Analytical chemistry

The result of a unique collaboration between clinicians, chemists and physicists, this book provides an unparalleled overview of a new generation of diagnostic tools in clinical pathology.

For more than two decades, this work has remained the leading advanced textbook and easy-to-use reference on food chemistry and technology.

When presented with a new compound or material, the inorganic chemist will usually have several questions in mind about its composition and structure.

The first comprehensive resource on the chemistry of vanadium, Vanadium: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Practical Applications has evolved from over a quarter century of research that concentrated on delineating the aqueous coordination reactions that characterize the vanadium(V) oxidation state.

Arsenic Speciation in Algae, Volume 85, addresses the most important issues to consider during arsenic speciation in algae, including new sections on Occurrence, distribution, and significance of arsenic speciation, Biogeochemistry of arsenic in aquatic environments: the role of speciation, Sampling and sampling processing: fit for purpose techniques, Separation methods applied to arsenic speciation, Detection and quantification of arsenic compounds, Analytical approaches for proteomics and lipidomics of arsenic in algae, Quality control and quality assurance issues in arsenic speciation, Arsenic speciation in algae: case studies in Europe, and more.

This volume provides up-to-date information on the developments in chromatographic methods and applications to provide readers with stimulating, critical, readable, and relevant reviews of this subject.

Experimental Methods and Instrumentation for Chemical Engineers is a practical guide for research engineers and students, process engineers and, consultants, and others in the chemical engineering field.

The book reviews the basic concepts and highlights the most relevant advances and developments that have taken place in the field of comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography (GC x GC) since its introduction in 1991.

Since the first edition of "e;Scanning 'funneling Microscopy I"e; has been pub- lished, considerable progress has been made in the application of STM to the various classes of materials treated in this volume, most notably in the field of adsorbates and molecular systems.

This thesis approaches impact resistance in dense suspensions from a new perspective.

Raman spectroscopy has become one of the most important techniques effectively applied to detect specific analytes and microorganisms in food samples.

Explains why modern supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is the leading "e;green"e; analytical and purification separations technology.

Since the introduction of FT-NMR spectroscopy around five decades ago, NMR has achieved significant advances in hardware and methodologies, accompanied with the enhancement of spectral resolution and signal sensitivity.

This book summarizes recent progress in cellulose chemistry.

A Mole of Chemistry: An Historical and Conceptual Approach to Fundamental Ideas in Chemistry is intended for students in their undergraduate years who need to learn the basics of chemistry, including science and engineering as well as humanities.

are intended to fill the gap between a manufacturer's handbook, and review articles that highlight the latest scientific developments.

This book provides a holistic review of the environmental status of Lake Urmia in terms of its hydrodynamic, chemical, and ecological properties.

This book examines enzymatic reactions from the standpoint of physical chemistry.

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS or ELS) has been used to investi- gate the physical properties of solids for over 40 years in a handful of laboratories distributed around the world.

Molecular Imprinting for Nanosensors and Other Sensing Applications provides fundamental knowledge on molecular imprinting, including types, preparation methods, properties and characterization techniques.

This timely reference discusses mass spectrometry in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies.

This book focuses on charged-particle optics and microscopy, as well as their applications in the materials sciences.

Molecular recognition, also known as biorecognition, is the heart of all biological interactions.

Dear Readers, Since the ground-breaking, Nobel-prize crowned work of Heeger, MacDiarmid, and Shirakawa on molecularly doped polymers and polymers with an alternating bonding structure at the end of the 1970s, the academic and industrial research on hydrocarbon-based semiconducting materials and devices has made encouraging progress.

Comprehensive and multidisciplinary presentation of the current trends in trace elements for human, animals, plants, and the environment This reference provides the latest research into the presence, characterization, and applications of trace elements and their role in humans, animals, and plants as well as their use in developing novel, functional feeds, foods, and fertilizers.

With applications across chemistry, physics and medicine, nuclear magnetic resonance is a proven, uniquely versatile and powerful spectroscopic technique.

Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy, Volume 97, provides an in-depth accounting of progress in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and its many applications.

The popularity of the plant Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) has risen due to increasing use and interest in its sweet constituents called steviol glycosides.

Hyperspectral Imaging, Volume 32, presents a comprehensive exploration of the different analytical methodologies applied on hyperspectral imaging and a state-of-the-art analysis of applications in different scientific and industrial areas.

The book covers in particular state-of-the-art scientific research about product quality control and related health and environmental safety topics, including human, animal and plant safety assurance issues.

An Approach to Chemical Analysis: Its Development and Practice provides an overview of the development of chemical analysis and its application in solving analytical problems in chemistry.

This book describes advanced research on the structures and photochemical properties of polyatomic molecules and molecular clusters having various functionalities under cold gas-phase conditions.

The book presents recent developments in the field of composites, investigated by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) and sheds a special focus on nanocomposites.

Most lab manuals assume a high level of knowledge among biochemistry students, as well as a large amount of experience combining knowledge from separate scientific disciplines.

The Institute for Amorphous Studies was founded in 1982 as the international center for the investigation of amorphous mate- rials.

This book is designed to be a central text for young graduate students interested in mass spectrometry as it relates to the study of protein structure and function as well as proteomics.

This thesis explores two distinct applications of laser spectroscopy: the study of nuclear ground state properties, and element selective radioactive ion beam production.

Photon-in-photon-out core level spectroscopy is an emerging approach to characterize the electronic structure of catalysts and enzymes, and it is either installed or planned for intense synchrotron beam lines and X-ray free electron lasers.

This book focuses on the modern development of techniques for analysis of the hierarchical structure of polymers from both the experimental and theoretical points of view.

This volume contains the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Applied Laser Spectroscopy"e; the fourteenth course of the Europhysics School of Quantum Electronics, held under the supervision of the Quantum Electronics Division of the European Physical Society.

Materials Science today is the base for all technological and industrial developments.

Analytical chemistry today is almost entirely instrumental analytical chemistry and it is performed by many scientists and engineers who are not chemists.

th The Who's Who in Fluorescence 2008 is the 6 Volume of the Who's Who Series.

The practical properties of many materials are dominated by surface and near-surface composition and structure.

This first overview of mass spectrometry-based pharmaceutical analysis is the key to improved high-throughput drug screening, rational drug design and analysis of multiple ligand-target interactions.

This book provides a detailed description of the modern variational methods available for solving the nuclear motion Schrodinger equation to enable accurate theoretical spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules.

Large amounts of money, time and effort are devoted to sensory and consumer research in food and beverage companies in an attempt to maximize the chances of new products succeeding in the marketplace.

International Series of Monographs in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 49: Isotope Dilution Analysis focuses on the method of isotope dilution analysis (IDA).

In-cell NMR spectroscopy is a relatively new field.