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Microemulsion research has since its inception been stimulated by the great potential for practical applications. In particular, considerable research interest has been invested in the possibility of using microemulsions for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). It was observed that surfactant formulations forming three-phase microemulsion systems, often termed Winsor III systems [29], in the oil well could increase the oil yield considerably. Important contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms involved were made by Shah and Hamlin [30] and the Austin group led by Schechter and Wade (see Bourrel et al. [31]). 

Genuine Turing patterns are nonequilibrium structures and can occur only in open systems. This requirement represents the first obstacle on the way to an experimental realization of Turing patterns. Needed is an open reactor, an unstirred flow reactor, which can play the same role for spatial patterns that the CSTR plays for temporal patterns. This instrumentation problem was solved in the second half of the 1980s by the Austin group. They developed two types of open spatial reactors, the Couette reactor [433,335,456,336] and the continuously fed unstirred reactor (CFUR) [322, 432,431, 323]. The latter proved to be instrumental in the experimental realization of Turing patterns. 

Bram Edens [1991] produced a thesis in philosophy of science that reviewed the work of Prigogine and his associates at ULB and at the Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics of the University of Texas, Austin — the Brussels Austin group (BAG). Edens suggested that Prigogine had a complex and non-standard fundamental outlook that issued in a quite unusual research program dealing with systems that are far from equilibrium. 

MINDO/3, MNDO, and AM 1 wxrc developed by the Dervar group at the University of i exasat Austin. This group ehose many parameters, such as heats of formation and geometries of sample molecules, to reproduce experimental quantities. The Dewar methods yield results that are closer to experiment than the CN DO and IN DO methods. 

Hunn, B. D. Baughman. M. L. Silver, S. C. et al. (1986). Technical Potential for Electrical Energy Conservation and Peak Demand Reduction in Texas Buildings. Austin, TX Center for Energy Studies, University of Texas. Interlaboratoiy Working Group. (1997). Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions Potential Impacts of Energy-Efficient... 

Allcock HR, Austin PE, Neenan TX, Langex R, and Shriver DF. Polyphosphazenes with etheric side groups Prospective biomedical and solid electrolyte. Macromolecules, 1986, 19, 1508. 

Allcock, H. R., Austin, P. E., and Neenan, T. X., Phosphazene high polymers with bioactive substituent groups Prospective anesthetic aminophosphazenes, Macromolecules. 15, 689, 1982. 

The support of our SECM studies of liquid-liquid interfaces and related areas, by the EPSRC, BBSRC, Avecia, and the Wellcome Trust, is gratefully acknowledged. We have benefited from helpful discussions with several colleagues, including Prof. A. J. Bard and his group (University of Texas at Austin), Prof. D. E. Williams, Dr J. Strutwolf and Dr D. Caruana (University College London, UK), and Dr J. H. Atherton (Avecia, Huddersfield). At Warwick, Dr M. Gonsalves, and Dr J. V. Macpherson have provided valuable contributions to some of the work described in this chapter. 

The Sunshine Project (http //www hammond sunshine-project.org P.O. Box 41987, Austin, Texas 78704) keeps track of biological containment labs in the United States. This group published a listing of High Containment Labs and Other Facilities of the US Biodefense Program in November of 2004 (biological containment labs 3 and 4 not known to be heavily dedicated to bio-defense are not indicated on the listing). 

S. R. Sandler u. W. Caro, Organic Functional Group Preparations (2.), Bd.2, S. 353-413, Academic Press, Orlando San Diego New York Austin Boston London Sidney Tokio Toronto 1986. 

F. A. MATSEN and D. J. KLEIN, Molecular Physics Group, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas... 

Most of the sustained work on the different aspects of /x-methylene complexes has been performed in our own laboratories at Regensburg (59-61, 296 -299), and by the innovative groups of Knox (Bristol) (62-67), Levisalles and Rudler (Paris) (68-71), Pettit (Austin) (72-74), Shapley (Urbana, Illinois) (75-83), and Stone (Bristol) (84-94). Other significant contributions originate from the research of Wilkinson (London) (95-97), Bergman (Berkeley) (98), Tebbe (Du Pont) (99-101), Puddephatt (Liverpool) (102. 103), and Ziegler (Heidelberg) (104). 

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