of Nanoparticles of Antiferromagnetic Materials.- An Interesting Spin-State Transition for [Fe(PPIX)OH] Induced by High Pressure in a Diamond Anvil Cell.- Can Mössbauer Spectroscopy Reveal the Origin of Magnetic Soil in Denmark?.- The Miniaturized Mössbauer Spectrometer MIMOS II for Extraterrestrial and Outdoor Terrestrial Applications: A Status Report.- Industrial Applications of Mossbauer Spectroscopy.