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Acknowledgements We thank the staff of the Geochemistry Laboratory at Jacobs University Bremen, and Peter Dulski of GFZ Potsdam. This research is funded by the German Science Foundation. 

Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge financial support from the German Science foundation (DFG) within the project Adhasion und Mechanik von Polyelektrolyt-Hohlkorpem and the Max Planck Society. We are grateful for stimulating discussions with Prof. Helmuth Mohwald. 

Continuous support of the author s research by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungs-gcmeinschaft), Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and Max-Buchner-Forschungsstiftung is gratefully acknowledged... 

The Max Planck Society and the German Science Foundation are thanked for financial support. 

Acknowledgement This research was funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) through a postgraduate research fellowship (ME 1480/2). 

We are grateful to the German Science Foundation for funding this work. NIC Jtilich, RWTH Aachen, and BOVILAB0RUB are acknowledged for computer time. 

DFG-Jahresberichte 1966—1970. (Annual Reports of the German Science Foundation, 1966—... 

Acknowledgements Our own contributions are generously supported by the University of Heidelberg and the German Science Foundation (DFG, SPP1137 Molecular Magnetism ). We are grateful for this invaluable help and the contributions of our co-workers and collaboration partners, whose names appear in the references. 

Acknowledgment The author would like to thank the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) for the financial support. 

In the next two sections we shall present the theory of transformed Hamiltonians and applications obtained in the framework of the Schwerpunkt of the German Science Foundation on Relativistic Effects on Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics. 

The present book serves a twofold purpose. On one hand, the book was designed to serve as a final report on the work done in the Collaborative Research Programme ( Schwerpunkt ) of the German Science Foundation on Relativistic Effect in Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics. I apologize that for that reason it is certainly biased towards the work of the groups who had participated in the last period of this pro-... 

The authors thank Dieter Neher (University of Postdam) for electric measurements and fioiitfiil discussions, Ulhich Scherf (University of Wuppertal) for providing of polymers. In addition, we thank DELTA (Dortmund) and ESRF (Grenoble) synchrotron radiation sources for experimental support. This work was financed by the Priority program SPP-1121 of the German Science Foundation. 

We wish to thank M. Ballauff, M. Barbosa, J. Blaul, B. Guilleaume, F. Jimenez Angeles, M. Lozada-Cassou, and S. May for various contributions to this work. In addition we acknowledge a large computer time grant hkf06 from NIC Jiilich and financial support by the German Science foundation. 

The authors are grateful to the German Science Foundation (DFG) for generously providing financial support within the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 481, project B11. The part on polypropylene was funded within the DFG program Vom Molekul zum Material (Schm 703/2-2 Al 474/5-2). 

John Bowman, Dave Cole, Elizabeth King, Val Fereirra, Brooks Hanson, Benita Putlitz, Jade Star Lackey, Greg Roselle, and Mike Spicuzza are thanked for reviews that helped improve the manuscript. Mary Diman drafted all figures. This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, and the German Science Foundation. 

The Senate Commission on the hivestigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area (The MAK Commission) is a scientific expert group of the German Science Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG). 

We wish to thank the German Science foundation (DFG) for a grant ... 

I should like to thank the coworkers from my institute for their enthusiastic collaborations, my colleagues and friends Profs. Li Shizhi, H. Warlimont, V. Vitek, and many others for illuminating discussions, and my wife Dr. Maritza Vepfek-Heijman for her valuable comments on the manuscript. I am very much indebted to Drs. M. Jilek, M. Sima, and P. Holubar from the SHM Company for a very fruitful collaboration towards the industrialization of our superhard nanocomposite coatings. Partial financial support of our work by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and the Bavarian Ministry for Education and Science is thankfully acknowledged. 

Peter Fratzl s lab studies the relation between (hierarchical) stmcture and mechanical behavior of biological materials, such as mineralized tissues, extracellular matrix, or plant cell walls, as well as bio-inspired composite materials. This is complemented by medically oriented research on osteoporosis and bone r eneration. Fratzl has published more than 350 papers in journals and books, mostly on interdisciplinary materials science topics. He received several international awards for his work including the Max Planck Research Award 2008 from the Humboldt Foundation (together with Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) and the Leibniz Award 2010 of the German Science Foundation. In 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier, France, and since 2007 he has been foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 

The authors thank all of their students, postdoctoral fellows, and collaborators who have been involved in the evolution of the dendronized polymer project, for their enthusiasm and hard work. The creative involvement of Profs Zhishan Bo and Afang Zhang deserve special thanks. Financial support is also acknowledged from ETH-Ziirich, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), NRP-62 Smart Materials , Freie Universitat BerUn, and German Science Foundation (DFG). 

DFG, German Science Foundation, Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials, Vol. 2 (J. Angerer and K. H. Schaller, eds.), Weinheim, 1985. 

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