Platinum Group Metals in Phase Transfer Catalysis Electrochemical Destruction of Toxic Organic Industrial Waste The Faraday Lecture on Platinum Noble Metals in Medicine The Effect of Fuel and Oil Additives on Automobile Catalyst Performance Protective Coatings for Turbine Components Meter for Food Samples Recovering Spent Autocatalysts World Developments of Fuel Cells A New Process for Direct C...

Phage display of a wide range of polypeptides has been increasingly used to identify novel molecules with useful binding properties for research, medical and industrial applications. Recent developments include methods for the selection of stabilized variants of a protein, the selection of regulatable enzymes and promising strategies for the selection and evolution of protein catalysts.

I t is now fully accepted that industrial processes involving particulate systems are in the mainstream of chemical engineering practice, research and education. A scientific approach to particle processing implies the study and development of means for characterizing particles, the primary characteristic being particle size and distribution. This paper, by members of the EFCE working party on ...

In computational mechanics, it is often difficult to test research innovations on industrial problems because of software limitations: many of the commercial finite element packages commonly used in the industry lack flexibility and openness, whereas in-house research developments are usually very specific and may lack features required for “real-life” industrial simulations. Non-intrusive coup...

The purpose of this review is to discuss the impact of nanocarriers administered by pulmonary route to treat and to diagnose respiratory and non respiratory diseases. Indeed, during the past 10 years, the removal of chlorofluorocarbon propellants from industrial and household products intended for the pulmonary route has lead to the developments of new alternative products. Amongst these ones, ...

The present paper extends the literature investigating key drivers leading certain patents to exert a stronger influence on the subsequent technological developments (inventions) than other ones. We investigated six key determinants, as (i) the use of scientific knowledge, (ii) the breadth of the technological base, (iii) the existence of collaboration in patent development, (iv) the number of ...

N MODERN industry, productivity, quality, reliability and safety heavily depend on the performance of the applied sensors. They ensure an interface between the production equipment and the surrounding world, and also provide a feedback for the result of the executed operations. Thus, sensors can be found in extremely wide range of applications and play a fairly important role in industrial syst...

oday, we are witnessing important new developments that go beyond “traditional” chemical engineering. Engineers at many universities and industrial research centers are working on novel equipment and techniques that potentially could transform our concept of chemical plants and lead to compact, safe, energy-efficient, and environment-friendly sustainable processes. These developments share a co...

In tracing developments in health care quality, a number of different approaches to quality evaluation can be identified, differing in terms of the specific focus and means of achieving quality. This paper attempts to classify the development of quality in health care, drawing on experiences within the industrial quality movement. Three distinct models of quality evaluation are described, accor...