Chemical and Materials Engineering: Handbooks, encyclopedia and reference works

All aspects of composites, from theory to practical applications.

All areas of polymer science, including nanotechnology, new imaging and analytical techniques, new methods of controlled polymer architecture and biomimetics.

Designed for material scientists, chemists, chemical engineers, process engineers, consultants, patent attorneys.

Spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and scattering phenomena.

Drug delivery, enzyme behavior, and protein adsorption; the current utilization of colloids, emulsions, foams, gels, and fine particles; chemical behavior at electrochemical, fluid-fluid, polymer, soil, mineral, and atmospheric boundaries; mechanisms of catalysis, transport, and adsorption; characterization of fatty acids and lipids; commercial uses for membranes.

Fundamental physics and the technology of semiconductors.

Covers the major classes of nanomaterials in terms of their synthesis, structure, and applications, reviewing nanomaterials and their respective technologies in well-structured and comprehensive articles with extensive cross-references.

Membrane science and technology.

Materials characterisation techniques, including computational and theoretical methods as well as crystallography, mechanical testing, thermal analysis, optical imaging and spectroscopy.

All aspects of polymer science from chemistry and chemical engineering to materials science, biological aspects, applications and fate of polymers in the environment.