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We have already stressed the potential importance of lipid-rich membranes in the skin as potential targets for ROS-induced damage and ageing of human skin is morphologically identical to changes found by peroxidative processes (Serri et al., 1977). The involvement of AA metabolites in skin disease, and in particular psoriasis, has been the subject of much recent interest. Studies have included topical and intradermal administrations of AA metabolites, and assay of such products in clinical specimens. Results show that concentration of AA, 12-hydroxy-eicosatetraenoic acid (12-HETE), PG and leu-kotrienes are increased in psoriatic lesions (Hammarstrom etal., 1975 Camp etal., 1983 Brain etal., 1984 Duell et al., 1988) and also that full-thickness epidermis from normal and diseased skin has the enzymatic capacity to convert AA to some of the same metabolites (Hammarstrom etal., 1975, 1979 Camp etal., 1983 Brain etal., 1984 Ziboh et al., 1984 DueU et al., 1988). The biological effect of both 12-HETE and leukotrienes was confirmed by both topical application and intradermal injection, which caused epidermal inflammation and... 

Pentane is considered nontoxic at concentrations below its lower flammability limits (15,000ppm). Human subjects exposed to SOOOppm for 10 minutes did not experience mucous membrane irritation or other symptoms. In early reports topical application of pentane to volunteers caused painful burning sensations accompanied by itching after 5 hours, blisters formed on the exposed areas. More recent studies showed that 2.0ml applied to the skin of volunteers for 24 hours was not irritating. ... 

The early studies in the use of silver sulfadiazene were reviewed and widely popularized by Moyer (Monafo and Moyer 1968). The entire subject area covering the early uses of silver, through to present-day applications, has been extensively reviewed by iQasen (2000a,b). The first topical application in the treatment of wounds and ulcers employed silver nitrate or lunar caustic, and this material became widely used in the treatment of burns and inflammation. 

When one talks of chiral surfaces, the first thing that comes to mind is the grafting of chiral molecules onto a support. This aspect is well known and has been used in many applications in the fields of asymmetric synthesis and chiral chromatography. We will not deal any further with this topic, which has been the subject of numerous studies. 

This chapter and the two that follow are introduced at this time to illustrate some of the many extensive areas in which there are important applications of surface chemistry. Friction and lubrication as topics properly deserve mention in a textbook on surface chemistiy, partly because these subjects do involve surfaces directly and partly because many aspects of lubrication depend on the properties of surface films. The subject of adhesion is treated briefly in this chapter mainly because it, too, depends greatly on the behavior of surface films at a solid interface and also because friction and adhesion have some interrelations. Studies of the interaction between two solid surfaces, with or without an intervening liquid phase, have been stimulated in recent years by the development of equipment capable of the direct measurement of the forces between macroscopic bodies. 

Thermodynamic derivations and applications are closely associated with changes in properties of systems. It should not be too surprising, then, that the mathematics of differential and integral calculus are essential tools in the study of this subject. The following topics summarize the important concepts and mathematical operations that we will use. 

Assessment ofphase diagrams. Selection, designing and planning of materials are relevant subjects from a fundamental point of view but, of course, are also interrelated basic topics in material science and engineering. Study and classification of preparation methods and of constitutional and fundamental properties followed by an investigation of application and performance characteristics are essential aspects of such topics and procedures. 

As liquid chromatography plays a dominant role in chemical separations, advancements in the field of LC-NMR and the availability of commercial LC-NMR instrumentation in several formats has contributed to the widespread acceptance of hyphenated NMR techniques. The different methods for sampling and data acquisition, as well as selected applications will be discussed in this section. LC-NMR has found a wide range of applications including structure elucidation of natural products, studies of drug metabolism, transformation of environmental contaminants, structure determination of pharmaceutical impurities, and analysis of biofiuids such as urine and blood plasma. Readers interested in an in-depth treatment of this topic are referred to the recent book on this subject [25]. 

There already exist a few books written on field ion microscopy. Most of these either were published before 1970 when most works were concerned with techniques and methods, or are later ones which emphasize applications to materials science. While some of the basic principles of field ion microscopy remain unchanged from those twenty years ago, when Muller and I wrote a book on the subject, there have been many important new theoretical and technical developments and applications, and also many more detailed studies of a variety of problems in surface science and materials science. In the book just referred to, the subject of atom-probe field ion microscopy was only barely touched. This is of course where most of the new developments are made, and is also the instrument now most actively employed by investigators in the field. In the present volume I try to emphasize basic principles of atom-probe field ion microscopy, field ion emission and applications to surface science. As books emphasizing applications to materials science already exist, only selected topics in this area are presented here. They are used to illustrate the various capabilities of atom-probe field ion microscopy in materials science applications. 

We may anticipate an eventual consensus on the amount and place of symmetry in the chemistry curriculum, but for now we have assumed no prior background in the subject- We have thus tried to illustrate a wide variety of uses of symmetry without delving deeply into the background theory. We hope that those new to the topic can find a useful introduction to the application of symmetry to problems in inorganic chemistry. On the other hand, those having previous experience with the subject may wish to use this chapter as a brief review. And, recognizing that things are in a state of flux, we have attempted to make it possible to study various topics such as orbital overlap, crystal field theory, and related material, as in the past, with minimal reference to symmetry if desired... 

While two-phase flow applications always existed, this topic became the subject of serious discussion only relatively recently, when the traditional method described in API, the so-called added areas, was cast into doubt. This led to various studies which we explain in this section. Although API makes some... 

One of the most exciting fields of research involves the study of composites, materials with two or more components with properties different from those of the components. Composites have revolutionized fields as diverse as sports and recreation and air transportation and military equipment. Another active field of research focuses on biomaterials, synthetic or semisynthetic products that have applications in living systems. Today researchers are developing artificial skin, blood, nerves, and other body components that can be used for the repair of damaged tissues. Nanotechnology is perhaps the most revolutionary of all areas of materials research. The subject deals with components of very small dimensions, comparable to those of atoms and molecules. Smart materials are yet another topic of... 

Hammett s view of the scope of the subject is summarized in the rarely mentioned sub-title of his book Reaction Rates, Equilibria, and Mechanisms . His conception of the subject still defines its core, but requires amplifying certain other topics are now usually deemed part of physical organic chemistry. Thus the rationalization of the experimental results of studies of reaction rates, equilibria, and mechanisms involves the application of the electronic theory of the structures and reactions of organic molecules, either in its early forms as developed by Robinson, Ingold, and others on the basis of the electron-pair covalent bond, or in its later forms involving quantum mechanical treatments. 

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