The time has come for an assessment of the most important techniques for the fabrication of advanced catalysts. Catalyst production alone is more than a billion dollar business each year, and the product value of chemical processes using advanced catalysts is a few trillion dollars annually. This book seeks to provide a modern, materials science account of the best and most current techniques for the synthesis of advanced catalytic materials.
Until now, there has been no single book which contains a definitive and comprehensive description of the important technologies for catalyst synthesis within the context of modern materials science. Academic researchers both in the catalytic sciences and materials sciences must have the best synthesis technologies available to accomplish the preparation of solid-state materials of specific structure and morphology. Althugh the emphasis is on new synthetic techniques for catalytic applications, the bookpresents all of the important technologies for the fabrication of electronic and structural ceramics, and superconductors.
Key Features
* Novel Techniques for Advanced Materials
* Nanostructured Materials Synthesis
* Mesoporous Molecular Sieves
* Pillared Clays
* Heteropoly Acids
* Nanostructured Supported Metal Catalysts
* Nanostructured Metal Oxide Catalysts and Materials
* Nanostructured Zeolite Materials
* Vapor Phase Materials Synthesis
* Sonochemical Materials Synthesis
* Aerosol Methods of Catalyst Synthesis
* Hydrodynamic Cavitational Techniques for Catalyst and Materials Synthesis
* Novel Sol-Gel Methods for Catalyst Synthesis
* Supercritical Methods for Materials Synthesis
* Liquid Crystal Techniques for Mesoporous Materials
* Micelle Techniques for Nanostructured Catalyst Preparation
* Fluidized Bed Techniques in Chemical Vapor Deposition
* Flame Methods of Advanced Catalyst Synthesis

One of the most striking development of the last decades in the study of minimal surfaces, constant mean surfaces and harmonic maps is the discovery that many classical problems in differential geometry - including these examples - are actually integrable systems. This theory grew up mainly after the important discovery of the properties of the Korteweg-de Vries equation in the sixties. After C. Gardner, J. Greene, M. Kruskal et R. Miura 44] showed that this equation could be solved using the inverse scattering method and P. Lax 62] reinterpreted this method by his famous equation, many other deep observations have been made during the seventies, mainly by the Russian and the Japanese schools. In particular this theory was shown to be strongly connected with methods from algebraic geom etry (S. Novikov, V. B. Matveev, LM. Krichever. . . ), loop techniques (M. Adler, B. Kostant, W. W. Symes, M. J. Ablowitz . . . ) and Grassmannian manifolds in Hilbert spaces (M. Sato . . . ). Approximatively during the same period, the twist or theory of R. Penrose, built independentely, was applied successfully by R. Penrose and R. S. Ward for constructing self-dual Yang-Mills connections and four-dimensional self-dual manifolds using complex geometry methods. Then in the eighties it became clear that all these methods share the same roots and that other instances of integrable systems should exist, in particular in differential ge ometry. This led K."

Michael R. Moser arbeitet nicht nur als Rechtsanwalt, sondern auch als Mediator und Coach. Da liegt es auf der Hand, dass er sich fur seine Mitmenschen interessiert und vor allem fur die Interaktion zwischen ihnen. Wie verhalten sich Menschen, wenn sie ins Ausland reisen? Warum gibt es im Urlaub gern mal Streit? Wie geht es zu bei einem politischen Beauty Contest," also einer Bundestags-Kandidatenkur im Wahlkreis? Was passiert, wenn Burger innovative Ideen haben und sich anschicken, diese in die Tat umzusetzen? Was geht uns verloren, wenn wir keine Briefe mehr mit der Hand schreiben, sondern nur noch elektronisch kommunizieren? Uber diese und viele andere Fragen denkt Michael Moser gern nach und hat seine ganz personlichen Gedanken und Eindrucke aufgeschrieben. Viele davon hat er uber die Zeit reifen lassen. Im Laufe der letzten zehn Jahre ist auf diese Weise eine kleine Sammlung von Beobachtungen und Reflexionen entstanden - Blitzlichter," wie der Autor sie nennt. Mosers Streifzuge durch Alltag, Beruf und Politik sind oft witzig, immer nachdenklich und manchmal auch ein wenig zornig. Die Chance ist gar nicht so klein, dass das, was den Autor umtreibt, auch viele Leserinnen und Leser schon einmal beruhrt hat.