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This book provides innovative chapters on the growth of
educational, scientific, and industrial research activities among
chemists, biologists, and polymer and chemical engineers and
provides a medium for mutual communication between international
academia and the industry. It presents significant research and
reviews reporting new methodologies and important applications in
the fields of industrial chemistry, industrial polymers and
biotechnology as well as includes the latest coverage of chemical
databases and the development of new computational methods and
efficient algorithms for chemical software and polymer engineering.
This new volume presents leading-edge research in the rapidly
changing and evolving field of polymer science as well as on
chemical processing. The topics in the book reflect the diversity
of research advances in the production and application of modern
polymeric materials and related areas, focusing on the preparation,
characterization, and applications of polymers. Also covered are
various manufacturing techniques. The book will help to fill the
gap between theory and practice in industry.
This volume presents the various categories of high performance
materials and their composites and provides up-to-date synthesis
details, properties, characterization, and applications for such
systems to give readers and users better information to select the
required material. The volume provides the following features: *
Includes a wide range of high performance and engineering materials
* Details the synthesis and properties of each of new materials *
Presents practical industrial applications * Contains material
written by some of the world's most well-known and respected
experts in the field
This book presents some fascinating phenomena associated with the
remarkable features of high performance polymers and also provides
an update on applications of modern polymers. It offers new
research on structure-property relationships, synthesis, and
purification, and potential applications of high performance
polymers. The collection of topics in this book reflects the
diversity of recent advances in modern polymers with a broad
perspective that will be useful for scientists as well as for
graduate students and engineers. The book helps to fill the gap
between theory and practice. It explains the major concepts of new
advances in high performance polymers and their applications in a
friendly, easy-to-understand manner. The book opens with a
presentation of classical models, moving on to increasingly more
complex quantum mechanical and dynamical theories. Coverage and
examples are drawn from modern polymers.
The aim of this book is to provide both a rigorous view and a more
practical, understandable view of industrial chemistry and
biochemical physics. This book is geared toward readers with both
direct and lateral interest in the discipline. This volume is
structured into different parts devoted to industrial chemistry and
biochemical physics and their applications. Every section of the
book has been expanded, where relevant, to take account of
significant new discoveries and realizations of the importance of
key concepts. Furthermore, emphases are placed on the underlying
fundamentals and on acquisition of a broad and comprehensive grasp
of the field as a whole. With contributions from experts from both
the industry and academia, this book presents the latest
developments in the identified areas. This book incorporates
appropriate case studies, explanatory notes, and schematics for
more clarity and better understanding. This new book: * Highlights
some important areas of current interest in biochemical physics and
chemical processes * Focuses on topics with more advanced methods *
Emphasizes precise mathematical development and actual experimental
details * Analyzes theories to formulate and prove the
physicochemical principles * Provides an up-to-date and thorough
exposition of the present state of the art of complex materials
Topics include: * Photoelectrochemical properties of films of
extra-coordinated tetrapyrrole compounds and their relationship
with the quantum chemical parameters of the molecules *
Bio-structural energy criteria of functional states in normal and
pathological conditions * The ozone resistance of covulcanizates
butadiene-nitrile rubbers with chlorinated ethylene-propylene-diene
elastomers * Ways of regulation of release of medicinal substances
from chitosan films * Environmental durability of powder polyester
paint coatings * Ozone decomposition * Design and synthesis of its
derivative with enhanced potential to scavenge hypochlorite radical
scavenging capacity of n-(2-mercapto-2-methylpropionyl)-L-cysteine
* Bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) as a biodegradable polymer for
biomedicine * Designing, analysis, and industrial use of the
dynamic spray scrubber * Magnetic properties of organic paramagnet
* The effect of antioxidant drug mexidol on bioenergetic processes
and nitric oxide formation in the animal tissues
This book provides innovative chapters on the growth of
educational, scientific, and industrial research activities among
chemists, biologists, and polymer and chemical engineers and
provides a medium for mutual communication between international
academia and the industry. It presents significant research and
reviews reporting new methodologies and important applications in
the fields of industrial chemistry, industrial polymers and
biotechnology as well as includes the latest coverage of chemical
databases and the development of new computational methods and
efficient algorithms for chemical software and polymer engineering.
This new volume presents leading-edge research in the rapidly
changing and evolving field of polymer science as well as on
chemical processing. The topics in the book reflect the diversity
of research advances in the production and application of modern
polymeric materials and related areas, focusing on the preparation,
characterization, and applications of polymers. Also covered are
various manufacturing techniques. The book will help to fill the
gap between theory and practice in industry.
First published in 1992, this volume recognises that it is not
unusual, when practising librarianship, to come across small to
medium collections within the library, which, because they are
different from the main collection, are outside the librarian's
experience or are a new type of material not properly managed or
exploited. Therefore this volume contains chapters on a range of
materials which are united by a certain rarity in the experience of
most librarians. It is aimed at those who need to know how to
progress from scratch with a collection, but not necessarily to
take it into complete specialization. There is information about
characteristics of each type of material as well as guidance for
their management. Lists of further reading are provided and a note
of some important collections.
First published in 1992, this volume recognises that it is not
unusual, when practising librarianship, to come across small to
medium collections within the library, which, because they are
different from the main collection, are outside the librarian's
experience or are a new type of material not properly managed or
exploited. Therefore this volume contains chapters on a range of
materials which are united by a certain rarity in the experience of
most librarians. It is aimed at those who need to know how to
progress from scratch with a collection, but not necessarily to
take it into complete specialization. There is information about
characteristics of each type of material as well as guidance for
their management. Lists of further reading are provided and a note
of some important collections.
This book presents some fascinating phenomena associated with the
remarkable features of high performance polymers and also provides
an update on applications of modern polymers. It offers new
research on structure-property relationships, synthesis, and
purification, and potential applications of high performance
polymers. The collection of topics in this book reflects the
diversity of recent advances in modern polymers with a broad
perspective that will be useful for scientists as well as for
graduate students and engineers. The book helps to fill the gap
between theory and practice. It explains the major concepts of new
advances in high performance polymers and their applications in a
friendly, easy-to-understand manner. The book opens with a
presentation of classical models, moving on to increasingly more
complex quantum mechanical and dynamical theories. Coverage and
examples are drawn from modern polymers.
This volume presents the various categories of high performance
materials and their composites and provides up-to-date synthesis
details, properties, characterization, and applications for such
systems to give readers and users better information to select the
required material. The volume provides the following features: *
Includes a wide range of high performance and engineering materials
* Details the synthesis and properties of each of new materials *
Presents practical industrial applications * Contains material
written by some of the world's most well-known and respected
experts in the field
The aim of this book is to provide both a rigorous view and a more
practical, understandable view of industrial chemistry and
biochemical physics. This book is geared toward readers with both
direct and lateral interest in the discipline. This volume is
structured into different parts devoted to industrial chemistry and
biochemical physics and their applications. Every section of the
book has been expanded, where relevant, to take account of
significant new discoveries and realizations of the importance of
key concepts. Furthermore, emphases are placed on the underlying
fundamentals and on acquisition of a broad and comprehensive grasp
of the field as a whole. With contributions from experts from both
the industry and academia, this book presents the latest
developments in the identified areas. This book incorporates
appropriate case studies, explanatory notes, and schematics for
more clarity and better understanding. This new book: * Highlights
some important areas of current interest in biochemical physics and
chemical processes * Focuses on topics with more advanced methods *
Emphasizes precise mathematical development and actual experimental
details * Analyzes theories to formulate and prove the
physicochemical principles * Provides an up-to-date and thorough
exposition of the present state of the art of complex materials
Topics include: * Photoelectrochemical properties of films of
extra-coordinated tetrapyrrole compounds and their relationship
with the quantum chemical parameters of the molecules *
Bio-structural energy criteria of functional states in normal and
pathological conditions * The ozone resistance of covulcanizates
butadiene-nitrile rubbers with chlorinated ethylene-propylene-diene
elastomers * Ways of regulation of release of medicinal substances
from chitosan films * Environmental durability of powder polyester
paint coatings * Ozone decomposition * Design and synthesis of its
derivative with enhanced potential to scavenge hypochlorite radical
scavenging capacity of n-(2-mercapto-2-methylpropionyl)-L-cysteine
* Bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) as a biodegradable polymer for
biomedicine * Designing, analysis, and industrial use of the
dynamic spray scrubber * Magnetic properties of organic paramagnet
* The effect of antioxidant drug mexidol on bioenergetic processes
and nitric oxide formation in the animal tissues
Flammability has been recognized as an increasingly important
social and scientific problem. Fire statistics in the United States
(Report on the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control,
"America Burning," 1973) emphasized the vast devastation to life
and property-12,000 lives lost annually due to fire and these
deaths are usually caused by inhaling smoke or toxic gases; 300,000
fire injuries; 11. 4 billion dollars in fire cost of which 2. 7
billion dollars is related to property loss; a billion dollars to
burn injury treatment; and 3. 3 billion dollars in productivity
loss. It is obvious that much human and economic misery can be
attributed to fire situations. In relation to this, polymer
flammability has been recognized as an increasingly important
social and scientific problem. The development of flame-retardant
polymeric materials is a current example where the initiative for
major scientific and technological developments is motivated by
sociological pressure and legisla tion. This is part of the
important trend toward a safer environment and sets a pattern for
future example. Flame retardancy deals with our basic everyday life
situations-housing, work areas, transportation, clothing and so
forth the "macroenvironment" capsule within which "homosapiens"
live. As a result, flame-retardant polymers are now emerging as a
specific class of materials leading to new and diversified
scientific and technological ventures."
NB: Due to the inadvertent assignment of a previously used ISBN,
this book was originally published under an incorrect identifying
number. The book has now been given its own unique ISBN and is
otherwise identical in every way to the original publication.
Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to
the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food
production. The primary historic solution developed over the last
several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up
enough food to feed everyone would take a significant amount of
time and would increase the price of food, killing additional
people due to inadequate global access to affordable food. Humanity
is far from doomed, however, in these situations - there are
solutions. This book provides an order of magnitude technical
analysis comparing caloric requirements of all humans for five
years with conversion of existing vegetation and fossil fuels to
edible food. It presents mechanisms for global-scale conversion
including: natural gas-digesting bacteria, extracting food from
leaves, and conversion of fiber by enzymes, mushroom or bacteria
growth, or a two-step process involving partial decomposition of
fiber by fungi and/or bacteria and feeding them to animals such as
beetles, ruminants (cows, deer, etc), rats and chickens. It
includes an analysis to determine the ramp rates for each option
and the results show that careful planning and global cooperation
could ensure the bulk of humanity and biodiversity could be
maintained in even in the most extreme circumstances.
"Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce
Scientific Research Costs" details the development of the free and
open-source hardware revolution. The combination of open-source 3D
printing and microcontrollers running on free software enables
scientists, engineers, and lab personnel in every discipline to
develop powerful research tools at unprecedented low costs. After
reading "Open-Source Lab," you will be able to: Lower equipment
costs by making your own hardwareBuild open-source hardware for
scientific researchActively participate in a community in which
scientific results are more easily replicated and cited
Numerous examples of technologies and the open-source user and
developer communities that support themInstructions on how to take
advantage of digital design sharingExplanations of Arduinos and
RepRaps for scientific useA detailed guide to open-source hardware
licenses and basic principles of intellectual property
Termites are of great interest to both entomologists and those
concerned with pest management. On the one hand their complex
social systems and nest building make them fascinating for students
of insect behaviour, while on the other they are major pests of
crops and buildings in the tropics and subtropics. This book
provides a general scientific introduction to the termites,
including their biology, behaviour, pest status and control.
Commonly used ecological and laboratory techniques are described in
appendices. There has been no such general book published for many
years and so this title will fill a definite gap in the market. It
is aimed at advanced students of entomology and pest management, as
well as professionals concerned with urban and agricultural pest
control.
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