Product Description: This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the life-limiting mechanisms of geosynthetics, the methods available to test and assess lifetime, and the means by which durability can be improved. It provides engineers with the information they need on the durability lifetime, bridging the knowledge gap between them and polymer scientists...read more

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Synthetic fibres are widely used for many applications, with their colour being of major commercial importance. This extensively referenced book provides a comprehensive account of the physical chemistry of the dyeing of synthetic fibres and microfibres.

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Product Description: "Provides comprehensive coverage of the synthesis, analysis, application, and chemical and physical properties of amphoteric surfactants--furnishing an up-to-date account of important new developments. Details the application of amphoteric surfactants in personal care products and household and industrial detergents...read more

Product Description: Describes the current status and potential of synthetic chemistry designed to use and to generate fewer hazardous substances. Examines new techniques for carrying out transformations in environmentally benign solvent systems. Presents research results on the replacement of hazardous feedstocks with biologically derived, innocuous feedstocks; of hazardous reagents with visible light; and of phosgene, benzene, and halogens in a variety of industrially important reactions...read more

Product Description: There has been a scarcity of authoritative, published information on the direct reactions of silicon. Nevertheless, the need for up-to-date information on the reactions and their silane products persists across a broad range of scientists...read more

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Product Description: This new book presents an overview of the use of oxidase and related enzymes as reagents in organic synthesis. It is largely concerned with oxidative bioconversion procedures and includes a chapter on the techniques of bioconversions, along with a discussion of new developments in this area...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This stimulating monograph is a much needed response to the increasing use of biocatalysts in organic synthesis. In over 300 well-referenced pages, it * reviews in detail applications and other aspects of the most widely used enzymes (e...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book systematizes the considerable literature that has been written on zeolites and adsorption, and zeolite analysis in relation to the structural and chemical modification of zeolite crystals.