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This book focuses on the widely used experimental techniques available for the structural, morphological, and spectroscopic characterization of materials. Recent developments in a wide range of experimental techniques and their application to the quantification of materials properties are an essential side of this book. Moreover, it provides concise but thorough coverage of the practical and theoretical aspects of the analytical techniques used to characterize a wide variety of functional nanoma...

The book presents a unique view of failure analysis of high technology devices. It describes capabilities and limitations of many analytical techniques and testing paths and decisions best followed in example failure analysis studies.

Containing articles by internationally renowned scientists, this book covers the use of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) techniques for a range of applications. The authors present practical approaches along with clear principles that are easily accessible to the method developer as well as the scientist. They discuss major HPLC analytical modes including size exclusion, ion-exchange, reverse-phase, hydrophobic interactions, immunoaffinity, and more. Highlights of the second edition...

Food and beverage labels often specify a product's geographical origin, species, variety and method of production. These claims can significantly influence an item's economic value, but their verification is not always straightforward. New analytical approaches for verifying the origin of food reviews new analytical methods in this area together with applications to key commodities. Part one introduces the concept of food origin and provides supporting information on labelling legislation and s...

This book presents some of the latest information available about inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and applications of this instrumental technique to the analysis of a variety of materials. Written in a concise, straight-forward manner, Part 1 includes chapters on the principles of ICP-MS, the main components of an instrument, interferences, drift, the effects of the main operating parameters, calibration, and methods of sample preparation. Part 2 features detailed analytica...

Forensic Chemistry provides forensic chemists with the necessary background information needed to examine physical evidence and interpret the results from the examination of this evidence. The peer-reviewed text covers background material on the interface between chemistry and the law, the physical and chemical analysis of materials that are commonly encountered in a forensics laboratory, crime scenes, and civil cases, and the interpretation of this evidence. The text includes a chapter on commu...

Hydrides are compounds containing hydrogen having reducing property. These compounds have wide ranging applications in hydrogen storage, electrochemical, heat storage, other solar related applications and in batteries. This book is a compilation of reviews, research articles on hydrogen material science and application of metal hydrides. Chapters 1-6 deal with the hydrogen economy, modern concepts of energy conversion and storage, effects of structural changes in metal hydrides on hydrogen stora...

The design and the realisation of well defined polymer architectures has become an important goal in macromolecular science. The prerequisite for achieving this goal is the availability of controlled polymerisation reactions. Living anionic polymerisation was the first reaction fulfilling these requirements. Cationic polymerisation only came into play when it was realised that it was possible to create an equilibrium between active and dormant species with the fraction of the dormant species bei...

Armorial porcelains comprised the output of most European ceramics factories in the 18th and 19th Centuries in response to the large quantity of armorial porcelain services that were being imported from China bearing the coats of arms and crests of aristocratic families. Whereas these armorial services have been identified and covered for most porcelain manufactories the information relevant to their production by the two relatively short-lived Nantgarw and Swansea China Works has not been addre...

This thesis provides the first atomic length-scale observation of the structural transformation (referred to as lattice reconstruction) that occurs in moiré superlattices of twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) at low (θ 2˚) twist angles. Such information is essential for the fundamental understanding of how manipulating the rotational twist-angle between two adjacent 2-dimensional crystals subsequently affects their optical and electrical properties. Studies using Scanning...

Learn to implement effective control measures for mutagenic impurities in pharmaceutical development In Mutagenic Impurities: Strategies for Identification and Control, distinguished chemist Andrew Teasdale delivers a thorough examination of mutagenic impurities and their impact on the pharmaceutical industry. The book incorporates the adoption of the ICH M7 guideline and focuses on mutagenic impurities from both a toxicological and analytical perspective. The editor has created a primary refe...

Light scattering is a very powerful method for characterizing the structure of polymers and nanoparticles in solution. As part of the Springer Laboratory series, this book provides a simple-to-read and illustrative textbook probing the seemingly very complicated topic of light scattering from polymers and nanoparticles in dilute solution, and goes further to cover some of the latest technical developments in experimental light scattering.

This volume discusses the current challenges related to the reuse of wastewater. It reviews the analytical methodologies for evaluating emerging contaminants and their transformation products, the sensitivity of various bioassays for assessing the biological effects of treated wastewater, and the bioavailability and uptake of organic contaminants during crop irrigation. It describes in detail the physicochemical and microbiological alterations in soil resulting from irrigation with treated urban...

Interest in the study of early European cultures is growing. These cultures have left us objects made of gold, other metals and ceramics. The advent of metal detectors, coupled with improved analytical techniques, has increased the number of findings of such objects enormously. Gold was used for economic and ceremonial purposes and thus the gold objects are an important key to our understanding of the social and political structures, as well as the technological achievements, of Bronze an...