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Incompatibility problems with organic and inorganic spherical fillers in plastics may be overcome by grafting reactive groups on their surface or adding coupling agents. 

Suppliers of thermoexpandable microspheres are Expancel (Eka Chemicals AB, Akzo Nobel), Sweden Matsumoto Yushi-Seiyaku Co. Ltd, Japan Sekisui Chemical Company Ltd, J apan, and Kureha Chemical Industry Co. Ltd, Japan. Suppliers of solid microspheres are Microbeads AS, Norway Matsumoto Yushi-Seiyaku Co. Ltd, Japan, and Sekisui Chemical Company Ltd, Japan. Supplier of microcapsules for release purposes is Microbeads AS, Norway. Supplier of phenolic microspheres is Asia Pacific Microspheres, Malaysia. Supplier of EPS particles Kaucuk a,s-Unipetrol Group, Czech Republic Dow Chemical Company, Michigan, USA BASF SE, Germany. Suppliers of metal coated microspheres Microbeads AS, Norway and Sekisui Ghemical Gompany Ltd, Japan. 

The body recognizes hydrophobic particles as foreign. The reticulo-endothelial system (RES) eliminates these from the blood stream and takes them up in the liver or the spleen. This process is one of the most important biological barriers to particles-based controlled drug delivery [15]. 

Nevertheless, it has been proved that the addition of PEG to the system produces a reduction of encapsulation efficiency for drugs and proteins, even when the appropriate fabrication technique is used. That reduced drug inclusion could be related to steric interference of drug/protein-polymer interaction by the PEG chains, but until now, the precise mechanism for this effect was not elucidated. Improved release kinetics 

Furthermore, nanoparticles surface customization can enable target tissues or specific cell surface antigens, targeting specific ligands such as antibody/antibody fragment, peptide, aptamer or small molecules [30]. 

In the following sections, several important polymers used in the encapsulation of proteins and peptides are summarized. 

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Step 9 - using updated values of the free surface function the location of the free surfaces are identified and the positions of each phase in the current flow domain are marked accordingly. 

Eig. 1. Schematics of (a) acid-cataly2ed and (b) base-cataly2ed siHca gels showing the differences in microstmcture and surface functional groups. 

Surface properties are generally considered to be controlled by the outermost 0.5—1.0 nm at a polymer film (344). A logical solution, therefore, is to use self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) as model polymer surfaces. To understand fully the breadth of surface interactions, a portfoHo of chemical functionahties is needed. SAMs are especially suited for the studies of interfacial phenomena owing to the fine control of surface functional group concentration. 

Adsorption and Surface Chemical Grafting. As with siHca and many other siHcate minerals, the surface of asbestos fibers exhibit a significant chemical reactivity. In particular, the highly polar surface of chrysotile fibers promotes adsorption (physi- or chemisorption) of various types of organic or inorganic substances (22). Moreover, specific chemical reactions can be performed with the surface functional groups (OH groups from bmcite or exposed siHca). 

Determination of surface functional groups, e.g., —OH, —C - C—, and >C = O, and identificadon of adsorbed molecules comes principally from comparison with vibrational spectra (infixed and Raman) of known molecules and compounds. Quick qualitative analysis is possible, e.g., stretching modes involving H appear for v(C—H) at 3000 cm and for v(0—H) at 3400 cm L In addition, the vibrational energy indicates the chemical state of the atoms involved, e.g., v(C=C) " 1500 cmT and v(C=0) " 1800 cm"L Further details concerning the structure of adsorbates... 

The results obtained demonstrate competition between the entropy favouring binding at bumps and the potential most likely to favour binding at dips of the surface. For a range of pairwise-additive, power-law interactions, it was found that the effect of the potential dominates, but in the (non-additive) limit of a surface of much higher dielectric constant than in solution the entropy effects win. Thus, the preferential binding of the polymer to the protuberances of a metallic surface was predicted [22]. Besides, this theory indirectly assumes the occupation of bumps by the weakly attracted neutral macromolecules capable of covalent interaction with surface functions. 

This process is probably accompanied by fixation at surface functional groups as well as crosslinking reactions. The simplicity of this approach makes it quite promising for a more general application. 

FIGURE 7.18 Synthetic strategy of direct surface functionalization. 

Our discovery that epoxides can initiate carbocationic polymerization led to the effective direct functionalization of PIBs with hydroxyl groups. Figure 7.18 shows our novel method of direct surface functionalization of SDIBSs using 4-(l,2-oxirane-isopropyl)-styrene, a new inimer. 

Foreman, E.A. and Fhiskas, J.E. Direct surface functionalization of novel biomaterials, Polym. Prepr., 47, 45, 2006. 

Dimethylaminoethyl Methacrylate. Successive Surface Functionalization with Heparin ... 

Broadening of the optimal pH range for reactive dye biosorption by chemical modification of surface functional groups of Corynebacterium glutamicum biomass... 

We have already referred to the Mo/Ru/S Chevrel phases and related catalysts which have long been under investigation for their oxygen reduction properties. Reeve et al. [19] evaluated the methanol tolerance, along with oxygen reduction activity, of a range of transition metal sulfide electrocatalysts, in a liquid-feed solid-polymer-electrolyte DMFC. The catalysts were prepared in high surface area by direct synthesis onto various surface-functionalized carbon blacks. The intrinsic... 

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the activation of carbon surfaces. These have Included the removal of surface contaminants that hinder electron transfer, an Increase In surface area due to ralcro-roughenlng or bulld-up of a thin porous layer, and an Increase In the concentrations of surface functional groups that mediate electron transfer. Electrode deactivation has been correlated with an unintentional Introduction of surface contaminants (15). Improved electrode responses have been observed to follow treatments which Increase the concentration of carbon-oxygen functional groups on the surface (7-8,16). In some cases, the latter were correlated with the presence of electrochemical surface waves (16-17). However, none of the above reports discuss other possible mechanisms of activation which could be responsible for the effects observed. 

The surface waves were simulated assuming the presence of two different functionalities, each undergoing a reversible two electron redox reaction. It was assumed that these surface functionalities were qulnones In Nernstlan equilibrium with the electrode potential before each DPV pulse. It was also assumed that the current during... 

G.Meyer3-, Surface-functionalization ofmicrostructuresbyanodicspark deposition,m Proceedingsofthe 6th International Conference on Microreaction Technology, IMRET6, 11-14March 2002,pp.l86-191, AIChE Pub. No. 164, NewOrleans( 2002). 

In conclusion, the method proposed herein allows high loading of Pd irrespectively of the support surface functionality. 

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