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Advances in Polymer Science Advances in Polymer Science J.‑L. Burgot, Universite de Rennes, France Ionic Equilibria in Analytical Series editors: A. Abe, A.‑C. Albertsson, K. Dusek, Series editors: A. Abe, A.‑C. Albertsson, K. Dusek, S. Kobayashi, K.‑S. Lee, G. Wegner, I. Manners, S. Kobayashi, K.‑S. Lee, G. Wegner, I. Manners, Chemistry B. Voit, M. Möller, T. E. Long, W. H. Jeu, L. Leibler, B. Voit, M. Möller, T. E. Long, W. H. Jeu, L. Leibler, E. M. Terentjev, U. Wiesner, M. J. Vicent, J. Genzer E. M. Terentjev, U. Wiesner, M. J. Vicent, J. Genzer Contents Volume 245 Volume 246 Solvents: Composition of solutions.- Thermody- namics and equilibrium.- Activities and activity B. Rieger, TU Munich, Germany; A. Künkel, BASF R. Jayakumar, S. Nair, Amrita Center for coefficients.- Definitions of Acids and Bases / SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany; G. W. Coates, Cornell Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Cochin, India Strengths of Acids and Bases.- Calculation of pH University, Ithaka, NY, USA; R. Reichardt, BASF (Eds) of aqueous solutions.- Buffer solutions.- Some SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany; E. Dinjus, Institute General Points Concerning Titrations.- Neu- of Research and Technology (IKFT), Biomedical Applications of tralization or Acid-Base Indicators.- Acid-base Eggenstein, Germany; T. A. Zevaco, Karlsruhe Polymeric Nanofibers Titration Curves.- Acid-base Titrations: Further Institute of Technology, Germany (Eds) theoretical studies.- Acid-base Reactions and Contents Chemical Analysis.- Generalities on Oxidation- Synthetic Biodegradable Multiscale Fibrous Scaffolds in Regenerative Reduction.- Redox Reactions and Electrochemical Polymers Medicine, by Sowmya Srinivasan, R. Jayakumar, Cells.- Predicting Redox Reactions.- Predicting K. P. Chennazhi, Erica J. Levorson, Antonios G. Redox Reactions by Graphical Means.- Calcula- Salen Metal Complexes as Catalysts for the Syn- Mikos and Shantikumar V. Nair.- Stem Cells and tion of Equilibrium Potentials of Solutions Con- thesis of Polycarbonates from Cyclic Ethers and Nanostructures for Advanced Tissue Regenera- taining Several Redox Couples: General Consider- Carbon Dioxide, by Donald J. Darensbourg.- Ma- tion, by Molamma P. Prabhakaran, J. Venugopal, ations Concerning Redox Titrations.- A Study of terial Properties of Poly(Propylene Carbonates), Laleh Ghasemi-Mobarakeh, Dan Kai Guorui Jin Some Redox Titration Curves.- Oxydoreductim- by Gerrit. A. 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Features A number of food engineering operations, in The question whether molecular primitives can 7 Covers applications in all areas chemistry which heat is not used as a preserving factor, prove to be real alternatives to contemporary including synthetic and analytical chemis- have been employed and are applied for prepara- semiconductor means or effective supplements try 7 Features the use of green solvents in a se- tion (cleaning, sorting, etc.), conversion (milling, extending greatly possibilities of information lection of chromatographic methods 7 Contains agglomeration, etc.) or preservation (irradiation, technologies is addressed. Molecular primitives a review of recent literature high pressure processing, pulsed electric fields, and circuitry for information processing devices etc.) purposes in the food industry. are also discussed. Investigations in molecular Contents based computing devices were initiated in the Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents: Progress and Features early 1970s in the hopes for an increase in the Prospects.- Ionic Liquids as Green Solvents for 7 Fills the gap in the topic of alternative or non- integration level and processing speed. Real prog- Alkylation and Acylation.- Ionic Liquids as Green conventional food processing technologies 7 Fo- ress proved unfeasible into the 1980´s. However, Solvents for Glycosylation Reactions.- Ionic cus on non-thermal food engineering, not on all recently, important and promising results were Liquid Crystals.- Application of Ionic Liquids in food processing technologies 7 Includes relevant achieved. The elaboration of operational 160-kilo- Extraction and Separation of Metals.- Potential for non-thermal food engineering operations bit molecular electronic memory patterned 1011 Hydrogen Sulfide Removal Using Ionic Liquid Sol- bits per square centimeter in the end of 90´s were Contents vents.- Biocatalytic Reactions in Ionic Liquid Me- the first timid steps of information processing fur- dia.- Ionic Liquids/Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Part I. Introductory Aspects.- 1. Classification of ther development. Subsequent advances beyond as Advantageous Biphasic Systems in Enzymatic Food Processing and Preservation Operations.- 2. these developments are presented and discussed. Synthesis.- Ionic Liquids as Lubricants.- Stability Common Preliminary Operations: Cleaning, Sort- and Activity of in Ionic Liquids.- Sup- ing, Grading.- 3. Materials Handling in the Food Features ported Ionic Liquid Membranes: Preparation, Industry.- 4. Size Reduction.- 5. Size Enlarge- 7 Compact and concise overview of the field of Stability and Applications.- Application of Ionic ment.- 6. Mixing and Emulsification.- 7. Separa- Molecular Computers 7 Potential and limits of Liquids in Multi-Component Reactions.- Ionic tion Techniques for Solids and Suspensions.- 8. the field are presented to the reader Liquids as Binary Mixtures with Selected Mo- Membrane Separations.- 9. Electromagnetic lecular Solvents, Reactivity Characterisation and Radiation: Ultraviolet Energy Treatment.- 10. Contents Molecular-Microscopic Properties.- Ionic liquids Ionizing Radiation: Irradiation.- 11. Ultrasound in -Nanotechnology: Origin and Development.- as Green Solvents for the Oxidation of Alcohols.- Food Preservation.- 12. Pulsed Light Technology.- Computer Technology and Nanotechnology.-Mo- Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with 13. High-Voltage Pulsed Electric Fields.- 14. Ultra- lecular Element Base of Computational Devices.- Ionic Liquids.- Room Temperature Ionic Liquids High Hydrostatic Pressure.- 15. Protective and Molecular Element Base of Computational (RTILs) Versus Volatile Organic Compounds Preserving Food Packaging.- 16. Other Methods. Devices.-Chemical Diffusion-Reaction Media (VOCs) in Organic . The Require- and Artificial Intelligence.-Diffusion-Reaction Fields of interests ment of a Careful Comparison.- Organic Ionic Processor: Possibilities and Limitations.-Self-Or- Liquids: Ultimate Green Solvents in Organic Chemistry/Food Science, general; Biomedical ganization as a General Principle of Information Synthesis. Engineering; Biochemistry, general Processing in Distributed Dynamic Systems.-New Ideas....New Opportunities?-What Next? Fields of interests Target groups Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Graduate Fields of interests Nanochemistry; Biomaterials; Processor Archi- Environmental Chemistry; Organic Chemistry Product category tectures Target groups Monograph Research Target groups Research Product category Monograph Product category Monograph

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E. Sansinenea, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma Z. Shuai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; X.‑Y. Sun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland de Puebla, México (Ed) L. Wang, University of Mons, Belgium; C. Song, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China of Plakortide Bacillus thuringiensis E and Biomimetic Synthesis of Biotechnology Theory of Charge Transport in Carbon Electronic Materials Plakortone B In his thesis, Xiaoyu Sun conducts the first Mechanism of charge transport in organic solids total synthesis of all possible stereoisomers of Contents has been an issue of intensive interests and debates plakortide E and also confirms the absolute Index Of Contributors.- Preface.- PART I BACIL- for over 50 years, not only because of the applica- configuration of natural plakortide E. Xiaoyu Sun LUS THURINGIENSIS: AN ENVIRONMEN- tions in printing electronics, but also because of subsequently converts Plakortide E methyl ester TALLY SAFETY ALTERNATIVE.- 1 Discovery the great challenges in understanding the elec- to plakortone B in a biomimetic conversion. Con- and description of Bacillus thuringiensis.- 2 tronic processes in complex systems. With the fast struction and functionalization of cyclic peroxides Bacillus thuringiensis applications in agriculture.- developments of both electronic structure theory are notoriously difficult due to the very low O-O 3 Risk Assessment of Bt Transgenic Crops.- 4 Use and the computational technology, the dream of bond dissociation energy. Plaktoride E is isolated and efficacy of Bt compared to less environmen- predicting the charge mobility is now gradually from the Jamaican marine sponge platorits hali- tally safe alternatives .- 5 Protein Engineering of becoming a reality. This volume describes recent chondrioides and contains a five-membered per- Bacillus thuringiensis δ-Endotoxins .- PART II progresses in Prof. Shuai’s group in developing oxide ring, with oxygen atoms linked to tertiary GENETICS OF BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS.- 6 computational tools to assess the intrinsic carrier C4 and C6 centers. The methodology used for Evolution of the Bacillus cereus group.- 7 Bacillus mobility for organic and carbon materials at the synthesizing highly substituted cyclic peroxides is thuringiensis genetics and phages - from trans- first-principles level. According to the electron- novel and useful, and not only extends the field of duction and sequencing to recombineering .- 8 phonon coupling strength, the charge transport Pd-catalyzed reactions, but also provides a conve- Conjugation in Bacillus thuringiensis: insights into mechanism is classified into three different nient synthetic approach for the preparation of the the plasmids exchange process.- 9 Shuttle vectors categories, namely, the localized hopping model, 1,2-dioxolanes series. Plakortide E and plakortone of Bacillus thuringiensis .- 10 Construction and the extended band model, and the polaron model. B are bioactive, which means that the synthetic application in plasmid vectors of Bacillus cereus For each of them, a corresponding theoretical ap- studies on them and their analogs are pivotal in group .- 11 Recombination in Bacillus thuringi- proach is developed and implemented into typical drug discovery. ensis.- 12 Genetic improvement of Bt strains and examples. development of novel biopesticides.- PART III Features BT AS BIOPESTICIDE: APPLICATIONS IN Contents 7 Nominated by the Chinese University of Hong BIOTECHNOLOGY.- 13 Genetically Modified Introduction.- Hopping Mechanism.- Polaron Kong as an outstanding PhD thesis 7 Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Biopesticides .- 14 Bacillus Mechanism.- Deformation Potential Theory.- Out- and useful methodology for synthesizing highly thuringiensis Recombinant Insecticidal Protein look. substituted cyclic peroxides 7 Extends the field Production.- 15 Bt crops: past and future .- 16 A of Pd-catalyzed reactions Review of the Food Safety of Bt Crops.- PART IV Fields of interests Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Opti- OTHER BACILLUS SPECIES IN BIOTECHNOL- Contents cal and Electronic Materials; Semiconductors OGY.- 17 The most important Bacillus species Introduction.- Results and Discussion.- Conclu- in biotechnology.- 18 Secondary metabolites of Target groups sion.- Experimental Section.- References.- Appen- Bacillus: potentials in biotechnology.- 19 Future Research dix I.- Appendix II. challenges and prospects of Bacillus thuringiensis. Product category Fields of interests Fields of interests Brief Organic Chemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; Ca- Biotechnology; Applied Microbiology; Life Sci- talysis ences, general Target groups Target groups Research Research Product category Product category Monograph Contributed volume

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