Modern Trends in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

This book covers a collection of topics that reflect the diversity of modern trends in chemistry and chemical engineering. It presents leading-edge research from some of the brightest and most well known scientists from around the world. Contributions range from new methods to novel applications of existing methods to give readers an understanding of the material and/or structural behavior of new and advanced systems. The book offers a broad scope of new research for academics, researchers, and engineering professionals, which has potential for applications in several disciplines of engineering and science.

Topics include:

• Time evolution of the electronegativity and its various scales and the interrelationship between electronegativity and other periodic parameters
• The starch nanocomposite and nanoparticles and its biomedical applications
• The lamination of nanofiber at different temperatures
• Electrospinning of chitosan (CHT) and how it can be improved by the addition of synthetic materials including carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
• Smart nanofibers based on nylon 6,6/polyethylene glycol blend
• Nano-biocomposites with chitosan matrix and carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
• Polypyrrole-coated polyacrylonitrile electrospun nanofibers
• Semi-empirical AM-1 studies on porphyrin, which include global reactivity parameters, local reactivity parameters, and atomic charge

Dr. A. K. Haghi holds a BSc in engineering from University of North Carolina (USA), a MSc in mechanical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University (USA), a DEA in applied mechanics, acoustics, and materials from Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (France), and a PhD in engineering sciences from Universite de Franche-Comte (France). He is the author and editor of 40 books, as well as 650 papers in various journals and conference proceedings. Since 1983, he served as professor in several universities. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and is on the editorial boards of many international journals. He is Dean of College of Engineering in University of Guilan (Iran).