A Century of Separation Science presents an historical, as well as technical, perspective of the critical developments in separation science since 1900, covering recent advances in chromatography, electrophoresis, field-flow fractionation, countercurrent chromatography, and supercritical fluid chromatography for high-speed and high-throughput analysis. The author also discusses the theory of gradient elution and solvent selection for optimal separation in liquid chromatography.

Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (GFAAS) is an established analytical laboratory technique used to examine materials in their vapor state by atomizing the sample in a graphite furnace. This approach is used mostly in the materials science and environmental analysis to examine alloys, polymers, ceramics, composites, and wastewater.

Peter Mirau presents an introduction to the theory and practice of NMR. He covers the fundamental principles of NMR and the applications to polymers. This book helps readers understand how these methods can be used to determine the chemical structure of polymers that influences the macroscopic properties.

In a well-written and readable style, this primer provides an introduction to quality, standards, and regulations in the analytical laboratory with user-friendly language. Today's industrial laboratory analyst is deeply involved with such job issues as quality control, quality assurance ISO 9000, standard operating procedures, calibration, standard reference materials, statistical control, control charts, proficiency testing, validation, system suitability, chain of custody, good laboratory practices, protocol, and audits. A Primer on Quality in the Analytical Laboratory serves as a valuable resource to a myriad of laboratory practices.

A changing world economic and regulatory environment plus demographic changes in the laboratory workforce call for improved laboratory management methods, and this book discusses the topics surrounding these issues.

Authored by a team of acknowledged experts, this book presents a multidisciplinary view of the state-of-the-art in the field of actuators. The goal of the book is to provide a comprehensive  overview of the properties, applications, and potential applications of traditional and unconventional actuators, together with their corresponding power electronics. Special attention is paid to the objective assessment of competing actuator principles. The book is written primarily for designers and engineers in research and  development, but will also be valuable as a textbook for students of automation engineering, mechatronics and adaptronics.