Many members of plant and fungi kingdoms have toxic alkaloids that are highly poisonous. Chapter One explores how gas chromatography is used to ana...

Gas Chromatography: History, Methods and Applications focuses on the main applications of gas chromatography in clinical and forensic toxicology, m...

In recent decades, the science of gas separation by use of a nanoporous permselective membrane has widely developed due to properties such as low e...

In recent years, minerals and gems have enjoyed growing renown and popularity. At this time there are some 3,800 different minerals known from all ...

In geometric knot theory, a central issue is to study the various geometric properties of knots when the knots have certain thickness. This setting...

Germanium is a relatively scarce element found in the Earth's crust at a concentration of 0.007% in the form of bromides, chlorides, fluorides, iod...

The opening chapter of Glass-Ceramics: Properties, Applications and Technology offers an overview of glass-ceramics (GCs) from their discovery to t...

This book reviews sources, applications and new research of glucosides. Chapter One introduces the source (where and how mycotoxins are glucosylate...

Graphene has drawn considerable scientific and commercial interest thanks to its unique structure, including being single-atom thick, strictly two-...

Graphite oxide is one of the promising carbon based materials in the field of modern science and technology. Graphite oxide is the oxidised form of...

Graphene oxide is a carbon-based material what produces a monolayer or a few layers of oxygen-functionalized graphene. The number of layers usually...

Graphite is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions and is used in thermochemistry as the standard state for defining the heat of ...

Nanotechnology, energy and the environment are three key hot topics included in green technologies present in all international challenges for the ...

Nanotechnology, energy and the environment are three key hot topics included in green technologies present in all international challenges for the ...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to green polymeric materials, which are developed by using natural resource-based polymers. This book al...

In order to fully apprehend the conceptual aspects of the world, we need to look at the practical applications of those concepts, as the Cube provi...

Hafnium is a chemical element with the symbol Hf and atomic number 72. This book brings together contributions from experts in their related fields...

This book discusses the chemistry, physical properties and structural effects of halides. Topics include the physical properties of alkali halide c...

Halloysite is a natural clay mineral that belongs to the kaolin group. Its chemical formula is Al2(OH)4Si2O5.nH2O. Primarily, this mineral is an id...

The majority of chapters in this book were written by scientists of N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics (IBChPh) of Russian Academy of S...

This book presents ways in which computers can be used to solve chemical problems. One approach develops synoptic algebraic scaling laws to use in ...

Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behaviour of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical c...

Ionic liquids (ILs) are a class of low melting point, ionic compounds which have a variety of properties allowing many of them to be sustainable gr...

Handbook of Polymer Research - Monomers. Oligomers, Polymers & Composites

Polymers are substances containing a large number of structural units joined by the same type of linkage. These substances often form into a chain-...

Polymers are substances containing a large number of structural units joined by the same type of linkage. These substances often form into a chain-...

Porphyrin and its derivatives have been widely studied due to their numerous physical/chemical properties and their applications in fields such as ...

Zeolites are microporous crystalline solids with well-defined structures. Generally they contain silicon, aluminium and oxygen in their framework a...

Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique for the determination of the elemental composition of a sample or molecule. It is also used for e...

The General Mining Act of 1872 allowed individuals to obtain exclusive rights to valuable hardrock mineral deposits on land belonging to the United...

In this book, the incidence of the second law of thermodynamics on heat capacity is examined with respect to heat flux taking place in a thermodyna...

Hematite is the mineral form of iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. In this book, the authors present current research in the stud...

Considering the extensive applications that have been discovered for naphthoquinone-triazole hybrids in the search for new bioactive molecules, Het...

Heterocyclic compounds are organic compounds containing at least one atom of carbon, and at least one element other than carbon, such as sulphur, o...

Heterogeneous catalysis is a chemistry term which describes catalysis where the catalyst is in a different phase (ie. solid, liquid and gas, but al...

This book provides new research on the design, applications and research insights of heterogeneous catalysts. Chapter One discusses the assembly of...

Heterometallic Coordination Copper (Ii) Compounds - Classification & Analysis of Crystallographic & Structural Data

High resolution Fourier transform spectra of linear molecules have evoked a great deal of interest during the last several years, which could be se...

In this collection, the authors discuss the way in which it is possible to detect the low concentrations at which toxic compounds and metabolites a...

Homolytic & Heterolytic Reactions - Problems & Solutions

Polymers are substances containing a large number of structural units joined by the same type of linkage. These substances often form into a chain-...

Smart polymer materials represent an exciting range of novel materials for advanced applications such as aeronautics and biomedical devices. These ...

In the period of more than twenty years, the Research Institute of Inorganic Chemistry in the Czech Republic, together with various other universit...

Hydrides: Types, Bonds and Applications first proposes metal hydrides as a fascinating class of compounds due to the small mass and size of hydroge...

As the inorganic constituents of skeletons, dentine and the enamel of teeth in all vertebrates, as well as antlers of male deer, calcium orthophosp...

Hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) have attracted great interest due to their characteristics such as low viscosity, high solubility, numerous terminal ...

Illegal immigration is the movement of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. In po...

In the opening attempts are made to provide a brief survey of di-imines derived from benzil hydrazones through imine chemistry. Imines are compound...