J Acknowledgements

P.A.J. acknowledges a permanent research position as Senior Research Associate from N.F.W.O. (Belgium). Financial support from the same organization is appreciated. 

J.C. thanks the State Committee for Scientific Research for support of this research. M.J. acknowledges a partial support of this work by the Ohio Research Challenge grant. 

M.J. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation Grants CTS-0553014 and CHE-0093707. The authors also acknowledge BASF Company and Dow Chemicals for providing triblock copolymers and would like to thank Kamil Gierszal from Kent State University for performing modification of SBA-15 silica. 

M.J. acknowledges the National Science Foundation Grants CTS-0553014 and CHE-0093707. The authors thank BASF for providing P123 block copolymer. 

Acknowledgements This research was supported by the NSF grant CHE-0239611 and by an ARO DEPSCoR grant. B.J. acknowledges a generous support from the Foundation for Polish Science. 

Acknowledgements. We thank Dr. B. Schmidt, E. Predj, Prof. M. A. Rat-ner, and Dr. A. Marks for helpful discussions and suggestions. The research described here was supported by the Chemistry Division of the NSF (grant CHE-9503258 to R.B.G.) and by the Granting Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (grant A4040706 to P.J.). 

Several chapters in this book are based on articles that appeared in American Laboratory from 1981 to 1988. I wish to acknowledge my coauthors of these papers, F. J. McLafferty, W. Gratzer, and B. P. Angelis. I wish to thank the editors of American Laboratory, especially Brian Howard, for permission to quote extensively from those articles. 

J. C. T. Kwak at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. We gratefully acknowledge the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a travel grant to S.O. Theo Rispens is most gratefully acknowledged for the synthesis and purification of 5.5a-c. 

In the discussion of Table 4.1, we acknowledged that there might be some uncertainty in the values of the quantities tabulated, but we sidestepped the origin of the uncertainty. In the next section we shall consider one of these areas the effect of crystal dimensions of the value of T j,. 

The contributions of J, K, Fink, Argonne National Laboratory U, GriguU, Tech, Universitat, Munich, Germany and H, Sato, Keio University, Japan, are acknowledged. 

Acknowledgement—This research is partially supported by the NSF (ASC-9217368) and by the Materials and Molecular Simulation Center. We thank J. Vazquez for help with the SEM imaging of nanotubes, G. Gorman and R. Savoy for X-ray analysis, and M. 3. dc Vries for mass spectrometry. 

Acknowledgment The authors wish to express their gratitude to Dr. J. Edwards of Syntex Research who provided the experimental procedure utilizing silver carbonate on Celite. We are also indebted to the Synthetic Chemical Research Department of Merck Sharp Dohme Research Laboratories for providing time to complete this review and also to Miss Joanna Mohr for her patience and care in preparing the manuscript. 

We wish to thank Professor Carl Djerassi for suggesting that we undertake this effort. We are especially grateful to Drs. N. Dyson, C. Djerassi, I. T. Harrison and J. Pfister, each of whom reviewed the final draft of one of the chapters. Secretarial help by Miss Mary Jakubauskus is also gratefully acknowledged. 

The authors are very grateful to P. Wachter for the generous support in providing the access to the technical facilities, and to K. Sattler and D. Ugarte for fruitful discussions, and to J. Muller for technical assistance. One of us (L.D.) wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the Swiss National Foundation for the Scientific Research and of the ETH Research Council. 

In addition to the contributors, quite a few persons participated in the project Acknowledgments are due to J P ChuppandR Hakes of Monsanto for critical remarks and to Angie Miller Wanda Ritter, and Janet LaPalometo for typing the manuscript... 

We gratefully acknowledge the comments and suggestions submitted by the following companies and peer reviewers Henry Blunt (Shell Oil) Arthur F. Burk (DuPont) Charles Dancer (Allied Signal) J. A. Hoffmeister (Martin Marietta Energy Systems) Robert Ormsby (Air Products and Chemicals) Duane Sanderson (3M) Anthony A. Thompson (Monsanto) and Guy Van Cleve (Petrocon). 

The author thanks the previously mentioned companies for the columns and to Dr. W. Wunderlich for PMMA samples. This work was supported in part by the Slovak Grant Agency VEGA, Project 2/4012/97, and by Slovak-USA Scientific-technical cooperation project 007/95. The technical assistance of Mrs. J. Tarbajovska is acknowledged. 

Somehow the editor usually escapes acknowledgment. We were particularly fortunate to have B.J. Clark serve as the editor for our book. He had the vision early on to realize the need for a project of this nature. He and his staff s (including Brian Black and Ted Allen) patient handling and understanding of the numerous problems that arose during the preparation of the manuscript was particularly appreciated. Thanks, B.J. 

The contributions of J. Furthmiiller, P. Kackell, K. Seifert, R. Stadler, and R. Pocl-loucky to various parts of the work described in this article is gratefully acknowledged. Part of this work has been supported by the Bundesministerium fiir Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst through the Center for Computational Materials Science. 

Acknowledgements are made to Mrs J. Sadowska-Mazur for preparing this bibliography on localised attack. 

Acknowledgements are made to Mr N. J. Ray for providing material on the water treatment eispects of this subject and to Dr A. Rantell for helpful discussions. 

Most of this work was done during a tenure of a senior fellowship of the Commonwealth Fund, and the author takes pleasure in expressing his sincere gratitude to the directors of the Commonwealth Fund. He would also like to acknowledge editorial assistance from his wife, and the encouragement that he received from various friends, especially, in the early stages, from Dr. J. E. Mayer and Dr. R. E. Gibson. 

The authors thank D. H. Murray and E. J. Hedgley for samples of compounds 9 and 11, respectively. The support of grants GM-12328 and AI-07570 from the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, is acknowledged by D. C. Dejongh. The mass spectrometer was purchased by Wayne State University under Grant CP-1476 from the National Science Foundation. 

We are pleased to acknowledge our indebtedness to colleagues P. J. Baldock and A. Parker for the x-ray crystallographic studies, to P. Snowden who devised the life prediction technique, and to Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. for permission to publish this paper. 

Dr. J. M. Heuchen s help in carrying out this experiment is gratefully acknowledged... 

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