Supramolecular Assembly via Hydrogen Bonds I (Structure and Bonding)

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The area of macromolecular and supramolecular science and engineering has gained substantial interest and importance during the last decade and many applications can be envisioned in the future. The rapid developments in this interdisciplinary area justify a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in the research of materials and processes that is given in this monograph. This monograph is based primarily on synthetic architectures and systems covered by the contents of selected plenary and invited lectures delivered at the 1st International Symposium on Macro- and Supramolecular Architectures and Materials (MAM-01): Biological and Synthetic Systems, which was held from 11-14 April 2001 on the international campus of the Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology (K-JIST) in Kwangju, South Korea. In addition, it contains several complementing contributions in this novel field of science dealing with synthetic architectures and represents a unique compilation of reviewed research accounts of the in-depth knowledge of macromolecular and supramolecular materials and processes. It comprises 22 pioneering chapters written by 64 renowned experts from 13 different countries.

Dendrimers (Topics in Current Chemistry)

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Dendrimers (Topics in Current Chemistry)

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Dendrimers are a class of highly branched molecules that combine the properties of polymers and small discrete molecules. One classified among the exotic molecules of chemistry, dendrimers have attracted considerable attention in recent years, as their unique host/guest properties and their capability of being functionalized in the periphery as well in the core have led to new materials with a great potential for applications. This volume presents the state of art in this blossoming area, written by pioneers in the fields. Covering the synthetic, supramolecular, stereochemical, host/guest and polymer chemistry of dendritic and hyperbranched molecules, this volume explains both theoretical and practical aspects, including chirality reactivity, mechanism, material properties and biological relevance.

Design of Molecular Materials: Supramolecular Engineering

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Design of Molecular Materials: Supramolecular Engineering
Jacques Simon , and Pierre Bassoul
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This timely and fascinating book is destined to be recognised as THE book on supramolecular engineering protocols. It covers this sometimes difficult subject in an approachable form, gathering together information from many sources.

Supramolecular chemistry, which links organic chemistry to materials science, is one of the fastest growth areas of chemistry research. This book creates a correlation between the structure of single molecules and the physical and chemical properties of the resulting materials. By making systematic changes to the component molecules, the resulting solid can be engineered for optimum performance. There is a clearly written development from synthesis of designer molecules to properties of solids and further on to devices and complex materials systems, providing guidelines for mastering the organisation of these systems.

Topics covered include:

Systemic chemistry
Molecular assemblies
Notions of symmetry
Supramolecular engineering
Principe de Curie
Organisation in molecular media
Molecular semiconductors
Industrial applications of molecular materials

This superb book will be invaluable to researchers in the field of supramolecular materials and also to students and teachers of the subject.

Metal-Containing and Metallosupramolecular Polymers and Materials (Acs Symposium Series)

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Metal-Containing and Metallosupramolecular Polymers and Materials (Acs Symposium Series)

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The last few years have brought a dramatic boom in the area of metal-containing systems and materials, both in supramolecular and polymer chemistry as well as nanoscience. Besides synthetic advances, a major increase in knowledge regarding metallopolymer characterization has been apparent. Moreover, recently a growing interest in the application of these materials can be seen. Potential applications are identified in the areas of smart or intelligent materials, systems with special photochemical and photophysical properties (such as LEDs or solar cells), nanoscience, sensory materials, as well as materials with very special thermal and mechanical properties. This symposium series book covers the complete range of metal-containing polymers and materials by first-hand articles from the world-leading groups. These include design, synthesis, characterization as well as selected applications.

Nanotechnology Research Directions: IWGN Workshop Report - Vision for Nanotechnology in the Next Decade

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Nanotechnology Research Directions: IWGN Workshop Report - Vision for Nanotechnology in the Next Decade

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ASIN: 0792362209

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This book documents recent dramatic breakthroughs and prospects for even more important future developments in a wide variety of fields and applications of science and technology related to `nanotechnology', all involving the control of matter on the nanometer-length scale, that is, at the level of atoms, molecules, and supramolecular structures. As the twenty-first century unfolds, nanotechnology's impact on the health, wealth, and security of the world's people is expected to be at least as significant as the combined influences in this century of antibiotics, the integrated circuit, and human-made polymers. The book covers fundamental scientific issues for nanotechnology and reviews progress in the development of the necessary tools for nanotechnology research and applications (e.g. theory, modeling and simulation, experimental methods, and instruments such as scanning probe microscopes). It also surveys a wide variety of current and potential application areas of nanotechnology, including: dispersions, coatings, and large surface area structures; nanodevices, nanoelectronics, and nanosensors; materials science and applications of bulk nanostructured materials with novel properties; biology, medicine, and healthcare; and energy, chemicals, and environmental science. The book incorporates the views of leading experts from U.S. government, academia, and the private sector. It reflects the consensus reached at a workshop held in January 1999, and detailed in contributions submitted thereafter by members of the U.S. science and engineering community. It describes challenges that are posed and opportunities that are offered by nanotechnology and outlines the steps that must be taken in order for humanity to benefit from the advances that are envisioned. This emphasizes three crucial areas: developing a balanced research and development infrastructure, advancing critical research areas, and nurturing the scientific and technical workforce of the next century.

Supramolecular and Colloidal Structures in Biomaterials and Biosubstrates

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Supramolecular and Colloidal Structures in Biomaterials and Biosubstrates

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Supramolecular Materials and Technologies

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Supramolecular Materials and Technologies

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Perspectives in Supramolecular Chemistry relates recent developments and new exciting approaches in supramolecular chemistry. The series covers all areas from theoretical and modelling aspects through organic and inorganic chemistry and biochemistry to materials, solid-state and polymer sciences reflecting the many and varied applications of supramolecular structures in modern chemistry.

From the early days of supramolecular chemistry the field has been associated with possible applications. This is not surprising as the design of new molecules, and later of assemblies of molecules, is often function-driven. Now, after three decades of supramolecular chemistry, David Reinhoudt has brought together a collection of reviews to reflect on the applications that have actually been achieved. The first applications in molecular recognition are now established technologies in analytical chemistry, separation science and medicine. More recently, developments have taken place in material design and these concepts are also discussed here. Contents

Self-Assembling Systems on Scales from Nanometers to Millimeters: Design and Discovery
Dendritic Architectures
Supramolecular Structures with Macromolecules
Chemosensors: Synthetic Receptors in Analytical Sensing Applications
Selective Ion Recognition with Durable Sensors
Ion Separations in Membrane and Solid Phase Extraction Systems
Porphyrin- and Expanded Pophyrin-Based Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents

Supramolecular Materials and Technologies illustrates the achievements and advances that supramolecular chemistry has made in many fields from organic chemistry to materials science and from analytical chemistry to molecular biology.

Supramolecular Organization & Materials Design

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Supramolecular Organization & Materials Design

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ASIN: 0521662400

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Supramolecular chemistry deals with the design, synthesis, and study of molecular structures held together by non-covalent interactions. Structures of this type are ubiquitous in nature and are frequently used as blueprints for the design of synthetic equivalents. This reference demonstrates the seminal importance of supramolecular chemistry and self-organization in the design and synthesis of novel organic materials, inorganic materials, and biomaterials. With contributions from leading workers in the field, the book shows how the bottom-up approach of supramolecular chemistry can be used not only to synthesize new materials, but to operate specific molecular devices as well.

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This astonishing book shows how new ideas, creatures and other complex entities originate and, in the process, provides a guided tour of the back roads of the universe. Beginnings also offers new perspective into the anti-complexity reductionism that inflates the programs of writers like Richard Dawkins and advocates of creationism/intelligent-design. This may be the most important book since Darwins Origins of the Species.

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"[Henderson] has made it his mission over the last thirty-odd years to defy the dumbing down of literature and the culture at large."—Kirkus Reviews

This edition of the long-honored anthology of small-press fiction, essays, and poetry marks its third decade, an amazing feat of survival and excellence.

Like previous editions, The Pushcart Prize XXX presents over sixty selections picked from hundreds of little magazines and presses with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. In the Pushcart tradition, this fascinating collection combines the work of today's luminaries with a host of new talents, creating an exciting assembly of diverse voices.

Since 1976, The Pushcart Prize has been "the single best measure of the state of affairs in American literature today," according to the New York Times Book Review. Many of today's celebrated writers received their first recognition in The Pushcart Prize, which over the years has tracked small-press enthusiasms from traditional to experimental in an unsurpassed eclectic gathering.

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WWIII New Mexico Style

A Very Good Read

A delightful read about the day a man began irrigating his father's beanfield

A really great book

little known gem -- as good as the movie (or better)

The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel
John Nichols
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The Magic Journey: A Novel

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If Mountains Die: A New Mexico Memoir

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ASIN: 0805063749

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Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly ter, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.

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WWIII New Mexico Style.......2007-07-13

When Joe Mondragon illegally irrigates a puny beanfield, he starts WWIII and becomes the unwitting, reluctant symbol of this battle between the haves and the have nots. The book is absolutely hilarious with its wry yet rich descriptions of the people and the cultures clashing in Milagro, NM. But underneath, the end is near and everyone knows it, is resigned to it, but will fight to hold on for as long as possible. I've read this book several times and have come away with something new every time. Nichols' description of Kyril Montana's initial stealthy and secret foray into Milagro will always hold a special place in my heart. Que viva, Snuffy!

A Very Good Read.......2006-08-09

I absolutely loved this book - a great story and excellently written.

A delightful read about the day a man began irrigating his father's beanfield.......2006-06-14

I finally got around to reading this novel whilst on summer vacation (it was in the free pile at the condo) and am so glad that I did.

Nichols engages the reader from the first page, with a blend of magical realism, social commentary, satire, and good old fashioned story telling.

Jose "Joe" Mandragon sets in motion a variety of forces in the state of New Mexico when he irrigates his family legacy, a miniscule beanfield left to him by his father. With that simple act, centuries-old tensions between rancher and farmer, Mexican and Anglo, subsistence living and the cash economy, come to a head.

What could have been a dull exercise in race relations, regional history, and economic theory, is instead brought to wonderful, earthy life in this charming novel that will make you think, laugh, and perhaps even shed a tear or two.

Definitely worth reading!

A really great book.......2006-05-26

This is an excellent book. Humorous, yet very "real". Well developed characters, and an entertaining plot. Very Americana. I can't imagine anyone not enjoying this book. I also can't understand why more people haven't reviewed this book online. It's a treasure.

little known gem -- as good as the movie (or better).......2006-02-16

i was surprised to see that noone has reviewed this underappreciated book. this book channels john steinbeck, tom robbins and jack kerouac in a funny, wise, captivating tale of a mexican-american community.

A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country

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In Harmony With the Earth.

A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country
John Treadwell Nichols
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In Harmony With the Earth........2005-03-14

"An albatross around his neck" John Nichols called his 1974 novel "The Milagro Beanfield War" in an afterword to the book's 1994 anniversary edition, because he felt that particularly after "Milagro" had, over multiple obstacles, been made into a 1988 movie directed by Robert Redford, it had eclipsed much of his other work; be it the two other novels in his "New Mexico Trilogy" ("The Magic Journey," 1978, and "The Nirvana Blues," 1981), his other novels, from 1965's "Sterile Cuckoo" to "A Ghost in the Music" (1979), "Conjugal Bliss" (1994) and beyond, and his extensive nonfiction work, much of which, like his novels, deals with life and the love of the land in his beloved northern New Mexico.

"A Fragile Beauty" is part companion volume to the "Milagro" novel(s) and movie, part introduction to Nichols's world, in which the movie's release had created new interest. As such, it follows prior works such as "If Mountains Die" (1979, with photographs by the author's friend William Davis), the memoir "The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn" (1982), Nichols's joint piece with Edward Abbey ("In Praise of Mountain Lions," 1984), as well as "On the Mesa" (1986). As in the 1982 memoir and in several other pieces ("The Sky's the Limit," 1990, and "Keep It Simple," 1992), Nichols himself not only supplied the text but also the photography; chronicling his New Mexico neighbors' extraordinary spirit and powers of subsistence, and the unique natural charms of the state which, not without reason, bears the name "The Land of Enchantment."

In an introductory essay, extracts of which were originally published as an article in the May 1987 edition of "American Film Magazine," the author talks about the years of his political formation, and his arrival and early experience in New Mexico, particularly his work as a reporter and editor with a now long-defunct newspaper called "The New Mexico Review," and his support of the fight for a fair and responsible water distribution system, which eventually fed into "Milagro;" as well as about the novel's tenuous transformation into multiple draft screenplays and, eventually, a movie. But mostly, "A Fragile Beauty" is a celebration of life on the mesa; of the humble and humbling majesty of its mountains, endless skies, seasons, storms, sun and snow, sagebrush, flowers, cottonwoods, pinons, forests, golden asters and aspens, rivulets, gullies, gorges, lakes, ponds, trout, lizards, dragonflies, coyotes, wolves, birds, horses, cattle, and sheep ... and of Nichols's friends and neighbors: Justin Locke, Julian Ledoux, the Martinezes, Charley Reynolds, Mike Kimmel, Doug Terry, Isabel Vigil and her daughter Evelyn, Pacomio Mondragon, and the folks of the Tres Rios Association. (No, I never met any of these people in person. But the way Nichols talks about them, he makes you feel like you know them just this much - and of course you have met them and many others, too, if you have read "Milagro.")

"Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to everything else in the universe," Nichols quotes John Muir, and he adds, "I have always kept that in mind while writing about the land, people, heartaches of northern New Mexico. To extoll the fragile beauty of the Taos Valley in words, photographs, or in a film, is to sing the praises of, and to demand consideration for, the entire earth." And Robert Redford writes in his foreword: "These mountains and their attendant valleys belong to the spirits of the dead and the cultures that have followed in their footsteps. They belong to the tourist only in passing and in pictures. ... John Nichols understands this, himself much like the land he treasures and stays pledged to keep. ... His may be a windmill fight. But it is a noble one, and I salute it."

What could I, a mere tourist to the region, possibly have to add? Surely not much that these two, and particularly John Nichols, haven't expressed with much greater skill in one way or another. But I think I can claim just about enough familiarity with northern New Mexico to say that I share their concern for its preservation; and upon each new visit, my innate response to the region's extraordinary natural beauty is still very much that of my very first stay there as a teenager: to me, as to then-sixteen-year-old John Nichols, who first spent a summer there in 1957, this is still "dream territory;" "a piece of terrain wild and beautiful enough to be commensurate with [my] capacity for wonder," as Nichols puts it, citing F. Scott Fitzgerald. I don't need to take anything other than photographs back home with me. But every time I return, I hope that my favorite piece of the Land of Enchantment will still be there the way I remember it, and every time I see changes - not all of them for the better. So, yes, Mr. Nichols, your defense of the area does speak to me, too; and for the future inhabitants of Milagro Country, for the future Joe Mondragons, Seferino Pachecos and Mercedes Reals, as much as for the rest of us, I hope the region will be able to preserve its beauty and its community values over the onslaught of commerce.

"We are touched by magic wands. For just a fraction of our day life is perfect, and we are absolutely happy and in harmony with the earth. The feeling passes much too quickly. But the memory - and the anticipation of other miracles - sustains us in the battle indefinitely." John Nichols, "A Fragile Beauty."

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The Milagro Beanfield War A Novel

Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart & Winston
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