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The research work described here was carried out by an able group of students of Yamaguchi University and Ube Techinical College, and in collaboration with our laboratory staffs and industrial colleagues. In particular, Dr. S. Fujisaki and Dr. T. Okamoto made significant contributions. We thank them all, and also Dr. H. Tsuzuki of Central Analytical Center of Kyushu University undertook X-ray crystal structure analysis of BTMA Br3. Furthermore, we wish to thank Professor M. Tashiro of Kyushu University for useful discussions. Finally, we are grateful to Professor Y. Sasson of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Orgabrom 93, for the invitation to present this work in Jerusalem. 

Yasuhiro Kuramitsu, MD, PhD Department of Biochemistry and Functional Proteomics, Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan... 

I. Mouri, PhD Thesis, United Graduate School of Yamaguchi University, Tottori University and Shimane University, 1998. 

Department of Applied Chemistry, Yamaguchi University, Ube 755, Japan... 

K Miura Kajima Corporation, Japan A Miyamoto Yamaguchi University, Japan T Miyoshi Kobe University, Japan G Molinari University of Genoa, Italy T B Moodie University of Alberta, Canada D B Murray Trinity College Dublin, Ireland G Nakhaeizadeh DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany... 

Department of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Toldwadai, Ube, Japan 755... 

Prof Susumu Tsuchiya Yamaguchi University Department of Adv. Materials Science Engineering 2557 Tokiwadai, Ube,... 

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8512, Japan Bom in 1966 at Mikame, a fishing town in western Shikoku Island. Graduated in chemistry at Ehime University in 1988 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from Kyoto University. Appointed Associate Professor, Yamaguchi University, in 2000. His research interests are mainly concerned with organometallic and heteroatom chemistry. 

Dept of Bio-Signal Analysis, Yamaguchi University, 1-1-1 Minami-kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan Email yhirakaw hiroshima-u.ac.jp... 

Universitat Erlangen-Niimberg, 295 Universitat Wiizburg, 261 University of Califomia-Davis, 109 University of Western Sydney, 228 University of Wisconsin, 39 Yamaguchi University, 146... 

At Yamaguchi University many excellent students have studied ion exchange membranes together with the author Students learn from a professor and the professor learns much more from the students . The author sincerely thanks them for their cooperation in his study. Also, the author sincerely thanks his wife, Mrs Takako Sata, who has assisted his work in every aspect, and thanks his son, Mr. 

Department of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1 ToMwadai, Ube 755-8611, Japan Konoshima Chemical Co., Ltd, 80 Koda, Takuma-cho, Mitoyo-gun, 769-1103, Kagawa, Japan... 

R. S. Dattatrayam, Seismology Division, India Stuart Haigh, Cambridge University, UK Hemanta Hazarika, Kyushu University, Japan Masayuki Hyodo, Yamaguchi University, Japan... 

Jinli Qiao is a professor, PhD supervisor, and scientific core-competency leader at Donghua University, China. She earned her PhD in electrochemistry from Yamaguchi University, Japan, in 2004 before joining the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, as a research scientist. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Qiao carried out seven fuel cell projects including two NEDO projects in Japan on the development of novel proton-conducting membranes, new binders for membrane electrode assembly (MEA)... 

Dept. Chemical Engineering, Yamaguchi University Ube, Yamaguchi-ken,... 

Department of Chemical Engineering Yamaguchi University 2557 Tokiwadai Ube, 755 JAPAN... 

Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University,... 

The authors are very grateful to Prof. Nakanishi of Okayama University for providing information and discussions on enzymatic synthesis of acylated amino acids. The experiments on synthesis of amino acid-based surfactants referred to in the text are now under way in collaboration with Prof. Nakanishi, supported partially by a Grant-in-Aid from the Program for Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Bioscience in Japan. The authors wish to thank Prof. Shimizu of Tokyo University and Prof. Kato of Yamaguchi University for discussions relating to the text. 

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