The utilization of plant oil renewable resources as raw materials for monomers and polymers
is discussed and reviewed. In an age of increasing oil prices, global warming and other …

Oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin have been the most important renewable feedstock
of the chemical industry in the past and in the present. A tremendous geographical and …

We study fundamental aspects related to the efficient processing of the SPARQL query
language for RDF, proposed by the W3C to encode machine-readable information in the …

Castor oil is, as many other plant oils, a very valuable renewable resource for the chemical
industry. This review article provides an overview on this specialty oil, covering its production …

Already for a long time, plant oils and their derivatives have been used by polymer chemists
due to their renewable nature, world wide availability, relatively low price, and their rich …

Objectives Despite considerable progress in intensive care management of the acute
respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), little is known about health-related quality of life in long-…

Influences of particle size on surface-enhancement processes are discussed in terms of a
simple physical model. When the size of a silver sphere is increased, the magnitude of the …

Environmentally friendly products and procedures are being developed both in industry and
academia, mainly due to the depletion of fossil resources and the growing global …

Combination of the Passerini three component-reaction (3CR) and olefin metathesis led to
the formation of poly[1-(alkyl carbamoyl)alkyl alkanoates], a new class of polyesters with …

As part of the Puerto Rico Dust Experiment (PRIDE), airborne and surface dust particle samples
from Africa were collected and subjected to bulk elemental and single‐particle analysis. …