High Performance Polymers Published

This new book by Johannes Fink (author of Reactive Polymers) is a unique and fresh look at the creation, fabrication, and application of high performance polymers.  This book is important reading for anyone in the following industries:  automotive; aerospace; coatings; electrical and electronics; sensors; fuel cells; vacuum technology; gas separation; data storage; medical instruments and even cookware manufacturing. Anyone trying to discover and apply new high performance polymers in their designs, materials, and products should read this book.

Safety and Security Reviews for the Process Industries, 2nd Edition

This new book describes the application of major safety reviews used in the process industries and how they can be adapted for security vulnerability analyses.  It is the second edition of a best-selling title published originally under the Noyes imprint (0-8155-1353-4) that was entitled “Applications of HAZOP and What-If Safety Reviews to the Petroleum, Petrochemical and Chemical Industries.”  The author, Dennis Nolan, is well known in the process industries for his wealth of knowledge of fire protection engineering, risk engineering, loss prevention engineering, and system safety engineering.

New Series Editor Named

William Andrew is pleased to announce that Peter Martin, immediate past-president of the Society of Vacuum Coaters and editor of the upcoming third edition of Handbook of Thin Film Deposition Technologies (2009), has accepted the position as Series Editor for the Materials Science and Process Technology series.

Dr. Martin recently retired from Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory where he specialized in developing thin film coatings for energy, biomedical, space and defense applications.  He has written over 200 technical publications, won three R&D 100 Awards for his work in microfabrication and barrier coatings for flat panel displays, two FLC awards, and PNNL 2005 Inventor of the Year.  He has more than 20 patents in microtechnology, coatings technology, thermoelectrics and barrier coatings.