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Books

THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS

Author(s)
Eric W. Lemmon
These tables give thermodynamic and transport properties of a variety of fluids, as generated from the equations of state presented in the references below. The

Robotic Patient Lift and Transfer

Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, James S. Albus
This book chapter provides background on wheelchairs, patient lift devices and the combination of mobile patient lift and transfer devices and research. The

Durability of Building Joint Sealants

Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Donald L. Hunston
Predicting the service life of building joint sealants exposed to service environments in less than real times has been a need of the sealant community for many

Image Analysis for High-Throughput Materials Science

Author(s)
Alamgir Karim, A Sehgal, J C. Meredith, A J. Crosby, Eric J. Amis
Imaging plays a key role in modern day materials science by providing a high-density format of data representation that can be visually interpreted or processed

Poisson Ratio and Covalency - Ionicity

Author(s)
H M. Ledbetter, Sung Kim
For twenty-one 8-N (octet) compounds, we consider the dependence of the Poisson ratio upsilion} on fractional covalent-ionic character estimated from atomic

Optical Frequency Standards and Their Measurement

Author(s)
John L. Hall, Jun Ye
The last four years have seen a revolution in the art and practice of optical frequency measurement. Indeed the gearbox represented by the spectrally-broadened

Carrier-Envelope Phase of Ultrashort Pulses

Author(s)
Steven T. Cundiff, F Krausz
The phase of the electromagnetic field has typically not been a quantity of physical meaning in optics because all I measurements are of intensity.Relative

Radiation Chemistry of Phenols

Author(s)
Pedatsur Neta, S Steenken
This chapter summarizes the radiation chemistry of phenols. It includes studies on the radiation chemistry of phenols in aqueous solutions, in organic solvents

Reactive Intermediates in Combustion

Author(s)
John K. Merle, Christopher M. Hadad
This chapter provides an introduction into the chemistry of reactive intermediates that are typically generated by combustion. Several aspects of combustion

Crycoolers and High-Tc Devices

Author(s)
Ray Radebaugh
This chapter reviews various methods and their operating principles for producing cryogenic temperatures. The use of liquid cryogens for laboratory studies of

Near-Critical Behavior of Aqueous Systems

Author(s)
M A. Anisimov, Jan V. Sengers, Johanna Levelt Sengers
This chapter concentrates on the thermophysical properties of water, steam and aqueous solutions in a large range around the water critical point. The chapter

Thermodynamics of Regenerative Refrigerators

Author(s)
Ray Radebaugh
Regeneration refrigerators operate with oscillating pressures and flows. Such refrigerators include the Stirling, Gifford-McMahon, and pulse tube refrigerators

THz Investigations of Condensed Phase Biomolecular Systems

Author(s)
Kevin O. Douglass, Hailiang Zhang, Susan K. Gregurick, Karen M. Siegrist, David F. Plusquellic
Terahertz (THz) spectroscopic investigations of crystalline dipeptide nanotubes are discussed in the frequency region from 0.6 THz (2 cm-1) to 3 THz (100 cm-1)

Detection of food pathogens by on-chip PCR

Author(s)
Pierre-Alain Auroux, Barbara Jones
This is a chapter that will be part of a book on detection of pathogens using state-of-the-art detection methods. We are focusing on the use of microfluidic
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