tailieunhanh - MODIFIED FIBERS WITH MEDICAL AND SPECIALTY APPLICATIONS

The initial impetus for this book on fibers originated from a weeklong symposium where scientists of a variety of walks met to discuss their work on fibers with medical and specialty applications. Seeing the benefits of sharing information across disparate fields and disciplines of science we realized the potential for cross-fertilization of ideas between different area of fiber science. Thus, represented here are a variety of potential product lines under the cover of a single book, which for the imaginative scientist we hope will lead to some new food for thought | MODIFIED FIBERS WITH MEDICAL AND SPECIALTY APPLICATIONS Modified Fibers with Medical and Specialty Applications Edited by J. VINCENT EDWARDS Southern Regional Research Center New Orleans LA . GISELA BUSCHLE-DILLER Auburn University Aburn AL . and STEVEN C. GOHEEN Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA . A . Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-10 1-4020-3793-7 HB ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3793-1 HB ISBN-10 1-4020-3794-5 e-book ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3794-8 e-book Published by Springer . Box 17 3300 Aa Dordrecht The Netherlands. www. springer com Printed on acid-free paper All rights reserved. Q 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying microfilming recording or otherwise without written permission from the Publisher with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the .