RSC Books Blog

As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic passes and the new museum for the Mary Rose  prepares to open in Portsmouth shipwrecks are once again in the limelight, but have you ever wondered how the treasures from sunken ships are preserved?

Find out what happens behind the scenes to preserve our histories in Conservation Science: Heritage Materials edited by Eric May, University of Portsmouth and Mark Jones, The Mary Rose Trust. Discover how it’s possible for the timber of a 500 year old ship like the Mary Rose and its cast bronze guns have survived.

Discover the treasures now!

The RSC US University Roadshow kicks off today at the University of California – Irvine. Over the week, we will be visiting four universities in California:

April 16th – University of California Irvine
April 17th – University of California Los Angeles
April 18th – University of California Santa Barbara
April 20th – University of California Berkeley

At each University, Books Commissioning Editors, Janet Freshwater and Merlin Fox will be on hand to show you RSC’s apps on mobile devices and talk about our newest books. Join them for lunch and debate the reading habits in the 21st Century. And find out more from Managing Editor Sarah Ruthven about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

Read more about our US Roadshows 2012. 

You can also follow the RSC Roadshows on Twitter – just look for #RSC2012.

After California the tour will continue onto Illinois, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York – find out more about where we’ll be.

Being able to see inside the human body has transformed modern medicine. With many researchers seeking new biomedical imaging applications for patient screening, diagnosis and monitoring, clinical research and in the development of new therapeutic drugs, it’s hard to get a view of the field as a whole.

For April’s Book of the Month we’ve selected Biomedical Imaging: The Chemistry of Labels, Probes and Contrast Agents edited by Martin Braddock, AstraZeneca, to help those of you already working in or new to the field to find out more about developments in medical imaging. Let the experts from industry and academia show you the recent advances in biomedical imaging including the design and synthesis of contrast agents, optical imaging techniques and physical techniques.

Take a closer look at biomedical imaging – access the content now.

Want to know more about current research in Drug Discovery? See the RSC Drug Discovery Series for more titles.

We’re publishing so much great content – it’s easy to miss out on titles! To help you each month we will highlight one of our specially chosen books in the new “RSC Book of the Month”.

To kick start the new RSC Book of the Month we have selected a truly colourful book, Chromic Phenomena: Technological Applications of Colour Chemistry by Peter Bamfield and Michael G Hutchings.

Without most of us realising it, chromic phenomena plays an important role in many applications, from the well known things like paint and textile colouring but also for optical data storage, photomedicine, solar energy, thermal printing and smart windows.

Chemistry can be colourful – let us show you how.

For a complete overview of the exciting applications of colour chemistry access the content now.

Interested in similar books? See our new Series RSC Smart Materials

The analysis of protein phosphorylation using mass spectrometry has lead to impressive progress in the field. Almost any concept of analytical proteomics by mass spectrometry can be exampled by protein phosphorylation analysis.

Protein Phosphorylation by Mass Spectrometry guides the reader through this prolific field by presenting a collection of personal views and selected examples which cover all the important principles with a focus on electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. It covers: phosphorylation analysis at the peptide, protein and proteome level; manual and automated data evaluation; phosphopeptide enrichment; quantitative aspects; element mass spectrometry; individual analytical strategies, and hints to useful internet resources.

Gathering together all the key information, Wolf Lehman (German Cancer Research Center) presents a powerful guide to understanding the analytical concepts of mass spectrometry and its use in protein analysis. Lehman has been working in this area for many years and has contributed greatly to the development of mass spectrometry as a tool in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of proteins in a discrete, dedicated, and systematic manner.

Students and experienced researchers alike will benefit from the knowledge and method presented in this book.

Keen to learn more? Why not read the preface?

Here in the UK it’s traditional to make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday to use up any eggs, milk, and sugar to stop them from being wasted during lent.

Today food wastage is a major concern as an estimated 50% of the food produced globally is wasted. Each year in the UK alone, 18 million tonnes (£14 billion worth) of edible household food is thrown out. In this new book, Transforming Food Waste into a Resource , Andrea Segre and Silvia Gaiani present various practical and efficient solutions for the food wastage problem from different ventures around the world.

Be part of the solution – find out more by getting your copy today.

Looking for something to go with your pancake?

Pre-order your copy of the new edition of the Science of Ice Cream!

This Valentine’s Day many of us will buy chocolates or perfume as gifts for our loved ones.

But have you ever wondered why we love chocolate so much or why we’re attracted to different scents?

The answers can all be found in the bestselling RSC Books: 

The Science of Chocolate and The Chemistry of Fragrances

Get your copy today and let science help you choose the right gift!

The 6th Workshop on Crystal Forms will be held in Bologna from the 19th to 21st  January 2012. The workshop will bring together scientists from industry and academia to discuss the issues at the forefront of this growing field of research from crystal structure prediction, crystal engineering, synthesis of new crystal forms, polymorphs, solvates and co-crystals screening to the intellectual property issues of interest to pharma companies.

The meeting is organized by Professor Dario Braga’s group, Molecular Crystal Engineering,  University of Bologna and by PolyCrystalLine s.r.l., the company expert on crystal forms.

For further information visit: http://www.polycrystalline.it/sezioni.asp?cat=9

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Now Published

Membrane Engineering for the Treatment of Gases

Edited By Enrico Drioli and Giuseppe Barbieri

This two-volume set presents the state-of-the-art in membrane engineering for the separation of gases. It addresses future developments in carbon capture and utilization, H2 production and purification and O2/N2 separation. Topics covered include: applications of membrane gas separation in the petrochemical industry, implementation of membrane processes for post-combustion capture, commercial applications of membranes in gas separations, simulation of membrane systems for CO2 capture, design and development of membrane reactors for industrial applications, Pd-based membranes in hydrogen production and purification, novel hybrid membrane/pressure swing adsorption process  for gas separation, molecular dynamics as a new tool for membrane design and the physical aging of membranes for gas separations.

Volume One  focuses predominantly on gas-separation problems relating to membranes and Volume Two on gas-separation problems combined with membrane reactors. Both volumes will be essential reading for all those involved in chemical, petrochemical , environmental and energy engineering. 

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