Data Center
Disseminating the accumulated and evaluated knowledge database as a service to the scientific community
The Radiation Chemistry Data Center (RCDC), which was previously hosted at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, provided access to critically-evaluated numerical chemical property data such as reaction rates, reduction potentials, and radiation chemical yields abstracted from the primary radiation chemistry and quantitative photochemistry literature.
The RCDC provided key services to the radiation chemistry community on two distinct but inter-related fronts. The original purpose was to gather, compile, and evaluate key radiation chemical data such as product yields, reaction rates, reduction potentials etc. from a far-flung literature. To support this data compilation, a bibliographic database was established at Notre Dame and, somewhat later, biweekly updates were published from the bibliographic resource as an awareness service to the community. Operations were subsequently extended to cover the literature on quantitative photochemistry, culminating in the publication of the Handbook of Photochemistry (2nd edition, Marcel Dekker) in 1993.
In recent years, the bibliographic component of the RCDC activity was largely superseded by the widespread availability of many modern electronic, literature-search products. The RCDC also transitioned from the data accumulation phase of the RCDC operation. Access to much of the solution kinetic data is available through NIST.