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Chemical Engineering Books

The Many Lives of Carbon
by Dag Olav Hessen
Review
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C Mann
Review
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
by Kate Cole-Adams
Review
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by Daniel Raimi
Review
Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia
by Henry Jay Przybylo
Review
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
by Juli Berwald
Review
Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
by Catherine Carver
Review
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
by Jennifer A Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
Review
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
Fuel Cells
by Paul Breeze
Review
The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
by Chris Goodall
Review
Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Second Edition
by Larry R. Dalton, Sam-Shajing Sun
Review
Network Science
by Albert-László Barabási
Review
Science Calling: Climate, Environment, Energy: (there is hope)
by Vladimir Panjkovic
Review
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth
by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Review
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
Review
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Material Series)
by Ashutosh Tiwari, Lokman Uzun
Review
Photonics and Electronics with Germanium
by Kazumi Wada and Lionel C. Kimerling
Review
The Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry: Principles and Practice
by Simon Campbell
Review
OLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
by Daniel J. Gaspar and Evgueni Polikarpov
Review
Studyguide for Sea-Level Science: Understanding Tides, Surges, Tsunamis and Mean Sea-Level Changes
by David Pugh
Review
Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
by Seth M. Siegel
Review
Applied Minds – How Engineers Think
by Guru Madhavan
Review
Handbook of Polymer Crystallization
by Ewa Piorkowska and Gregory C. Rutledge
Review
Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
by William L. Murphy, Bing Xu, Sarah Heilshorn, Roanne Jones, Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, Rein Ulijn, Bernice Wright, Che J. Connon, and Ian W. Hamley
Review
Falling Behind?: Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent
by Michael S. Teitelbaum
Review
Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
by Zoraida Aguilar
Review
The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050
by Rafael Cayuela Valencia
Review
Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
by Andreas Lendlein and Adam Sisson
Review
Fundamental Principles of Polymeric Materials
by Christopher S. Brazel and Stephen L. Rosen
Review
Handbook of Plasticizers
by George Wypych
Computer Modeling for Injection Molding: Simulation, Optimization, and Control
by Huamin Zhou
Review
Biomass-Based Biocomposites
by Vijay Kumar Thakur
Review
Biomimetic Biomaterials: Structure and Applications
by Andrew J. Ruys
Review
Organic Light-emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Materials, Devices and Applications
by Alastair Buckley
Review
Peptide Synthesis and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology)
by Knud J. Jensen, Pernille Tofteng Shelton, Søren L. Pedersen
Review
Advanced Thermoforming: Methods, Machines and Materials, Applications and Automation
by Sven Engelmann
Review
Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces: Synchrotron X-ray Methods
by Peter S. Pershan and Mark Schlossman
Review
Environmentally-Friendly Polymer Nanocomposites
by Suprakas Sinha Ray
Review
Biomaterials and Medical Tribology: Research and Development
by J. Paulo Davim
Review
Dendrimers, Dendrons, and Dendritic Polymers: Discovery, Applications, and the Future
by Donald A. Tomalia, Jørn B. Christensen, and Ulrik Boas
Review
Biosensor Nanomaterials
by He Li, Ipsita A. Banerjee, Jagdish Singh, Songjun Li
Review
Fuel Cells: Current Technology Challenges and Future Research Needs
by Noriko Hikosaka Behling
Review
Principles of Asymmetric Synthesis, 2nd Edition
by Robert Gawley and Jeffrey Aube
Review
Materials Science of DNA
by Jung-II Jin and James Grote
Review
Problems in Structural Inorganic Chemistry
by Wai-Kee Li, Yu-San Cheung, Kendrew Kin Wah Mak, and Thomas Chung Wai Mak
Review
Experiment!: Planning, Implementing and Interpreting
by Oivind Andersson
Review
Nuclear and Radiochemistry
by József Kónya and Noémi M Nagy
Review
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
by Richard Dawkins
Review
The Impact Factor of Scientific and Scholarly Journals: Its Use and Misuse in Research Evaluation
by Tibor Braun
Review
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
Review
Supercritical Water
by Yizhak Marcus
Review

Articles

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Trump administration takes first steps toward drilling in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
Chemical makers call for talks to resolve trade tiff with China
Fracking may have political support, but it still needs a ‘social licence’
I asked UK government why it’s spending £25 billion dismantling oil platforms – here’s the reply
North Carolina regulators seek court order against Chemours’s fluoroether pollution
USDA greenlights gene-edited crops
Oil to solar: Saudis push to be renewable energy powerhouse
Shell Grappled with Climate Change 20 Years Ago, Documents Show
View from India: India’s coastline being tapped for sea trade
National Flood Insurance Is Underwater Because of Outdated Science
World’s biggest battery in Australia to trump Musk’s
Cyber strikes, cable cutting and ‘turning off the taps’: how Russia could harm the UK
Not-so-fantastic plastic: Europe is ready to shake up the plastics industry to resolve its failure to recycle
Why Do Fishing Vessels ‘Go Dark’ In Certain Regions of the Ocean?
This US$320 million ice wall in Fukushima is doing a terrible job stopping radioactive water
China’s Power Move
Poorest households hit hardest by UK climate change levy despite using least energy
Ammonia creation and conversion technology cleans up diesel
Bipartisan bill would authorize U.S. EPA to scale down HFCs
3M to pay $850 million to settle fluorosurfactants lawsuit
Engineering needs creative thinking to widen the talent pool
To Protect Ocean Life, Marine Reserves Have to Be Redrawn Based on Science
The EU wants to fight climate change – so why is it spending billions on a gas pipeline?
Brexit will hit aerospace and automotive the hardest, says report
France to shutter all coal-fired power plants by 2021
Utilities Bury More Transmission Lines to Prevent Storm Damage
EU to lower limit for bisphenol A migration from food packaging
Commercial electric pulse fishing should be banned for now
The Research and Innovation Talent Visa
Company, Idaho regulators at odds over battery storage plan
Science for a resilient EU power grid
Trump administration delays bans of toxic solvents
Trump’s Five Biggest Energy Blunders in 2017
California company gets FCC approval for at-a-distance device charging
China creates world’s largest carbon trading program
EU’s chlorine makers end mercury-based production
EPSRC Council seeking further applications from industrialists with a strong engineering background
Hundreds of German universities set to lose access to Elsevier journals
UK can stay part of pan-EU science projects after Brexit, Brussels declares
EPA works with industry to streamline chemical reviews
9 Countries and the EU Are Protecting the Arctic Ocean From Fishing Before the Ice Melts
Year of Engineering targets outdated perceptions and lack of workforce diversity
IMechE has ‘real concerns’ government will not meet career benchmark costings
Mexico Designates North America’s Largest Ocean Reserve
Apprenticeships fall by 59% after levy introduced
Brexit reality hits U.K. chemical companies
The chemical industry must plan better for severe weather, U.S. Chemical Safety Board says
Government announces that 2018 will be the Year of Engineering
‘Exceptional’ tech workers sought under expanded visas scheme

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