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Arnold M. Guloy was born in Manila, in the Philippines. After graduation from Manila Science High School, he studied chemistry and received his BS degree at the University of the Philippines, Quezon City. He received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Iowa State University under the supervision of Professor John D. Corbett in 1992. After an IBM Postdoctoral fellowship at the IBM Research Center at York-town Heights, he joined the faculty at the University of Houston in 1994, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has over 70 publications with emphasis on exploratory research in solid state... 

Acknowledgments. DM would like to thank the Gohierno Vasco for a fellowship Becas para formadon de investigadores . PhD is Chercheur Qualifie du Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS . Authors would also like to thank all their (international) collaborators whose names can be found in the hst of references, and more particularly, J.L. Hedrick and C.J. Hawker from IBM Research Center, San Jose. Acknowledgment is also due to the Service Federaux des Affaires Scientifiques, Techniques et Culturelles (PAl 4-11 Chimie et catalyse supramoleculaire). 

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Researchers at IBM Research Center, San Jose, CA, particularly Dr. D. Y. Yoon, have done extensive work with the polyamic acid and polyimide from the reaction of pyromellitic dianhydride and 4,4 -oxydianiline. In private communication. Dr. Yoon reported that the thermally cyclodehydrated polyimide contained 4% isoimide as evidenced by ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis). Dr. Fred Hedberg, AFWAL, Dayton, OH, is using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) to determine residual isoimide content in the thermally cured product from an acetylene-terminated isoimide oligomer. Dr. Hedberg reported in private communication that the major isoimide band is in the 929-936 cm region. Unfortunately, there are other weak bands in the IR spectra of polyimides which interfere with the isoimide band. The IR spectra of thermally cured polyimides from 3,3, 4,4 -benzophenonetetracarboxylie acid dianhydr ide exhibited... 

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Denoit ivianaeioroi, rrencn mathematician, born in 1924 in Warsaw, first worked at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, then at the Universite de Lille, from 1974 an employee of the IBM Research Center in New York. When playing with a computer, Mandelbrot discovered the world of fractals. 

Fig. 27. Mass spectra of AljOj/TiC/ZrOj ceramic obtained by ICP-MS with laser ablation of dry solid. Zirconium is present at 1%, Sm is at 50 p.gg and Tm is observable at 1 p.gg Note low levels of oxide ions (e.g., ZrO /Zr —10 ) when sample is introdnced without nebulized water. Courtesy of P. Arrowsmith, IBM Research Center.

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Financial support for this work was provided by NASA Lewis Research Center, and by IBM through a Faculty Development Award to one of the authors (D.A.S.). 

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