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Thin Calcium Phosphate Coatings for Medical ImplantsAuthor:
Betty Leon, John JansenPages:
328Format:
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0387777180This book presents for the first time, the scattered novel results that have been achieved in very recent years in study on various thin calcium phosphate coatings produced by very diverse techniques. The comparison of thin calcium phosphate coatings with the thick plasma-sprayed ones is also included in the book. Readers will find a comprehensive book reviewing the state-of-the-art of the field with critical assessment of the achievements of the different preparation techniques. 
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The Physics of Block CopolymersAuthor:
Ian W. HamleyPages:
432Format:
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0198502184This text is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic look at the physics underlying the remarkable structural and dynamical properties of block copolymers. It provides the polymer scientist and technologist with a firm grounding in the fundamental principles underlying the diverse applications, and it highlights many of the intriguing features of these polymers, including nanoscale self-assembly in bulk and two-dimensions. The book includes in-depth discussions of the recent theoretical and experimental advances in the field.Topics covered include the thermodynamics and dynamics of block copolymer melts, block copolymers in dilute, semidilute and concentrated solutions, the structure of crystalline block copolymers, and block copolymers in blends with other polymers. An essential resource for researchers in polymer physics and materials science, the book will also appeal to advanced students and researchers in a wide range of related disciplines.
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Phosphoinositide 3-kinase in Health and Disease: Volume 2Author:
Christian Rommel, Bart Vanhaesebroeck, and Peter K. VogtPages:
280Format:
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3642148158PI3K has become a very intense area of research, with over 2000 publications on PI3K in PubMed for 2009 alone. The expectations for a therapeutic impact of intervention with PI3K activity are high, and progress in the clinical arena is being monitored by many. However, targeted therapies almost invariably encounter roadblocks, often exposing unresolved questions in the basic understanding of the target
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Phosphoinositide 3-kinase in Health and Disease: Volume 1Author:
Christian Rommel, Bart Vanhaesebroeck, and Peter K. VogtPages:
280Format:
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3642136621From humble beginnings over 25 years ago as a lipid kinase activity associated with certain oncoproteins, PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase) has been catapulted to the forefront of drug development in cancer, immunity and thrombosis, with the first clinical trials of PI3K pathway inhibitors now in progress. Here we give a brief overview of some key discoveries in the PI3K area and their impact, and include thoughts on the current state of the field, and where it could go from here
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Developments in Surface Contamination and Cleaning - Methods for Removal of Particle ContaminantsAuthor:
Rajiv KohliPages:
312Format:
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1437778305Rajiv Kohli and Kash Mittal have brought together the work of experts from different industry sectors and backgrounds to provide a state-of-the-art survey and best practice guidance for scientists and engineers engaged in surface cleaning or handling the consequences of surface contamination.Topics covered include:A systems analysis approach to contamination control
Physical factors that influence the behavior of particle deposition in enclosures
An overview of current yield models and description of advanced models
Types of strippable coatings, their properties and applications of these coatings for removal of surface contaminants
In-depth coverage of ultrasonic cleaning
Contamination and cleaning issues at the nanoscale
Experimental results illustrating the impact of model parameters on the removal of particle contamination
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Modern Chromatographic Analysis of Vitamins, 3rd editionAuthor:
Andre P.De Leenheer, Willy E.Lambert, Jan F.Van BocxlaerPages:
606Format:
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0824703162This edition of Modern Chromatographic Analysis of Vitamins is the third of its kind. The first edition was published in 1985 and the second in 1992. The last decade has again witnessed an enormous proliferation of chromatographic techniques for the determination of vitamins in different matrices. It is exactly this progress that is covered in the third edition of this book. The work covers both the fat-soluble (Chapters 1–4) and the water-soluble (Chapters 5–13) vitamins, with emphasis on state-of-the-art chromatography, sample preparation, and final measurement. Following present analytical evolution, sections on recent techniques such as capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry have been added or expanded. Information on metabolism and biochemical function has also been revised to incorporate current knowledge. The contributors include many of the best-known and most knowledgeable workers in the field of vitamin analysis throughout the world and are all recognized experts on their topics.
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Organic Chemistry I (Organic Chemistry Fundamentals) (SparkCharts)Author:
SparkNotes EditorsPages:
4Format:
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1586639633SparkChartsTM—created by Harvard students for students everywhere—serve as study companions and reference tools that cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, including Business, Computer Programming, Medicine, Law, Foreign Language, Humanities, and Science. Titles like How to Study, Microsoft Word for Windows, Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows, and HTML give you what it takes to find success in school and beyond. Outlines and summaries cover key points, while diagrams and tables make difficult concepts easier to digest.
This four-page chart covers:
Bonding in organic compounds
Geometry of molecules
Common atoms in organic chemistry
Types of organic molecules and functional groups, including IUPAC rules
Isomerism and stereochemistry
Spectroscopy of organic molecules and the electromagnetic spectrum
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Organic Chemistry II (Organic Chemistry Reactions) (SparkCharts)Author:
SparkNotes EditorsPages:
4Format:
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1586639641SparkChartsTM—created by Harvard students for students everywhere—serve as study companions and reference tools that cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, including Business, Computer Programming, Medicine, Law, Foreign Language, Humanities, and Science. Titles like How to Study, Microsoft Word for Windows, Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows, and HTML give you what it takes to find success in school and beyond. Outlines and summaries cover key points, while diagrams and tables make difficult concepts easier to digest.
This four-page chart covers:Types of reactions
Reaction mechanisms
Acids and bases in organic reactions
Substitution, addition, and elimination reactions and mechanisms
Rearrangement reactions and mechanisms
Radical reactions
Classes of organic molecules and their reactions
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Chemistry (SparkCharts)Author:
SparkNotes EditorsPages:
1Format:
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158663626XSparkChartsTM—created by Harvard students for students everywhere—serve as study companions and reference tools that cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, including Business, Computer Programming, Medicine, Law, Foreign Language, Humanities, and Science. Titles like How to Study, Microsoft Word for Windows, Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows, and HTML give you what it takes to find success in school and beyond. Outlines and summaries cover key points, while diagrams and tables make difficult concepts easier to digest.
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Colloidal Particles at Liquid InterfacesAuthor:
Bernard P. Binks, Tommy S. HorozovPages:
518Format:
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0521848466Small solid particles adsorbed at liquid interfaces arise in many industrial products and process, such as anti-foam formulations, crude oil emulsions and flotation. They act in many ways like traditional surfactant molecules, but offer distinct advantages. However, the understanding of how these particles operate in such systems is minimal. This book brings together the diverse topics actively being investigated, with contributions from leading experts in the field. After an introduction to the basic concepts and principles, the book divides into two sections. The first deals with particles at planar liquid interfaces, with chapters of an experimental and theoretical nature. The second concentrates on the behaviour of particles at curved liquid interfaces, including particle-stabilized foams and emulsions and new materials derived from such systems. This collection will be of interest to academic researchers and graduate students in chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, pharmacy, food science and materials science.
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Solvation Effects on Molecules and Biomolecules: Computational Methods and ApplicationsAuthor:
Sylvio CanutoPages:
500Format:
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140208269XThis volume is an interdisciplinary treatise on the theoretical approach to solvation problems. Solvents are important in chemistry, physics, and biology. Almost all experiments made in organic chemistry, including all kinds of spectroscopy, are made in solution. In biology, several reactions are known that only occur in an aqueous environment. In physics, the interaction with the environment changes optical properties and affects the design of sensors and devices.In recent years the development of theoretical methods to treat solvation problems has seen great progress and quantum chemistry is now making an important incursion into the liquid phase, coupling statistical physics with quantum mechanics. This book describes the essential details of the theoretical methods and places them into the context of modern applications, and hence is of broad interest to theoreticians and experimentalists in both academic and industrial settings. The assembly of these modern methods and applications into one volume is a unique contribution to date, and is likely to have large impact on the community that is making rapid advances in science and engineering.All of the proposed authors are renowned experts in their fields and the different topics covered in this volume represent complimentary approaches that will give a broad and ample description of the field in its present stage of development.
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Steroid at a GlanceAuthor:
Daniel LednicerPages:
152Format:
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0470660856The term steroid has become virtually synonymous with drug abuse in sport to the majority of the public. However these steroids - androgens - actually comprise only a single relatively small class of biologically active steroids, and are overshadowed by a large collection of compounds, a sizeable number of which are commercial drugs that share the same structural carbon skeleton. The development of these drugs has led to a large body of organic often denoted as "Steroid ".Steroid At A Glance pres a concise overview of the main principles and reactions of steroid . Topics covered include:* history, isolation and structure determination of steroids
* steroid nomenclature and stereo
* natural sources of steroids
* synthesis and reactions of aromatic a-ring steroids, androstanes, and pregnanes
* steroids with a spirolactone at position 17
* steroids with hetrocyclic ring A
* compounds derived from cholesterolBased on the highly successful and student friendly "at a glance" approach, the information is presented in integrated, self contained double page spreads of text and illustrative material. Students of and pharmacy using Steroid at a Glance will find they have a resource with which they can quickly, concisely and confidently acquire, regularly review and revise the basic facts that underpin the properties, synthesis and reactions of this important class of natural products. It will also serve as a handy bench reference for postgraduates and professional chemists.
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Electrical Properties of Polymers by Evaristo RiandeAuthor:
Evaristo Riande and Ricardo Diaz-CallejaPages:
600Format:
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0824753461Electrical Properties of Polymers describes the electric phenomena responsible for determining the chemical and supramolecular structure of polymers and polymeric materials. The authors explore the properties of quasi-static dipoles, reviewing Brownian motion, Debye theory, Langevin and Smoluchowski equations, and the Onsager model. This reference displays Maxwell and entropy equations, along with several others, that depict the thermodynamics of dielectric relaxation. Featuring end-of-chapter problems and useful appendices, the book reviews molecular dynamics simulations of dynamic dielectric properties and inspects mean-square dipole moments of gases, liquids, polymers, and fixed conformations.
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Single Molecule Chemistry and Physics: An introductionAuthor:
C.Wang, C.BaiPages:
306Format:
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3540253696The characterization of individual molecules has been a scientifically attractive and challenging task for decades, and remains so today. New technological developments have facilitated great progress in our understanding of the structure and behavior of single atoms and molecules in various environments. This book provides an introduction to the most important experimental and theoretical methods for characterizing and imaging single molecules, including scanning tunnelling and atomic force microscopy of molecules at surfaces, fluorescence studies, near-field optical microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. It also elucidates newly discovered properties of single-molecular systems and their relevance to the fast growing field of nanotechnology.
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Foundations of Hadronic Chemistry: With Applications to New Clean Energies and FuelsAuthor:
Ruggero Maria SantilliPages:
538Format:
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1402000871Despite outstanding achievements, Quantum Chemistry has failed to achieve exact representations of molecular data from exact quantum principles. Hadronic Chemistry is a new, nonlinear, nonlocal and nonunitary covering discipline which admits all quantum models as particular cases, while permitting invariant representations of molecular data exact to any desired accuracy. These results are due to a new mathematics necessary for the invariant treatment of nonlinear, nonlocal, and nonunitary theories, known as Santilli isomathematics, and a new structure model of molecules with strongly attractive correlations of valence electron pairs in single couplings, which correlations are nonlinear, nonlocal, and nonunitary, thus outside all the capabilities of Quantum Chemistry. Following a systematic presentation of the basic methods, the new model of molecules, and its experimental verifications, the author applies Hadronic Chemistry to the prediction and experimental verification of a new chemical species, called magnecules, consisting of stable clusters of molecules, dimers, and individual atoms under new non-valence internal bonds. Finally, the author applies all these results to the industrial development of new, clean energies and fuels.
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Models for Bonding in ChemistryAuthor:
Valerio MagnascoPages:
232Format:
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0470667036A readable little book assisting the student in understandin, in a nonmathematical way, the essentials of the different bonds occurring in chemistry. Starting with a short, self-contained,introduction, Chapter 1 presents the essential elements of the variation approach to either total or second-order molecular energies, the system of atomic units (au) necessary to simplify all mathematical expressions, and an introductory description of the electron distribution in molecules. Using mostly a 2x2 Huckel secular equation, Chapter 2, by far the largest part of the book because of the many implications of the chemical bond, introduces a model of bonding in homonuclear and heteronuclear diatomics, multiple and delocalized bonds in hydrocarbons, and the stereochemistry of chemical bonds in polyatomic molecules, in a word, a model of the strong first-order interactions originating the chemical bond. Chapter 3 the Huckel model of the linear polyene chain is used to explain the origin of band structure in the 1-dimensional crystal. Chapter 4 deals with a simple two-state model of weak interactions, introducing the reader to understand second-order electric properties of molecules and VdW bonding between closed shells. Lastly, in Chapter 5 studies the structure of H-bonded dimers and the nature of the hydrogen bond, which has a strength intermediate between a VdW bond and a weak chemical bond. Besides a qualitative MO approach based on HOMO-LUMO charge transfer from an electron donor to an electron acceptor molecule, a quantitative electrostatic approach is presented yielding an electrostatic model working even at its simplest pictorial level. A list of alphabetically ordered references, author and subject indices complete the book.
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Intermetallics Research ProgressAuthor:
Yakov N. BerdovskyPages:
302Format:
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1600219829Intermetallics is concerned with all aspects of ordered chemical compounds between two or more metals and notably with their applications. This book covers new and important research on the crystal chemistry and bonding theory of intermetallics; determination and analysis of phase diagrams; the nature of superlattices, antiphase domains and order-disorder transitions; the geometry and dynamics of dislocations and related defects in intermetallics; theory and experiments relating to flow stress, work-hardening, fatigue and creep; response of deformed intermetallics to annealing; magnetic and electrical properties of intermetallics; structure and properties of grain and interphase boundaries;
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Urban Aerosols and Their Impacts: Lessons Learned from the World Trade Center TragedyAuthor:
Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Nancy A. MarleyPages:
384Format:
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0841239169Urban aerosols have been identified as important species of concern due to their potential health and environmental impacts. This symposium series book will describe the basic chemistry and physics determining the impacts of aerosol species and will highlight the research results from the measurements that were taken following the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11/01. The WTC tragedy led to the release of millions of pounds of debris aside from the structural steel, part of which was widely dissipated as aerosols and particulates in the debris cloud over lower Manhattan. Additionally, continuing fires under the debris led to the release of fine combustion related aerosols for a considerable time period in this urban environment. Held during the week of the second anniversary of the WTC tragedy in NYC, the symposium book will describe various aspects of the event, aerosol and gas exposures, and the related impacts of these aerosols. The book contributions will highlight efforts work from atmospheric chemists, meteorologists, health workers, and biologists for a timely compilation of what is known and not known about the composition and transport of tropospheric aerosols in urban environs, particularly those from the WTC collapse. Particular interest is in the acute and chronic environmental effects of these aerosols as they impact human health. Chapters included in the book will also address aerosol lifetimes, aerosol transport and removal processes, acute and chronic health effects to fine aerosol and particulate exposures, and the environmental impacts of aerosols.
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CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent SystemsAuthor:
Christian WohlfarthPages:
632Format:
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0849393612The CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems presents data that is as essential to the production, process design, and use of polymers as it is to understanding the physical behavior and intermolecular interactions in polymer solutions and in developing thermodynamic polymer models.Providing an all-encompassing collection of current enthalpy data for all types of polymer solutions, this handbook is a ready companion with Christian Wohlfarth’s previously published handbooks of thermodynamic data for copolymer solutions, aqueous polymer solutions, and polymer solutions at elevated pressures, which contain only a small amount of enthalpic data in comparison to the data presented here. This volume contains 1770 data sets that include enthalpies of mixing and dilution for the entire concentration range as well as partial enthalpies of mixing and solution at infinite dilution. Special appendices allow scientists to access specific systems and data easily.The CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems is a practical, one-stop resource that allows polymer chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and physical chemists involved in both industrial and laboratory processes to quickly retrieve relevant information as needed.
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Ionic Compounds: Applications of Chemistry to MineralogyAuthor:
Claude H.YoderPages:
207Format:
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0471740462This introduction to ionic compounds is designed for the reader who wants a better understanding of the concepts that are used by the chemist and mineralogist in their attempts to unravel the mysteries of nature. The emphasis on the relationship of structure at the atomic level to the symmetry and properties of crystals will be of particular interest to those interested in mineralogy. The book requires no knowledge of chemistry or mineralogy beyond that obtained in a typical secondary school curriculum. It is designed to appeal to the mineralogy student who wants to delve more deeply into the relationships between structure and bonding at the atomic level and the macroscopic properties of minerals. It should also appeal to the serious mineral collector who wants to learn more about the chemical and crystallographic properties of his collection. Finally, the author hopes that the book will be of value to those students of geology who want to bolster their understanding of chemistry.
