This book is mainly dedicated to the processes of ozonolysis, destruction and stabilisation of polymers, reactions and structure formation of polym...

The role of polymer chemistry (pure and applied sciences) is very prominent in the world of science today, but it is heading away from polymers and...

Interest in the application of multifractal analysis to plastic flow instability is twofold. On the one hand, the unstable, or jerky, flow is a sel...

In this collection, the authors open with a review of current state of the art methods for the recovery and reuse of selected monomers and biomacro...

Nafion is a well-known polymeric material widely used in commercial applications, being the most common material for polymer exchange membranes (PE...

Nanocellulose, due to its nanosize, offers a large surface area with new functionalities. These open a wide range of possible properties, as well a...

Natural products in the plant kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been mo...

The book Natural Polymers: Derivatives, Blends and Composites Volume II is an edited volume comprised of fifteen chapters from different experts wo...

This book gives an update on the inhibitory mechanisms involved in the various steps of hematopoietic stem cell proliferation and differentiation. ...

Colloid and surface science research spans a wide range of topics including biological interactions at surfaces, molecular assembly of selective su...

Carbon-based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNT), carbon black and fullerenes are interesting materials for the development of analytical ...

The chemical or biological process whereby the presence of an external compound, a catalyst, serves as an agent to cause a chemical reaction to occ...

New Developments in Chemistry & Biochemistry

This book presents new developments in chromophore research. Topics discussed include boron-Dipyrromethane (BODIPY) chromophores; a chromophoric te...

New Developments In Crystal Growth

Electrochemistry is the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reacti...

Liquid crystals (LCs) were discovered over a century ago, but their profound impact was in the past four decades through their successful implement...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of metal oxides. Topics discussed include the preparation of titania nanoparticles ...

Organometallic chemistry is based on the reactions and use of a class of compounds (R-M) that contain a covalent bond between carbon and metal. The...

New Developments in Physical Organic Chemistry

Polylactic acid (PLA) is a synthetic and biodegradable polymer. PLA can have important applications in tissue engineering as three-dimensional poro...

New Developments in Polymer Analysis, Stabilisation & Degradation

New Developments in Polymer Research

In this book, the authors present new developments in quartz research. Topics discussed in this compilation include the nature of paramagnetic defe...

Many of the terpenes compounds are naturally occurring organic products abundant in plants, which have been employed for centuries as odorants beca...

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

New Perspectives in Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dihydropyridines (DHPs) are one of the most important nitrogen-containing heterocycles which are widely recognized in the scaffold of various biolo...

As a major defence against environmental damage to cells DNA repair is present in all organisms including bacteria, yeast, drosophila, fish, amphib...

Electrochemistry is the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reacti...

This book on solid state chemistry presents studies of chemical, structural, thermodynamic, electronic, magnetic, and optical properties and proces...

This book focuses on studying the growth, properties and applications of inorganic, organic and molecular thin films. Inorganic thin films are impo...

The chemical or biological process whereby the presence of an external compound, a catalyst, serves as an agent to cause a chemical reaction to occ...

Experimental and theoretical aspects of crystal growth and its applications, e.g. in devices, are within the scope of these new books . Experimenta...

Electrochemistry is the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reacti...

This book is mainly dedicated to the processes of ozonolysis, destruction and stabilisation of polymers, reactions and structure formation of polym...

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

This book presents the latest trends and applications of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). It includes research and applic...

This book presents and discusses recent research developments in the field of chemical physics. Topics discussed herein include quantum dynamics in...

Ionic polymers are present almost everywhere in the world, biological systems being the most important reservoir of ionic polymers such as nucleic ...

This collection of texts written by well-recognised specialists was constituted having in view these important directions of actual research. Susta...

This book tries to disseminate recent research results, and to stimulate new and extended activities in the field of polymer science and hybrid mat...

Nowadays, there is a growing need for applications in food control and safety analysis to cope with the analysis of a large number of analytes in a...

In this volume, we included information about the preparation, characterisation and applications of magnesium stearate, cobalt stearate and copper ...

This work is devoted to the discoveries and/or knowledge developed in the past years in the area of the application of heterogeneous catalysts cont...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a pleiotropic free radical messenger molecule. There is enzymatic, non-enzymatic and bacterial production of NO in the human g...

Nitrogen fixation is the process by which nitrogen is taken from its natural, relatively inert molecular form (N2) in the atmosphere and converted ...

Quantum chemistry is a branch of theoretical chemistry, which applies quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to address problems in chemistry. ...