Metal Nanoparticles: Synthesis Characterization & Applications

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A state-of-the-art reference, Metal Nanoparticles offers the latest research on the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanoparticles. Following an introduction of structural, optical, electronic, and electrochemical properties of nanoparticles, the book elaborates on nanoclusters, hyper-Raleigh scattering, nanoarrays, and several applications including single electron devices, chemical sensors, biomolecule sensors, and DNA detection. The text emphasizes how size, shape, and surface chemistry affect particle performance throughout. Topics include synthesis and formation of nanoclusters, nanosphere lithography, modeling of nanoparticle optical properties, and biomolecule sensors.

Hybrid Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

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Hybrid Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

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Hybrid materials have currently a great impact on numerous future developments including nanotechnology. This book presents an overview about the different types of materials, clearly structured into synthesis, characterization and applications. A perfect starting point for everyone interested in the field, but also for the specialist as a source of high quality information.

Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials (Acs Symposium Series)

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Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials (Acs Symposium Series)

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Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials includes sections on synthesis, characterization, elastomers and reinforcement, surfaces and interfaces, copolymers, and reinforcing fillers. Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials reviews recent academic and technological developments behind silicones and silicone-modified materials. Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials includes sections on synthesis, characterization, elastomers and reinforcement, surfaces and interfaces, copolymers, and reinforcing fillers. Synthesis and Properties of Silicones and Silicone-Modified Materials reviews recent academic and technological developments behind silicones and silicone-modified materials.

Cross-Coupling Reactions: A Practical Guide (Topics in Current Chemistry)

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Cross-Coupling Reactions: A Practical Guide (Topics in Current Chemistry)

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Organic Conductors, Superconductors and Magnets: From Synthesis to Molecular Electronics (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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Organic Conductors, Superconductors and Magnets: From Synthesis to Molecular Electronics (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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The book covers different aspects of the chemistry and physics of molecular materials, including organic synthesis of specific organic donors and ligands, organic metals and superconductors, molecule-based magnets, multiproperty materials and organic-inorganic hybrids. The 17 chapters are written by some of the most authoritative authors in their field. The two last chapters are devoted to molecular electronics and devices, in particular the achievements and potential for applications. An excellent work for all students and researchers in organic conductors, superconductors and molecule based magnets.

Transition Metal Oxides: Structure, Properties, and Synthesis of Ceramic Oxides

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Transition Metal Oxides: Structure, Properties, and Synthesis of Ceramic Oxides
C. N. R. Rao , and B. Raveau
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"Very useful for researchers in solid-state chemistry and as a textbook of advanced inorganic chemistry for PhD students." -Advanced Materials.

This book provides unified coverage of the structure, properties, and synthesis of transition metal oxides. Written by two world-class scientists, it offers both an excellent window on modern solid-state chemistry and a gateway to understanding the behavior of inorganic solids.

Scientists and advanced students in inorganic and solid-state chemistry, materials science, ceramics, and condensed matter science will welcome this updated Second Edition, which features new or expanded material on:
* Oxyanion derivatives of cuprates, mercury cuprates, ladder compounds, and new oxide systems
* Giant magnetoresistance, superconductivity, and nonlinear materials
* Recently developed synthetic strategies and examples, including soft chemistry routes

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* Hundreds of illustrations
* Helpful references.

Synthetic Methods of Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry: Literature, Laboratory Techniques, and Common Starting Materials (Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry (Theilheime)

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Synthetic Methods of Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry: Literature, Laboratory Techniques, and Common Starting Materials (Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry (Theilheime)

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Chemical Synthesis of Advanced Ceramic Materials (Chemistry of Solid State Materials)

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Chemical Synthesis of Advanced Ceramic Materials (Chemistry of Solid State Materials)
David Segal
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ASIN: 0521424186

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This is the first book devoted to the role of chemical synthetic techniques in the development of advanced ceramic materials. It bridges the gap between existing volumes dealing with the properties of ceramic materials (for example their mechanical properties) and those on chemistry.The author describes the variety of advanced ceramics and their conventional synthesis and fabrication.

New Directions in Solid State Chemistry: Structure, Synthesis, Properties, Reactivity and Materials Design (Cambridge Solid State Science Series)

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New Directions in Solid State Chemistry: Structure, Synthesis, Properties, Reactivity and Materials Design (Cambridge Solid State Science Series)
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao , and Jagannatha Gopalakrishnan
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This book presents the highlights of modern solid state chemistry, an emerging area of chemical science. In adopting a unified and up-to-date approach the authors take the reader to the very frontiers of the subject, which is concerned primarily with new methods of synthesis, identification and characterization of solids, and above all with new strategies for tailor-making materials with desirable and controllable properties. The eight chapters are devoted to structure, methods of characterization, preparative strategies, phase transitions, defects and non-stoichiometry, structure-property relations, materials design, and reactivity of solids. Each of these reflects the way solid state chemistry is growing today and brings out the flavour of the subject to show how it works. In addition, every chapter ends with a list of important references.

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Synthesis of Inorganic Materials
Ulrich Schubert , and Nicola Hüsing
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ASIN: 3527310371

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This second edition of a very well received advanced textbook retains the chemist's viewpoint in its comprehensive overview of methods for chemical synthesis of inorganic materials.
The second chapter now includes a section on biomorphic ceramics, while one on LEDs has been added to Chapter 3. Chapter 4 now includes a more thorough explanation of borate glasses, with certain sections being completely rearranged. In addition, Chapter 6 has been extensively revised, and a whole new sub-chapter added on coordination polymers.
The general principles and requirements are discussed for each method given, along with selected examples of technically applied materials, as well as the material properties and applications of the resulting products. Furthermore, numerous tables with further examples help in assessing the scope and limitation of the various methods and in choosing a suitable synthesis for any given problem.
Intended for both courses in inorganic chemistry and materials science, this volume is equally valuable for all researchers working on the borderline of these two disciplines.

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Very good indeed !.......2006-08-04

The book is a high level one and presents the new techniques and advances in the production of advanced inorganic materials trough new routes. It has very important data. It is an important tool for chemical and materials engineers.

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Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical evolution of the universe and biological development.

Este extraordinario libro aspira a popularizar el conocimiento sobre la evolución, a la vez que a ofrecer respuestas a los interrogantes más frecuentes que suscita. El texto pone énfasis en la importancia de entender los procesos evolutivos para aproximarnos a las conductas humanas actuales, incluidas las sociales.

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del Big Bang Al Homo Sapiens
Maria C. Di Sarli
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Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

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Immerse yourself in Annie Dillard's thoughts and unique use of language.......2007-09-17

This is a book of timeless essays regarding our journey through life. Enjoy.

From the essay - Sojourners.
"We are down here in time, where beauty grows. Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and wing.

The planet is less like an enclosed spaceship-spaceship earth-than it is like an exposed mangrove island beautiful and loose. We the people started small and have since accumulated a great and solacing muck of soil, of human culture. We are rooted in it; we are bearing it with us across nowhere. The word 'nowhere' is our cue: the consort of musicians strikes up, and we in the chorus stir and move and start twirling our hats. A mangrove island turns drift to dance. It creates its own soil as it goes, rocking over the salt sea at random, rocking day and night and round the sun, rocking round the sun and out toward east of Hercules."

teaching a stone to talk.......2007-04-30

Tis is some of the worst prose i've ever tried to read. It reminds me of those old Dick and Jane primers in which everything is repeated. Every paragraph could have been condensed effectively into a single sentence. I struggled to finish the first essay but then gave up. It didn't seem to be going anywhere. Sorry I wasted my penny on it.

Teaching a Stone to Talk - Good Read.......2006-03-12

Annie Dillard's work is most certainly her best with the exception of her Thoreau-esque first work. Her writing style and personality are captivating as she engages with a myriad of environments, from local lakes to the Galopagos Islands. As a naturalist writer, she explores the interaction between environments and individuals--the ways in which humanity and ecology play off one another. Fans of Joan Didion will also enjoy the personal feel of Dillard's work as well as the playful use of time and metaphor to capture the dynamism and eccentricity of everyday life. This work is a must-have for any lover/enthusiast of nature and everyone who appreciates flowing prose and lyrical description.

Everyone knows that stones can't talk..........2005-02-15

Poetry is poetry and prose is prose. In my opinion, the extent to which they are mixed is the extent to which the quality of each, with some exceptions, deteriorates. The problem I have with Dillard's writing is that she so freely mixes the two that one is left with either pretty, but obscure prose or overly structured narrative poetry. The problem isn't that Dillard is a poor writer, its rather that she doesn't have a clear vision of what her artful constructions mean. The book is all wings and no roots. It ends up being an excersise in sophistry that, one feels, sweeps the author along in its grand illusions as readily as it does the sensitive reader. I almost feel guilty pointing out the emptiness of it all.

From The Mundane To The Infinite ... And Back Again.......2004-10-05

This book truly is a well crafted and literary set of short stories; all or most of them being autobiographical. But the author does something special in this book. Her stories all center around the physical, mixed with the spiritual, mixed with the metaphysical, both alone and in concert, and finally, in the way they seem to co-exist, at least to her perception and observation.

The substance of her plot is more a substance of a progression of human feelings, than events. The events just happen, the reasons, she tells us, are personal, and mostly uncontrollable. But they ARE. They exist temporally, spiritually, physically, and metaphysically all at the same time. How each of us sees these things is a bit like Albert Einstein's General and Special Theories of Relativity. It all depends on how you come to the words of Annie Dillard, and how we interpret what she is saying. Whether you can relate to it out of your own experience, or whether you can live it vicariously through Dillard's writing matters not, what matters is the attitude and state of mind that one brings to the stories.

For readers interested in a mind expanding vision of reality, and non-reality, this book is beautifully written to take you to all these places. And it takes you through feelings, that almost every reader can relate to. It is worth every minute spent on it.

Teaching a Stone to Talk, Expeditions and Encounters

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Teaching a Stone to Talk, Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard
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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard
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Teaching a Stone to Talk : Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard
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Teaching a Stone to Talk : Expeditions and Encounters
Annie Dillard
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Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized.

These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small-town life. The country is blue-collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.

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Proulx Pulls No Punches.......2007-08-16

One thing you must realize about Annie Proulx--she pulls no punches. Heart Songs and Other Stories is absolutely no exception to the rule.

In this collection of short stories, Proulx give us characters that are not terribly intelligent, sophisticated, attractive, or even likable. But, what they are is real. We've all met at least one of the characters in this book, and that's the magic of Proulx's writing. She's not interested in creating a romantic hero; she's interested in telling real stories about real people ... who happen to be fictional. And, like so many of us, they have moments that aren't exactly shining.

I've read quite a bit of Proulx, and this book is one of her earlier efforts. It's not quite as stylistically refined as her later work, but it is still a magnificent read. The fact she is absolutely so willing to spit in beauty's face makes her no-nonsense stories and rough and tumble characters all the more beautiful.

If you haven't read any Proulx yet, you really should.

I can never get enough.......2006-11-10

Nothing will ever top Annie Proulx's THE SHIPPING NEWS, but everything this
talented woman writes is a jewel. Her short story collections are just
riveting. The stories stay with me long after I've read them. Her characters
are rich and real. Many people have said they reread her sentences because
they are so dazzling and breathtaking. It's true. I look forward to anything she
she writes, as her fiction is the best.

Images Abound in Proulx's Style.......2006-02-22

Along with the use of active voice, something else jumped out at me the moment I had read a few pages of Proulx. She's loaded with images. Her images come mostly from apt and surprising similes. (That's not email "smilies.") As we learned in school, a simile is a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds--usually formed with 'like' or 'as.'

Her similes bring to life her descriptions of people and enhance the concrete "feel" of things and places in her stories. The first sentence of the book has two of them, maybe not the best she has to offer, but two that immediately create images that pile up as she goes along: "Hawkheel's face was as finely wrinkled as grass-dried linen, his thin back bent like a branch weighted with snow." Another reviewer (Library Journal) has pointed out how she refers to a character as "thin as a folded dollar bill, her hand as narrow and cold as a trout." Maybe these images account for some of the appeal her style has for many readers. I for one find them satisfying and stimulating, here in the short stories even more than in Shipping News.

Brutal, Passionate Stories.......2005-04-29

If you want to read short stories about mad, cantakerous and passionate characters, read this collection of short stories. Annie Proulx astonished us with her remakable and refreshingly original novel, "The Shipping News," and while she has stated that she is not as proficient in writing short stories as in writing novels, I disagree. I could not put down these stories of the brutal and grotesque rural landscape, and none of the stories disappoints. I look forward to reading her other collections, "Close Range: Wyoming Stories" and "Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2." Ms. Proulx is fast becoming one of America's leading authors of fiction.

Gritty stories told in flinty-sharp prose!.......2004-07-30

Excellent collection of short stories by one of the very best short story writers, set in a rural community where poor country folk struggle to eke out a living. Tough, gritty stories with a deep-rooted connection to the land that give full play to the author's gift for capturing rugged, rural landscape in all its moods. Hunting and fishing provides an unusual backdrop for some of the human dramas played out: revenge, ill-will, greed, infidelity, passion and jealously, violence and death are all strong presences in these stringent stories so don't be misled by the tame hunting and fishing reference. Annie Proulx creates a cast of vivid characters - eccentric, downtrodden, down and out, malicious and conniving - bringing them alive in the space of a striking image or phrase.

A strong theme threading through several stories is the clash of values of two very different worlds: the world of wealthy outsiders from the city with their flash guns, flash hunting gear, flash cars, flash houses and unwelcome improvements impinging on the land, customs and traditions of the poor rural community, the actions of the outsiders often appearing naive, clumsy, even foolish. My personal favourite is Stone City: a hunter stumbles on a remote, derelict farm high up on the snow-covered wooded hillsides but senses an atmosphere of evil pervading the abandoned ruin, Stone City, once owned by the Stone family, old man Stone and his brood of wild, unruly offspring. Gradually, more shocking revelations about the Stones and the grim past of Stone City come to light. Try also Annie Proulx's other superb short story collection of Wyoming stories, Close Range. Both books highly recommended!

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Heart Songs and Other Stories

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Heart Songs & Other Stories 1ST Edition
E Annie Proulx
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Heart Songs and Other Stories
E. Annie (Signed). Proulx
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