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We are grateful to N. Veerabadran and S. Balkundi who are working on the halloysite project at Louisiana Tech University. National Science Foundation NIRT-0210298 grant support is acknowledged. Any opinions and conclusions expressed are these of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the NSF. 

The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Industry/Uiuversity Cooperative Research Center (lUCRC) for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants at Columbia University (National Science Foundation Grant EEC-98-04168), the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Particle Science and Technology at the University of Florida (National Science Foundation Grant EEC-94-02989), and the Industrial Partners of the lUCRC and ERC. 

This work has been supported in part by MURST (Rome, Italy) and by NATO (CRG n. 900463). We acknowledge assistance by the Northeastern University - National Science Foundation Young Scholar Mentors - Joseph Corkery, Gregory Smith, and Eric Wisnaskas. 

Supercomputers are found in many government research laboratories, intelligence agencies, universities, and a small number of industrial companies. In the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided supercomputers to several prominent universities for both academic and industrial users. These centers provide state-of-the-art, supercomputer-tuned appHcations for a wide variety of disciplines, together with staffs who are very knowledgeable in optimization for supercomputer performance. 

Department of Chemistry. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois dlSOh This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (GP 30491X) and the National Cancer Institute (CA 13963). 

Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, XashvUle, Tenn. 37235. This work was supported b - grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. 

Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. This research was conducted at The Ohio State University and supported in part by National Science Foundation, Grant No. 12445. 

The authors would like to thank Pascal Deprez, Martial Deruelle, David P. Smith, Matthew Tirrell, Alphonsus V. Pocius, and Frank S. Bates for their input on this subject over the course of the last several years. They would also like to thank 3M and the Center for Interfacial Engineering, a National Science Foundation sponsored engineering research center at the University of Minnesota, for financial support. 

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. 

Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Supported by the National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participation Grant during the summer of 1964 and National Science Foundation Grant No. G-19490. 

Chemistry Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation... 

The author is grateful to T. Vermeulen for helpful comments and to the Miller Institute for Basic Science, University of California, Berkeley and to the National Science Foundation for financial support. 

Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, California 90007. This work was supported m part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, grant number GP 40331X. 

The research was supported jointly by the National Science Foundation and Office of Aerospace Research, U.S.A.F. Experimental results were obtained at the University of Chicago, Department of Physics. 

Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to Drs. D. McIntyre and S. Shih of The University of Akron for the fractionated PIB samples. Financial help by the National Science Foundation and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is gratefully acknowledged. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions made to this work by Ms. Sue Tanger and by Messrs. Franciso Lopez-Serrano, Jose Castro and Ron Miller and the support they received during the course of this work from the National Science Foundation (ENG77-05555 to MT, DMR 75-04508 to CWM), the Graduate School and Computer Center of the University of Minnesota (MT) and the Union Carbide Corporation (CWM). 

National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies. Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Selected Nonprofit Institutions, Fiscal Year 1985. Washington, D.C. National Science Foundation, 1987. 

Rodriguez, F., Cornell University Rogers, K., National Science Foundation Rolf, M. J., Owens/Coming Fiberglass Rosenberg, R. B., Gas Research Institute Rossen, R. H., Exxon Production Research Company... 

We are grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Center for Environmental Management at Tufts University, and the Alexander Host Foundation. 

Acknowledgment. The manuscript of this contribution had been written while the author was residing at the Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University as a National Science Foundation Senior Foreign Scientist Fellow. The author would like to thank Professor J. M. Sugihara, Professor S. P. Pappas and the staff of the Department of Chemistry, N. D. S. U. for having given him this opportunity and warm hospitality. His thanks are due in particular to Professor S. P. Pappas who kindly took the trouble to read the manuscript. It is also a pleasure to thank Dr. A. Toyota for his kind cooperation in preparing the manuscript. 

Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588. This work was supported in part by grants from the Research Corporation, National Science Foundation, North Carolina Board of Science and Technology, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Army Research Office. 

The research forming the basis for this paper was supported by the National Science Foundation, by the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, by the University of Minnesota Microelectronics and Information Sciences Center, and by a Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to KFJ. 

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

Acknowledgements. This work has been supported by MIUR (Supramolecular Devices Project), University of Bologna (Funds for Selected Topics), and EC (HPRN-CT-2000-00029). C.S. acknowledges the Swiss National Science Foundation for financial support. 

R.A.L. is indebted to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for a Fellowship in Science and Engineering and to the National Science Foundation for a CAREER Award, CHE-0346745. The authors would also like to thank J.P. Darr and J. J. Glennon from Washington University and A. B. McCoy and S. E. Ray from The Ohio State University for valuable discussions and for fruitful collaborations. 

The authors would like to acknowledge support from National Science Foundation and The Ohio State University Material Research Laboratory. Helpful discussions with present and past members of the research group are also greatfully acknowledged. 

This research has been funded by the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund (ACS, grant 28336-G5) and by the National Science Foundation (CTS-940618). Support from the Layman Fund and the Research Council at the University of Nebraska is so acknowledged. We thank the National Synchrotron Light Source and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory for X-ray beamtime. 

We thank Ms. Wei-Chee Tan for the preparation of the catalyst samples. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (CTS-9403199), the international cooperative program NSF-CONICET (INT-9415590), and the Exxon Education Foundation We thank the University of Mar del Plata for a fellowship (WEA), as part of the international exchange program sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and the University of Mar del Plata. 

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the convention n° 9.4593.92 from the Belgian National Science Foundation (FNRS =Fonds National de la Recherche Scientific and of its associated Foundation (FRFC = Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale et Collective). One of us (L.P.) acknowledges also the support by the BST-439/23/93 project of the Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland. D.H.M. thanks the Belgian Ministry of Science (SPPS) for financial support. 

This material is based upon work supported by the Army Research Office through a MURI grant (DAAD19-03-1-0169) for fuel ceU research to the Case Western Reserve University by the Army Research Office under award Army W91 lNF-08-1-0309, by the National Science Foundation under awards DMR 0504038 and NSF CHE06-51083, and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under award FA9550-06-1-0235. 

A native of the state of New Hampshire, Donald Fitts developed an interest in chemistry at the age of eleven. He was awarded an A.B. degree, magna cum laude with highest honors in chemistry, in 1954 from Harvard University and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1957 from Yale University for his theoretical work with John G. Kirkwood. After one-year appointments as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, and as a Research Fellow at Yale s Chemistry Department, he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, rising to the rank of Professor of Chemistry. 

Many of the views presented here have been informed by valuable discussions with colleagues at the Universities of Bristol, Leeds, Iowa and Minnesota. The list of names is too long to place here, but special mention should be reserved for the contributions of Peter Smart and Larry Edwards. We have drawn upon numerous examples from our own work in this review and acknowledge the support of the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) and the National Science Foundation (USA). We are grateful for the constructive comments of G. Henderson, A. Mangini and two anonymous reviewers. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation (CTS-0455965) for financial support of this work. BAS also thanks Trinity University and the Mach Research Scholarship Program for a Mach Research Scholarship. 

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