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The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health

Plume, 2007

In a devastating exposé in the tradition of Silent Spring and Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on the planet. A century ago in 1906, when Congress enacted the...

Combustion Processes in Propulsion: Control, Noise, and Pulse Detonation

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

"This collection represents the current state-of-the-art in combustion research for air-breathing chemical propulsion. Nearly an equal mix of computational and experimental results are presented from the major players in Pulse Detonation Engines research, providing the reader with a thorough overview of the contemporary technical issues...

Organic Semiconductors in Sensor Applications (Springer Series in Materials Science)

Springer, 2008

Organic semiconductors offer unique characteristics such as tunability of electronic properties via chemical synthesis, compatibility with mechanically flexible substrates, low-cost manufacturing, and facile integration with chemical and biological functionalities. These characteristics have prompted the application of organic semiconductors and...

Essentials of Computational Chemistry: Theories and Models

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Essentials of Computational Chemistry provides a balanced introduction to this dynamic subject. Suitable for both experimentalists and theorists, a wide range of samples and applications are included drawn from all key areas. The book carefully leads the reader thorough the necessary equations providing information explanations...

Chemical Analysis of Contaminated Land (Sheffield Analytical Chemistry)

Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2003

This book sets out to provide a description of the chemical analysis of potentially contaminated land for all those involved in risk assessment. It is not intended as a recipe book of analytical methods. Indeed, with the wide range of techniques and options available, it would be impracticable and unnecessary to document all potential methods, and...

Modeling by Nonlinear Differential Equations: Dissipative and Conservative Processes (World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series a)

World Scientific Publishing, 2009

This book aims to provide mathematical analyses of nonlinear differential equations, which have proved pivotal to understanding many phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology. Topics of focus are nonlinear oscillations, deterministic chaos, solitons, reaction-diffusion-driven chemical pattern formation, neuron dynamics, autocatalysis and...

Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices

Cambridge University Press, 2010

Explore the potential for nanotechnologies to transform future mobile and Internet communications. Based on a research collaboration between Nokia, Helsinki University of Technology, and the University of Cambridge, here leading researchers review the current state-of-the art and future prospects for:

• Novel multifunctional...

Polymers from Plant Oils

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

The purpose of this monograph is to provide a thorough outlook on the topic related to the synthesis and characterization of original macromolecular materials derived from plant oils, an important part of the broader steadily growing discipline of polymers from renewable resources. The interest in vegetable oils as sources of...

Viruses and Nanotechnology (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)

Springer, 2008

Viral nanoparticles (VNPs) serve as excellent nanobuilding blocks for materials design and fabrication. The main advantages are their nanometer-range size, the propensity to self-assemble into monodisperse nanoparticles of discrete shape and size, the high degree of symmetry and polyvalency, the relative ease of producing large quantities, the...

Chemical Bioavailability in Terrestrial Environments, Volume 32 (Developments in Soil Science)

Elsevier Limited, 2008

This book begins with an overview of current thinking on bioavailability, its definition, cutting edge research in speciation and advancement in tools for assessing chemical bioavailability in the terrestrial environment. The second section of the book focuses on the role of chemical speciation in bioavailability. Section three addresses...

Ultraviolet Light in Food Technology: Principles and Applications (Contemporary Food Engineering)

CRC Press, 2009

The production of environmentally friendly, sustainable, chemical-free food continues to challenge the food industry, spurring on investigations into alternative food processing techniques that are more sophisticated and diverse than current practices. Exploring one of these emerging solutions, Ultraviolet Light in Food Technology:...

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Materials Properties and Performance (Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering)

CRC Press, 2009

A Detailed, Up-to-Date Treatment of Key Developments in PEMFC Materials
The potential to revolutionize the way we power our world

Because of its lower temperature and special polymer electrolyte membrane, the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is well-suited for transportation, portable, and micro...

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