Chemie

Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats

The main aim of the book is to perform a critical assessment of the existing knowledge of chemical threats to environmental security with special reference to the prevention of chemical releases, ...

Free Energy Calculations

<P>This volume offers a coherent account of the concepts that underlie different approaches devised for the determination of free energies. It provides insight into the theoretical and compu...

Viruses in Foods

<P>This is the first book to focus entirely on viruses in foods. It collates information on the occurrence, detection, transmission, and epidemiology of viruses in various foods. Although me...

Light-Associated Reactions of Synthetic Polymers

A. Ravve

<P>This book combines theoretical explanations of the reactions of light and polymeric materials with development of light responsive polymeric materials for various practical applications. ...

Organic Chemistry of Explosives

Jai Prakash Agrawal / Robert Hodgson

<i>Organic Chemistry of Explosives</i> is the first text to bring together the essential methods and routes used for the synthesis of organic explosives in a single volume. <p>...

Process Dynamics and Control

Brian Roffel / Ben Betlem

Offering a different approach to other textbooks in the area, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the subject divided in three broad parts. The first part deals with building physical mod...

Electrokinetic Chromatography

This book offers a thorough theoretical description of the method, an overview on the current status of the various forms of electrokinetic capillary chromatography, plus a look forward into futur...

Wastewater Quality Monitoring and Treatment

The issue of water quality monitoring is becoming a huge area as the EU requirements for cleaner water increase. On-line monitoring involves measuring a body of water constantly and in-situ as opp...

Development of Sustainable Bioprocesses

Elmar Heinzle / Arno P. Biwer / Charles L. Cooney

Bioprocess technology involves the combination of living matter (whole organism or enzymes ) with nutrients under laboratory conditions to make a desired product within the pharmaceutical, food, c...

Nanocatalysis

<P>Nanocatalysis, a subdiscipline of nanoscience, seeks to control chemical reactions by changing the size, dimensionality, chemical composition, and morphology of the reaction center and by...

Practical Advances in Petroleum Processing

<P>Includes topics not found together in books on petroleum processing: economics, automation, process modeling, online optimization, safety, environmental protection</P><P>Combi...

Nanostructures

The main theme of this book is the exploration the underlying physical laws that permit the fabrication of nanometer-scale structures. As researchers attempt to fabricate nanometer-scale structure...

Ionic Compounds

Claude H. Yoder

A practical introduction to ionic compounds for both mineralogists and chemists, this book bridges the two disciplines. It explains the fundamental principles of the structure and bonding in miner...

Role of Lipid Excipients in Modifying Oral and Parenteral Drug Delivery

This comprehensive resource covers the fundamentals, formulation, and biopharmaceutical issues of lipid-based drug delivery. It presents the principles of lipid absorption and covers formulation i...

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

John A. Weil / James R. Bolton

This book provides an introduction to the underlying theory, fundamentals, and applications of EPR spectroscopy, as well as new developments in the area. Knowledge of the topics presented will all...

High-Performance Gradient Elution

Lloyd R. Snyder / John W. Dolan

Gradient elution demystified<br /> <br /> Of the various ways in which chromatography is applied today, few have been as misunderstood as the technique of gradient elution, which prese...

Towards an Innovative DNA Array Technology Detection of Pharmaceuticals in Reclaimed Water

Numerous pharmaceutical substances and their metabolites have been identified in the aquatic environment. Due to their unique environmental fate and lack of appropriate biomonitoring techniques, t...

Product Engineering

James Wei

Biophotonics and Coherent Systems in Biology

<P>This book is an account of the original papers presented by the participants of the 3rd Alexander Gurwitsch Conference on the Biophotonics and Coherent Systems in Biology, Biophysics and ...

Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers

Toralf Scharf

<i>Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers</i> deals with the linear optics of birefringent materials, such as liquid crystals and polymers, and surveys light propagation in su...