Description:
Covering the most important supramolecular technologies within a single volume, this book provides a comprehensive introduction for both newcomers to the field and for specialists who are looking for new applications. Internationally recognized specialists in the different fields describe in detail the most promising but already established techniques, including biotechnology, decontamination, environmental control, biomedical analyses/monitoring, supramolecular electronics, and intelligent materials. The text offers a complete overview of important applications in supramolecular chemistry, which hold particular promise for future developments.
Review Quotes:
"The time is ripe for the present volume, which gathers thorough presentations of the numerous actually realized or potentially accessible applications of supramolecular chemistry by a number of the leading figures in the field. The variety of topics covered is witness to the diversity of the approaches and the areas of implementation...a broad and timely panorama of the field assembling an eminent roster of contributors."
--Jean-Marie Lehn, 1987 Noble Prize Winner in Chemistry