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EPSRC Reference:	GR/M12735/01
Title:	ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS OF CHEMICALLY SELECTIVE MICROWAVE INDUCED INTERFACIAL EFFECTS
Principal Investigator:	Haswell, Professor S
Other Investigators:	Fletcher, Professor PDI Styring, Professor P
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Department:	Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Hull
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 October 1998	Ends:	30 September 2001	Value (£):	51,487
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Analytical Science
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Tentative experimental and anecdotal evidence exists to support the belief that selective interfacial microwave effects occur in both spectroscopic and dielectic heating processes. These effects are often referred to in the literature as anomalies, artefacts or unknown microwave effects. It is likely that with appropriate experimental equipment, these effects will be found to be due to interfacial polarisation and localised thermal effects relating to interfacial water of hydration. It is speculated that microwaves of variable power and frequency could be exploited analytically to develop molecular sensitive processes, which in turn would enable novel membrane separation methods to be developed. This is seen as a complementary technique to chromatographic and phases separation methodolgy in which electro active molecules such as liquid crystals may prove valuable. Further this type of mechanism could be used to screen compounds for membrane activity which in turn could be related to biological activity. Such a screening technique might prove useful in environmental speciation studies and for isolating cell or lipid favouring compounds in combinatorial chemistry.This project will develop an experimental procedure to elucidate more fully interfacial microwave effects in an attempt to increase the theoretical understanding of such a process and to identify future analytical applications.
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