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The CCPS Taxonomy developed for this book is one step toward accumulating and collating equipment reliability data for the CPI. Ideally, it will be expanded and modified as more companies make chemical process equipment failure rates and reliability data available. We expect that CCPS will update this book and the CCPS generic data base as new information becomes available. The taxonomy may also require modification where experience shows it is needed. We would appreciate any contribution from readers to these ends. 

Glucose sensors based on this electrochemistry are now commercially available. Furthermore, it seems likely that this concept will soon be expanded to other types of enzyme-based sensors. Hence, sensor development is proving to be one of the great success stories of the chemically modified electrode research area. 

Doi, S., J.H. Clark, D.J. Macquarrie and K. Milkowski, New Materials Based on Renewable Resources Chemically Modified Expanded Corn Starches as Catalysts for Liquid Phase Organic Reactions, Chemical Communications, 2632-2633 (2002). 

In the Preface to the first edition of this book in 1996 I expressed the hope that the contents would act as a practical guide to actions that need to be taken in the day-to-day management of R D in the chemical industry a nuts and bolts of management as accurately described by one reviewer. That this proved to be the case was evidenced buy the fact that a second edition was published in 2003, in which the contents were expanded and modified to include management issues relevant to both the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. 

One of the first applications of biodegradable materials is based on the cooked, extruded, and expanded starch known from the food and chemical sectors (Fig. 14.23). Starch is cooked with water in the extruder and chemically modified as necessary or mixed with plasticizers, then expanded to a starch foam and dried. The extrudate is ground so that the functional properties thus created can be used in the food/chemicals sector. The foamed, cut, and dried extrudate is the end product for loose-fill packaging applications. The degree of expansion is a measure of the foam texture. It increases strongly with product temperature at the die, helped by a higher specific mechanical energy input. However, both measures increase the water-solubility of the product. 

It is clear that there are many possibilities for avoiding the use of classical acid and base catalysts in a wide variety of chemical reactions. Their application will result in the development of more sustainable processes with a substantial reduction in the inorganic waste produced by the chemical industry. Particularly noteworthy in this context is the use of chemically modified expanded com starches, containing pendant S03H or NH2 groups, as solid acid or base catalysts, respectively [152]. In addition to being recyclable these catalysts are biodegradable and derived from renewable raw materials (see Chapter 8). 

It is speculated that the biological resistance of chemically modified wood is due to chemical alteration of cellulosic substrate so that the very specific hydrolytic enzymatic reactions cannot take place. Resistance may also be due, in part, to reducing the available cell wall moisture to below a level required for biological attack. The decrease in swelling of wood in contact with moisture—that is, dimensional stability—which results from chemical modification of wood is due to the bulking action of the added chemical to the cell wall. The bulked wood cell walls are kept in a swollen state as long as the bonded chemical is retained. In this swollen condition, wood cannot expand or contract further in response to contact with water. 

The a-chitin nanofibrils have lesser safety issues than chemically modified materials such as TEMPO-oxidized a-chitins. As a consequence, potential applications can be expanded to functional foods, life sciences, and medical fields. 

While pure oxides and phosphates exhibit many possible chemical interactions, modified oxide and phosphates could be considered as exhibiting expanded chemical interactions, with very interesting possible consequences for basic and apphed chemistry. 

Doi S, Clark JH, Macquarrie DJ, Milkowski K (2002) New materials based on renewable resources chemically modified expanded com starches as catalysts for liquid phase organic reactions. Chem Com 22 2632-3... 

The use of DNA as a template for the construction of nanosystems offers chemists the abiUly to further expand its self-recognition properties by the incorporation of metals to natural or chemically modified DNA bases, backbones, and ligands to allow the creation of functional molecular architectures. Such systems further expand Ihe DNA code by increasing the information content via the addition of new letters to the DNA alphabet, which can then ideally reduce errors while increasing fimctionalily. Access to not just double-strand oligonucleotides but also the formation of triple and quadruple strands as branched or hairpin structures can also be achieved. The ability to alter the properties of DNA via metal interactions has shown to enhance stability, electrical conductivity, and magnetic and catalytic properties and therefore forms the basis of novel prototypical nano materials. 

We do not discuss however the important field of polymer ionics and polymer electrolytes. This class of materials consists of polar macro-molecular solids in which one or more of a wide range of salts has been dissolved. A classic example that has been studied a great deal is the combination of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) containing LiX salt as solute. The reader is referred to a recent monograph edited by Scrosati and to review articles by Vincent, Linford, Owen and to a volume edited by MacCallum and Vincent for further information on this rapidly expanding area of polymer science. The major focus in this chapter (and indeed in this book) is on electroactive polymers used as electrode materials. Polymeric electrolytes, although important in both a technological and fundamental sense, present different problems to those discussed in this volume, and so we restrict discussion to electroactive polymer-based chemically modified electrodes. 

The second large group of frequently used working electrodes is represented by chemically modified electrodes (CMEs) expanding substantially the possibilities in chemical speciation thanks to selectively acting modifiers entrapped at the electrode surface or in the electrode bulk as a suitable ligand,ion exchanger, or even enzyme. ... 

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