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Cover Image, Volume 118, Issue 15
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of quantum chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-461X
pISSN - 0020-7608
DOI - 10.1002/qua.25702
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , computer science , citation , theoretical physics , theoretical computer science , physics , world wide web , mechanical engineering , engineering
In the cover article e25602, Ramon Carbó‐Dorca discusses the thermal voltage concept. This idea, used for a long time in solid state lore, is employed to develop a general formalism, tending to provide the so‐called quantitative structure‐properties relations (QSPR) from a quantum theoretical point of view. In this way, thermal voltage permits first to define a homothetic scaling of quantum electronic density functions. Three application examples in the domain of chirality, toxicity and biological activity are provided. Original illustration by Pep Camps (Painter from Girona). (DOI: 10.1002/qua.25602 )