Key Engineering Materials : Interdisciplinary Concepts and Research

This book provides innovative chapters on the growth of educational, scientific, and industrial research activities among chemists, biologists, and polymer and chemical engineers and provides a medium for mutual communication between international academia and the industry. It presents significant research and reviews reporting new methodologies and important applications in the fields of industrial chemistry, industrial polymers and biotechnology as well as includes the latest coverage of chemical databases and the development of new computational methods and efficient algorithms for chemical software and polymer engineering.

François Kajzar, PhD, is currently Associate Research Director at the University of Angers in France. He has taught and lectured at Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland, the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Kraków; and National Research Council - Institute of Structure of Matter (ISM-CNR), Bolognia, Italy, among other places. He was the Research Director and Senior Scientist at the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, France. He has won numerous awards for his work and has written over 450 papers, book and book chapters, and conference presentations. He is also the editor of several journals and is on the editorial review bards of several others. His specialization fields include nonlinear optics, materials research, biomaterials, and biophotonics.

Dr. Eli M. Pearce was President of American Chemical Society. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Science and Art at Brooklyn Polytechnic University in New York, as well as a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering. He was Director of the Polymer Research Institute, also in Brooklyn. At present, he consults for the Polymer Research Institute. A prolific author and researcher, he edited the Journal of Polymer Science (Chemistry Edition) for 25 years and was an active member of many professional organizations.

N. А. Тurovskij, PhD, is currently Associate Professor, Physical Chemistry Department, Donetsk National University, Donetsk, Ukraine. He is the author of more than 200 scientific works and six author's certificates on invention. He is a supervisor of four candidate's theses, head of two scientific projects of the International Scientific Fund and two projects of the International Soros Science Education Program. Dr. Тurovskij has worked in the L. M. Litvinenko Institute of Physical Organic and Coal Chemistry National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in job titles of the junior research fellow and senior scientific employee. His research interests include kinetics, structural chemistry, and molecular modeling of the supramolecular reactions of organic peroxides.

Omari Vasilii Mukbaniani, DSc, is Professor and Director of Macromolecular Chemistry Department of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also the Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. For several years he was a member of advisory board of the Journal Proceedings of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Chemical Series), contributing editor of the journal Polymer News and the Polymers Research Journal. His research interests include polymer chemistry, polymeric materials and chemistry of organosilicon compounds. He is an author more than 360 publication, 8 books, 3 monographs, and 10 inventions.