Chemistry

Over the last few years, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has rapidly developed into an important and extremely useful method of analysis.

It is a basic law of chemistry that pressure influences reactions.

Contamination control has received great interest and found increasing use within several industrial branches including microelectronics, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages using various concepts of contamination control in their production, purification or packaging process.

This handbook gives a complete and concise description of the up-to-date knowledge of nuclear and radiochemsitry and applications in the various fields of science.

An ebook for practitioners who use capillary gas chromatography The chapters within Food and Environmental Analysis by Capillary Gas Chromatography - Hints for Practical Use cover a range of topics.

This forth updated edition contains the latest developments in analytical techniques.

Many modern pharmaceutical and biological products, e.

Surface Characterization provides an authoritative guide to the wide range of powerful techniques that are used to characterize the surfaces of materials.

Expectations of a technological revolution are associated with nanotechnology, and indeed the generation, modification and utilization of objects with tiniest dimensions already permeates science and research in a way that the absence of nanotechnology is no longer conceivable.

Get a good start in flavor and fragrance chemistry!

The state-of-the-art in NMR spectral analysis.

A unique approach to solving HPLC problems.

This is the first book to present both classical and quantum-chemical approaches to computational methods, incorporating the many new developments in this field from the last few years.

This book introduces the principles and concepts of chemical and biochemical sensors for analyzing medical as well as biological samples.

Written by a global team of top managers and senior McKinsey experts, this expanded and completely revised second edition provides a wide-ranging manual on the subject of value creation in the chemical industry.

Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions are arguably the most important processes in chemistry, as they represent key steps in the building of complex molecules from simple precursors.

This timely and topical book reviews the important developments in the 'B12-field' with regard to biological, chemical, pharmaceutical and medicinal aspects.

Most drugs bind to a clearly defined macromolecular target that is complementary in terms of structure and chemistry.

A new window to local studies of interface phenomena at solid state surfaces has been opened by the development of local probe techniques such as Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) or Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and related methods during the past fifteen years.

This book describes the fundamental principles of electronic weighing, beginning with the theoretical background of the basic components and continuing with the theoretical formulas to calculate the weighing accuracy in different applications, including the influence on accuracy of external disturbing forces.

'Everything there is to know about inorganic pigments' Revised and updated, this book offers a concise and thorough presentation of inorganic pigments in their diversity: their manufacturing processes, their applications and markets, their testing procedures and standards, and also the health and environmental regulations relating to them.

In this concise handbook leading experts give a broad overview of the latest developments in this emerging and fascinating field of nano-sized materials.

Electroactive oligomers form an important class of advanced materials for the development of new devices such as thin-film, flexible batteries; semiconductors; large-area optical displays; and sensors.

- Modern uses of traditional materials - 'Lime and Limestone' is a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of the main scientific and technological aspects of the quarrying, processing, calcining and slaking of lime and limestone products.

The only topical HPLC book to focus on optimization, this volume addresses the needs of HPLC users who wish to constantly improve their methods, in particular in terms of throughput, accuracy and cost-effectiveness.

Rechargeable Batteries with high energy density are in great demand as energy sources for various purposes, e.

This is a book for developers of catalysts, and for practitioners working in the field of design, operation, and optimization of chemical reactors in which heterogeneous catalysis is performed.

In industry very few metals are used in their pure form; the majority are employed as a combination of a metal with other metals, nonmetals or metalloids.

This book builds up on the success of the first edition of Paints, Coatings, and Solvents.

'Spatially Resolved Magnetic Resonance' provides comprehensive and exhaustive coverage of the state of the art in magnetic resonance imaging.

The demand for flavourings has been constantly increasing over the last years as a result of the dramatic changes caused by a more and more industrialised life-style: The consumer is drawn to interesting, healthy, pleasurable, exciting or completely new taste experiences.

In spite of the good safety records of chemical plants many people regard chemical production as dangerous because of a few major accidents that have occurred.

This first concise handbook on this important new class of organic conducting materials gives a broad survey over this emerging field of research.

A comprehensive and substantial source of information on the properties, production, processing and applications of copper and copper alloys, of interest to metallurgical, development, design and testing engineers in the automotive and other industries using copper.

You know that you need oxygen to breathe, that neon can glow and chrome shines?

This truly comprehensive treatise of foldamers, from synthesis to applications in bio-, material-, and nanoscience is at once an introduction to the topic, while providing in-depth accounts on various aspects clearly aimed at the specialist.

This up-to-date review closes an important gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive description of the Mossbauer effect in lattice dynamics, along with a collection of applications in metals, alloys, amorphous solids, molecular crystals, thin films, and nanocrystals.

With this handbook, the distinguished team of editors has combined the expertise of leading nanomaterials scientists to provide the latest overview of this field.

Superbly organized and of great pedagogic value, 'Spectroscopy in Catalysis' describes the most important modern analytical techniques used to investigate catalytic surfaces.

Adopting a unique, integrated engineering approach, this text simultaneously covers all aspects of design and operation, process analysis, optimization, monitoring and control.

This fourth edition of the classic guide for every user of gas chromatographic instrumentation is now updated to include such new topics as fast GC using narrow, short columns, electronic pressure control, and basic aspects of quantitative gas chromatography.

Following on from previous publications in 1997, 2000 and 2003, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) presents its fourth "e;Funding Ranking"e;, an overview of the distribution of awards to universities and non-university research institutions in Germany.

The combined results from an international research project involving 40 interdisciplinary groups, providing the latest knowledge from the past few years.

Wie die vorherigen Stellungnahmen und Empfehlungen der DFG zur Stammzellforschung von 1999 und 2001 wird sicherlich auch diese eine lebhafte Debatte in Politik, Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit auslösen.

An immense treasure trove containing hundreds of equipment symptoms, arranged so as to allow swift identification and elimination of the causes.

A description of the use of computer aided modeling and simulation in the development, integration and optimization of industrial processes.

This first book to focus on the important and topical effect of light on polymeric materials reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the topic, building a bridge between polymer chemistry and physics, photochemistry and photophysics, and materials science.

This first book to focus on catalytic processes from the viewpoint of green chemistry presents every important aspect: ?

A practical summary of the technical and technological as well as nutritional and physiological properties attained through the targeted selection of raw materials and the corresponding production processes.