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The plant kingdom may have future potential in the fields of chemistiy, energy and renewable materials. Non-food crops prevent the annual importation of hundreds of thousands of tons of oil, and, in the field of macromolecules, they can provide natural monomers, surfactants, stabilizers and polymers. 

Further recent developments in fiber SPME have extended applications to compounds with low volatilities and/or low thermal stability. Thus, fiber-(or tube-) based SPME-LC has a considerable future potential, particularly as it has been recognized that GC capillary columns (available with a very wide range of internal coatings) can be used for this purpose. Samples are pumped through the tube using a micropump and then eluted onto the EC column using appropriate solvents. Applications of in-tube SPME (in combination with LC) include phthalates, chlorinate phenoxy acid herbicides, tributyl tin compounds, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAEIs), and polar aromatic compounds in water. 

The development of nucleic acid-based therapeutics is not as straightforward as researchers had initially anticipated. Stability, toxicity, specificity, and delivery of the compounds continue to be challenging issues that need further optimization. In recent years, researchers have come up with intricate solutions that have greatly improved the efficacy of potential antisense, ribozyme, as well as RNAi-based therapeutics. Clinical trials for all these types of nucleic acid-based therapeutics are underway. So far, data from several trials and studies in animal models look promising, in particular, the therapies that trigger the RNAi pathway. However, history has shown that compounds that do well in phase I or phase II clinical trials may still fail in phase III. A striking example is the nonspecific suppression of angiogenesis by siRNA via toII-Iike receptor 3 (Kleinman et al. 2008). It will become clear in the near future which compounds will make it as a new class of antiviral therapeutics. 

In the near future, the possible synthesis of nanotubes with solid-gas potential will be more favorable to adsorption. The effect of hydrogen overpressure on the stability of adsorbed Ha needs to be verified in the near future. The high-purity nanotube produced by laser vaporization, catalytic decomposition, or other techniques should be investigated. It is noteworthy that the synthesis of the SWNT with defined diameters and distances between the walls is difficult to perform at present, but future synthesis routes will allow more... 

Another important area of future development concerns copying the supramolecular principle of cell envelopes of archaea, which have evolved in the most extreme and hostile ecosystems. This biomimetic approach is expected to lead to new technologies for stabilizing fnnctional lipid membranes and their nse at the mesoscopic and macroscopic scales [200]. Along the same line, liposomes coated with S-layer lattices resemble archaeal cell envelopes or virns envelopes. Since liposomes have a broad application potential, particu-... 

In this review, CPOs constructed by covalent bonds are mainly focused on however, stable coordination bonds comparable to the stability of the covalent bonds have potential for future enhanced molecular design of novel CPOs. One representative is the bond between pyridine-type nitrogen and metal, which is widely used in supramolecular chemistry, that is, the cyclic supramolecular formation reaction between pyridine-substituted porphyrin and metal salts (Fig. 6d) [27,28]. Palladium salts are frequently used as the metal salts. From the viewpoint of the hard and soft acid and base theory (HSAB), this N-Pd coordination bond is a well-balanced combination, because the bonds between nitrogen and other group X metals, N-Ni and Ni-Pt coordination bonds, are too weak and too strong to obtain the desired CPOs, respectively. For the former, the supramolecular architectures tend to dissociate into pieces in the solution state, and for the latter. 

Since the first report on the ferrocene mediated oxidation of glucose by GOx [69], extensive solution-phase studies have been undertaken in an attempt to elucidate the factors controlling the mediator-enzyme interaction. Although the use of solution-phase mediators is not compatible with a membraneless biocatalytic fuel cell, such studies can help elucidate the relationship between enzyme structure, mediator size, structure and mobility, and mediation thermodynamics and kinetics. For example, comprehensive studies on ferrocene and its derivatives [70] and polypy-ridyl complexes of ruthenium and osmium [71, 72] as mediators of GOx have been undertaken. Ferrocenes have come to the fore as mediators to GOx, surpassing many others, because of factors such as their mediation efficiency, stability in the reduced form, pH independent redox potentials, ease of synthesis, and substitutional versatility. Ferrocenes are also of sufficiently small size to diffuse easily to the active site of GOx. However, solution phase mediation can only be used if the future biocatalytic fuel cell... 

Direct determination of surfactants in complex matrices can also be carried out using ion-selective electrodes. Depending on the membranes and additives used, the detergent electrodes are optimized for the detection of anionic surfactants [81], cationic surfactants [82], and even nonionic surfactants [83]. The devices are sensitive to the respective group of surfactants but normally do not exhibit sufficient stability and reproducibility for their use in household appliances. With further optimization of membrane materials, plasticizers and measurement technology, surfactant-selective electrodes offer high potential for future applications. 

The greatest advantage of in situ methods over ex situ processes is the benefit of using the nanocarbon as a substrate, template and heat sink for stabilizing metastable phases and small particle sizes and creating hybrids with unusual morphologies [232]. This enables the synthesis of new hybrid materials that may offer new properties and unknown potential for future research and application. 

Amidines such as the ones presented here appear to have a number of advantages, displaying good water solubility, and not producing formaldehyde during breakdown. Varying the dialkylamino group can modulate the lipo-philicity and the rate of nonenzymatic hydrolysis, and the stability of amidines under the acidic conditions that prevail in the stomach is compatible with oral administration. Future studies will certainly reveal the potential medicinal value of amidines. 

The only treatments that are likely to be viable commercially are aqueous delivery systems. Of the systems described in this chapter, furfurylation is the most advanced commercially and appears to show great promise. There has also been the recent introduction of the DMDHEU-based modified wood Belmadur on the market by BASF. At the present time, no other systems appear to offer any immediate prospects for commercial exploitation. The use of silicone treatments has apparently received little attention, which is very surprising due to the ready commercial availability of these systems for masonry treatment. Whether this apparent lack of activity is due to an oversight, represents a lack of real potential or perhaps is due to commercial sensitivity will become clearer in the future. However, silicone treatments are confined to the wood surface only and are not capable of penetrating the cell wall, and would therefore provide little improvement in dimensional stability. Similarly, no significant improvement in biological durability would be expected, since the relatively thin envelope of the treatment would be breached easily. However, the use of silicones in combination with other treatments that may be teachable in service (e.g. borates) would be an area well worth exploring. 

A second area that will be important in the future is the continued development of MOFs and ZlFs [152]. Much as the discovery of AlP04-based materials revolutionized the catalyhc use of zeolites when only aluminosilicates were known, MOFs and ZlFs have the potential to revolutionize low temperature processes such as oxidations and organic reachons [153]. Newly discovered materials along these same lines are covalent organic frameworks, the so-called COFs [154]. These materials have similar channels to those known for MOFs and ZlFs but tend to have higher thermal stability. 

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