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Preface The present review and study was prepared following my presentation at the First Indo-US Workshop on Mathematical Chemistry (January 9-13, 1998) at the Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India (see workshop history on page of the sixth workshop, 2010). This was a very special meeting for me. First of all, I just arrived in time for my presentation, two days later than expected due to thick fog in Delhi. But I was not the only one. I was relieved when I finally made it to Kolkata and boarded the train there to Santiniketan. On the train I ran into fog-delayed late-comers of graph-theoretical fame from Great Britain and Australia and then I knew I was on the right path. Socializing in the warmth and sunshine in the hotel gardens with the other attendees felt surreal after having left the dripping icicles in Freiberg a few days earlier. The final highlight, following the workshop, was the visit of Agra and the Taj Mahal with some of the workshop participants. The workshop was a pleasant opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones. I was excited when I received a letter from Prof. R. K. Mohanty suggesting the publication of a monograph on Some Aspects of Mathematical Chemistry with broad based articles, introducing different aspects of the subject, primarily for the Indian audience. The present article was furnished accordingly. However, for reasons that were never made completely transparent to me, the monograph never materialized as envisioned. Hence, I decided to publish my contribution independently herein. In the first place, I want to thank Prof. Subhash C. Basak at the University of Minnesota in Duluth (USA) for inviting me to the First Indo-US Workshop. My thanks also go to Prof. Mohanty for giving the current paper a start. I also like to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn (Germany) for its support through the SFB 285/B3 Grant. This special research fund (SFB stands for Sonderforschungsbereich) with the title Particle Interactions in Process Engineering: Fundamentals and Application included a project on the self-organization of amphiphilic molecules on particle surfaces. The current article is based on my work within that project. Further, the encouragement and helpful suggestions of Prof. H.-J. Mögel at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Mining and Technology in Freiberg (Saxony), Uwe Reimer, Olaf Seidel, and Frank Bagusat (then at the same department) and Mirco Wahab at the Chemistry Department of the University in Halle (Saxony-Anhalt) are gratefully acknowledged. |
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By Axel Drefahl See abstract and complete review as pdf-document: www.axeleratio.com/axel/reviewMCS.pdf |
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