List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

The Basis for the Synthesis, Design and Optimization of Thermal Separation Processes

J. Gmehling

Environmental Pollution

S.I. Sandler

Colloidal Systems

J.E. Desnoyers

Microemulsions

M. Kahlweit

Liquid Mixture Adsorption on Solids

P. Brauer

M. Heuchel

Applications of Adsorption by Porous Solids

F. Rouquerol

J. Rouquerol

K.S.W. Sing

Electrolyte Systems

J. Barthel

W. Kunz

Supercritical Fluid Extraction

A.A. Clifford

Supercritical Water

E.U. Franck

H. Weingartner

Energy Science and Industry: the Petrochemicals Business

S.P. Goodwin

Electrochemical Synthesis from Molten Salts: an Application of Chemical Thermodynamics to the Synthesis of Refractory Compounds

G. Kaptay

E. Berecz

Nuclear Applications

A.D. Pelton

Separation Processes Using Non-porous Membrance

A. Heintz

R.N. Lichtenthaler

Thermodynamics and Microgravity: What Can We Learn?

I. Egry

C. Nieto De Castro

Experiments?--No Thank You!

U.K. Deiters

M. Hloucha

K. Leonhard

Solutions and Blends of Polymers

J.P.M. Trusler

Polymer-containing Mixtures in Flow

J.S. Higgins

R. Horst

B.A. Wolf

Advanced Engineering Materials

R.D. Weir

Amorphous Materials and Their Elucidation by Adiabatic Calorimetry

H. Suga

M. Oguni

Metallic Glasses

L. Battezzati

Food Science: Short-and Long-term Trends

A. Schiraldi

Biology

I. Lamprecht

A New Light on Cell Biology from an Old Lamp

R.B. Kemp

Enzyme-catalysed Reactions

R.N. Goldberg

N. Kishore

Y.B. Tewari

Thermodynamic Prediction of the Relative Stabilities of Hyperthermophilic Enzymes

H.C. Helgeson

Calorimetry and Medicine

M. Monti

I. Wadso

Dielectric Materials

V.A. Durov

Index