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Anzali, S., Bamickel, G., Krug, M., Sadowski, J., Wagener, M. and Gasteiger, J. (1996) Evaluation of molecular surface properties using a Kohonen neural network. In Neural Networks in QSAR and Design, Devillers, J. (Ed.), Academic Press, London. 

In this chapter we will focus on molecular ordering and confinement effects in pores. Diffusion experiments with the pulse-field gradient method ([162-165] and references therein) and characterization of the surface properties using NMR of noble gases such as 129Xe ([166-171] and references therein), or 83Kr [172], will be omitted due to excellent reviews that have appeared quite recently in these areas. 

Robertus, J. Browne, W. R. Eeringa, B. L. Dynamic control over ceU adhesive properties using molecular-based surface engineering strategies. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2010, 39, 354— 378. 

Chemical Characterization. Titration methods in aqueous medium are not very informative, because H2O tends to strongly modify surface properties by molecular or dissociative chemisorption (70). Therefore, nonaqueous methods have been proposed, where the solvent (eg, benzene or isooctane) does not (or not strongly) interact with the catalyst surface. Hammett indicators were used to determine the acid strength in terms of the Hammett-Deyrup function Hq which is defined as... 

Studies of surfaces and surface properties can be traced to the early 1800s [1]. Processes that involved surfaces and surface chemistry, such as heterogeneous catalysis and Daguerre photography, were first discovered at that time. Since then, there has been a continual interest in catalysis, corrosion and other chemical reactions that involve surfaces. The modem era of surface science began in the late 1950s, when instmmentation that could be used to investigate surface processes on the molecular level started to become available. 

To display properties on molecular surfaces, two different approaches are applied. One method assigns color codes to each grid point of the surface. The grid points are connected to lines chicken-wire) or to surfaces (solid sphere) and then the color values are interpolated onto a color gradient [200]. The second method projects colored textures onto the surface [202, 203] and is mostly used to display such properties as electrostatic potentials, polarizability, hydrophobidty, and spin density. 

A chemical property of silicones is the possibility of building reactivity on the polymer [1,32,33]. This allows the building of cured silicone networks of controlled molecular architectures with specific adhesion properties while maintaining the inherent physical properties of the PDMS chains. The combination of the unique bulk characteristics of the silicone networks, the surface properties of the PDMS segments, and the specificity and controllability of the reactive groups, produces unique materials useful as adhesives, protective encapsulants, coatings and sealants. 

Other noncontact AFM methods have also been used to study the structure of water films and droplets [27,28]. Each has its own merits and will not be discussed in detail here. Often, however, many noncontact methods involve an oscillation of the lever in or out of mechanical resonance, which brings the tip too close to the liquid surface to ensure a truly nonperturbative imaging, at least for low-viscosity liquids. A simple technique developed in 1994 in the authors laboratory not only solves most of these problems but in addition provides new information on surface properties. It has been named scanning polarization force microscopy (SPFM) [29-31]. SPFM not only provides the topographic stracture, but allows also the study of local dielectric properties and even molecular orientation of the liquid. The remainder of this paper is devoted to reviewing the use of SPFM for wetting studies. 

Before studying the reactivity of the nanoparticles, it is necessary to evaluate whether the synthetic method employed would lead to particles of clean unoxidized surface, able to react with incoming molecules. For this purpose we used, besides physical techniques (which are sometimes difficult to handle due to the high oxidability of particles prepared in this way), molecular methods, namely IR and NMR spectroscopy, as well as magnetic measurements which can give a precise description of the surface properties of the particles. 

Using molecular mechanics calculations to assess the three-dimensional shape of a molecule, various surface properties such as polarity and size can be calculated. The dynamic molecular surface properties can be determined from the (low energy) conformation(s) of the drug molecule obtained by molecular mechanics calculations of conformational preferences. The potential advantage of this method is that the calculated surface character-sitics determine numerous physicochemical properties of the molecules including lipophilicity, the energy of hydration and the hydrogen bond formation capacity [187-... 

In addition, the calculation of many different ID, 2D and 3D descriptors is possible using a range of commercially available software packages, such as Sybyl, Cerius2, Tsar, Molconn-Z and Hybot. Several new descriptor sets are based on quantification of 3D molecular surface properties, and these have been explored for the prediction of, e.g., Caco-2 permeability and oral absorption. It is pointed out here that a number of these new descriptors are strongly correlated to the more traditional physico-chemical properties. 

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