The introduction to the first of these two volumes on Charged Gels
and Membranes has recalled already that both were issued from the
second Advanced Study Institute of Forges les Eaux, of which the
co-directors were Professors G. E. Boyd and K. S. Spiegler.
However, it seems necessary to add some further remarks for the
eventual readers of this one volume only or for those of all four
which now constitute the series. * One discovers that each volume
is precisely linked to the next; and the total con tains a large
number of the very fundamental steps by which macromolecular
physical chemistry finds itself simultaneously at thefronNers of
application and of biology. One often wonders how this is possible.
Research has been the best means of unders anding the microscopic
elements oflife. Biomimetic phenomena or bioanalogue compounds in
their turn have led to innumerable practical realisations. On one
hand, the notion of 'vital force' receded and is disap pearing due
to repetitive total and asymmetric synthesis* of always larger, and
more complex, biological molecules. On the other hand discoveries
of inter-relations in physical chemistry disengage the analogies
between living and non-living systems: the interrelations between
phenomena, between phenomena and structures or the appear ance of
these structures under the influence of intermolecular forces or of
gradients of more statistical forces."
General
| Imprint: |
Springer
|
| Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
| Series: |
Charged and Reactive Polymers, 4 |
| Release date: |
November 2011 |
| First published: |
1976 |
| Editors: |
E. Selegny
|
| Dimensions: |
244 x 170 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
255 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-9401014694 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Chemistry >
Organic chemistry >
General
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| LSN: |
9401014698 |
| Barcode: |
9789401014694 |
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