Cover

Scrivener Publishing
100 Cummings Center, Suite 541J
Beverly, MA 01915-6106

Publishers at Scrivener
Martin Scrivener(martin@scrivenerpublishing.com)
Phillip Carmical (pcarmical@scrivenerpublishing.com)

Additives for High Performance Applications

Chemistry and Applications

Johannes Karl Fink

 

 

 

 

Wiley Logo

Preface

This book focuses on the chemistry of additives for high performance uses in analytical applications, electrical applications, medical applications, and others, as well as special exemplified uses of these additives.

The text focuses on the literature of the past decade. Beyond education, this book may serve the needs of engineers and specialists who have only a passing knowledge of these issues, but need to know more.

How to Use This Book

Utmost care has been taken to present reliable data. Because of the vast variety of material presented here, however, the text cannot be complete in all aspects, and it is recommended that the reader study the original literature for more complete information.

The reader should be aware that mostly US patents have been cited where available, but not the corresponding equivalent patents of other countries.

For this reason, the author cannot assume responsibility for the completeness, validity or consequences of the use of the material presented here. Every attempt has been made to identify trademarks; however, there were some that the author was unable to locate.

Index

There are four indices: an index of tradenames, an index of acronyms, an index of chemicals, and a general index. In the index of chemicals, compounds that occur extensively, e.g., acetone, are not included at every occurrence, but rather when they appear in an important context. When a compound is found in a figure, the entry is marked in boldface letters in the chemical index.

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to our university librarians, Dr. Christian Hasenhüttl, Dr. Johann Delanoy, Franz Jurek, Margit Keshmiri, Dolores Knabl, Friedrich Scheer, Christian Slamenik, Renate Tschabuschnig, and Elisabeth Groß for their support in literature acquisition. In addition, many thanks to the head of my department, Professor Wolfgang Kern, for his interest and permission to prepare this text.

I also want to express my gratitude to all the scientists who have carefully published their results concerning the topics dealt with herein. This book could not have been otherwise compiled.

Last, but not least, I want to thank the publisher, Martin Scrivener, for his abiding interest and help in the preparation of the text. In addition, my thanks go to Jean Markovic, who made the final copyedit with utmost care.

Johannes Fink
Leoben, 6th September 2016