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Handbook of Ceramic Composites

<P>This valuable handbook has been compiled by internationally renowned researchers in the field. Each chapter is focused on a specific composite system or a class of composites, presenting ...

The Entrepreneurial Engineer

David E. Goldberg

"Informative, provocative, and practical...developing the skills outlined in The Entrepreneurial Engineer is a necessity for a productive engineering career."<br /> —Raymond L. Pri...

Effective Groundwater Model Calibration

Mary C. Hill / Claire R. Tiedeman

<b>Methods and guidelines for developing and using mathematical models</b> <p>Turn to <i>Effective Groundwater Model Calibration</i> for a set of methods and guideli...

Coating and Drying Defects

Edgar B. Gutoff / Edward D. Cohen

<b>A practical guide for ensuring a defect-free coating and drying process</b> <p>For professionals in the coating and drying industry, the world is a demanding place. New, tech...

Introduction to Cake Filtration

Introduction to Cake Filtration presents a comprehensive account of cake filtration studies including analyses of cake formation and growth, results of filtration experiments and data interpretati...

Nanocrystalline Materials

Nanocrystalline materials with new functionalities show great promise for use in industrial applications - such as reinforcing fillers in novel polymer composites - and substantial progress has be...

Voltage-Gated Ion Channels as Drug Targets, Volume 29

Edited by the most prominent person in the field and top researchers at US pharmaceutical companies, this is a unique resource for drug developers and physiologists seeking a molecular-level under...

Proteomics in Drug Research

From skillful handling of the wide range of technologies to successful applications in drug discovery -- this handbook has all the information professional proteomics users need. <br> Edited...

Ligand Design for G Protein-coupled Receptors

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are one of the most important target classes in pharmacology and are the target of many blockbuster drugs. Yet only with the recent elucidation of the rhodopsin...

Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design

Dennis A. Smith / Don K. Walker / Han van de Waterbeemd

In this new edition of a bestseller, all the contents have been updated and new material has been added, especially in the areas of toxicity testing and high throughput analysis. The authors, all ...

Reactive Distillation

In a reactive distillation column, both the chemical conversion and the distillative separation of the product mixture are carried out simultaneously. Through this integrative strategy, chemical e...

Scale-up in Chemical Engineering

Marko Zlokarnik

Covering the important task of the scale-up of processes from the laboratory to the production scale, this easily comprehensible and transparent book is divided into two sections. The first part d...

Common Fragrance and Flavor Materials

Horst Surburg / Johannes Panten

Get a good start in flavor and fragrance chemistry!<br> <br> This book presents a survey of those natural and synthetic fragrance and flavor materials which are commercially available,...

Industrial Biotransformations

The completely revised second edition of this user-friendly and application-oriented overview of one-step biotransformations of industrial importance. <br> Based on extensive literature and ...

Metal Matrix Composites

Since the properties of MMCs can be directly designed "into" the material, they can fulfill all the demands set by design engineers.<br> This book surveys the latest results and deve...

Handbook of Paper and Board

This first comprehensive handbook on the subject describes the manufacturing processes of various types of papers, recovered paper treatment, as well as the quality and economical aspects. More th...

Functional Coatings

This first book to concentrate on providing a concise, representative overview of polymer microencapsulation for novel organic coatings and all its chemical and engineering aspects collates the li...

Comparative Risk Assessment

Holger Schütz / Martin Clauberg / Johannes Mertens / Peter M. Wiedemann / Wilfried Hennings

Providing a catalogue of suggested solutions for different categories of issues, this book offers a balanced overview and methodological examples for the practical implementation of the CRA. It co...

Polymorphism

Edited by one of the leading experts in the field, this handbook emphasizes why solid-state issues are important, which approaches should be taken to avoid problems and exploit the opportunities o...

Kunststoffe

Als Kunststoffe werden hochmolekulare Substanzen bezeichnet, aus denen sich mittels geeigneter Verarbeitungsprozesse Formkörper herstellen lassen, die bei Raumtemperatur hart und steif sind. Sie ...