Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes

Microstructures, electronics, nanotechnology - these vast fields of research are growing together as the size gap narrows and many different materials are combined.

This ninth volume in the series concentrates on in situ spectroscopic methods and combines a balanced mixture of theory and applications, making it highly readable for chemists and physicists, as well as for materials scientists and engineers.

This series, formerly edited by Heinz Gerischer and Charls V.

This series, formerly edited by Heinz Gerischer and Charls V.

Finding the new remedy for a certain disease: an inspired goal.

This world-famous reference work has been enlarged and updated without tampering with its tried and tested format.

How safe is safe enough?

Fractal geometry is revolutionizing the descriptive mathematics of applied materials systems.

Derived from the highly acclaimed series Materials Science and Technology, this book provides in-depth coverage of STM, AFM, and related non-contact nanoscale probes along with detailed applications, such as the manipulation of atoms and clusters on a nanometer scale.

High purity, thin metal coatings have a variety of important commercial applications, for example, in the microelectronics industry, as catalysts, as protective and decorative coatings as well as in gas-diffusion barriers.

Question: How can I best evaluate the environmental impact and find the risk of water pollution from wastewater disposal?

This book surveys methods, problems, and tools used in process control engineering.

With applications ranging from asymmetric catalysis to magnetic materials, ferrocene is one of the most versatile building blocks in synthesis.

Who killed Napoleon?

Derived from the highly acclaimed series Materials Science and Technology, this book covers the properties as well as the present and emerging applications of intermetallics.

Dynamic environmental processes are complex; the easiest and most effective way to understanding them lies through the disciplines of dynamic modelling and computer simulation.

Electrochromic devices have a number of important commercial applications, for instance in displays, as optical shutters, and as modulators for mirrors, windows, and sun-glasses.

With the dramatically rising sophistication of biological methods and products and the increasing use of recombinant DNA technology, now is an apt time to review the status of biotechnology in animal feeding.

This authoritative review brings scientists up-to-date with the exciting recent developments in modern electric field applications and highlights their benefits compared with other methods.

It is increasingly recognized that the greatest risks of error in environmental analysis lie in the sample preparation rather than the analysis stage.

Bioinformatics, in this context the application of computer science to biological problems, has become an indispensable part of any research in the biosciences.

This exceptional book reveals the results of twelve years of extensive thermoanalytical investigations into petroleum and its products with the aid of 236 tables, 284 diagrams and 159 references.

Environmental technology plays an increasingly important role in today's world.

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) are powerful tools for surface examination.

Research on metal-containing liquid crystals is a rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field with new materials continually being synthesized and novel applications being developed.

A book on the study of orientation and oriented polymersThis book begins with an overview of the orientation phenomenon.

Strategic planning is a critical subject, central to the success of any scientific and economical enterprise.

A book on the role of rheokinetics in polymer technology This book looks at rheokinetics as a subject that can be taught to university students as part of a chemistry, rheology, hydrodynamics or related course.

Electrochemical processes and methods are basic to many important scientific disciplines, materials science and nanotechnology being only two keywords.

With combinatorial chemistry millions of organic compounds can be produced simultaneously, quickly, and in most cases by automated procedures.

Over the past two decades, thermal spraying of metallic, ceramic and composite coatings has emerged as a powerful tool for surface engineering, with many new applications and markets continually being developed.

Exciting reading for anyone with a curious mind!

Written by leading experts in the field, this practical reference handbook offers an up-to-date, critical survey of the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of nonmetals, a key technology in semiconductor electronics, finishing, and corrosion protection.

This book is concerned with modelling the fate of organic substances in the soil.

For the first time: A comprehensive Overview on Resins!

Chemical growth methods of electronic materials are the keystone of microelectronic device processing.

Derived from the successful three-volume Handbook of Microscopy, this book provides a broad survey of the physical fundamentals and principles of all modern techniques of electron microscopy.

Refractory organic substances (ROS) are an essential part of the biogeochemical carbon cycle.

With more than 20 contributions from leading research groups, this book provides essential information for chemists and materials scientists working with molecular clusters.

Industrial Biotransformations - a user-friendly and application-oriented up-to-date overview of one-step biotransformations of industrial importance.

As we enter the new millennium, combinatorial chemistry is providing significant impetus to new innovations in synthetic chemistry.

Many modern medicines, for example blood derivatives, vaccines, cytostatic drugs, and antibiotics, but also soluble coffee, have one thing in common: freeze-drying is the best method of transforming the perishable substances into a form that keeps well and allows the substances to be stored before being returned almost to their natural state.

Characterization of fine particles is a difficult task!

Proteomics - the analysis of the whole set of proteins and their functions in a cell - is based on the revolutionary developments which have been achieved in protein analysis during the last years.

This handbook is a unique compendium of knowledge on all aspects of the physics of liquid crystals.

Modern Polymer Spectroscopy provides a 'guided tour' to the state of the art in polymer analysis by vibrational spectroscopy.

Production-integrated environmental protection is synonymous with - reducing the amount of potential pollutants at source - reducing the consumption of resources and energy - recycling and utilization of residues and used products, and therefore a topic of considerable current interest.

The ability of condensation polymers to undergo additional chemical reactions, so-called transreactions, is really fascinating.

The production of high-purity ceramic materials from low-molecular weight, inorganic or organoelement precursors is a topic of increasing relevance within materials science.

Microcomponents and microdevices are increasingly finding application in everyday life.