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Preface xiii

As we are well aware of the fact that not many readers do have time to
read a book like this cover to cover, we always have tried to present the
material in nearly self-contained separate chapters. For this reason we also
have provided the literature separately for each chapter being aware of the
fact that some books and papers on gas adsorption may have been cited more
than once.

Acknowledgements

It is now our pleasure to express our grateful thanks to all of our
undergraduate and graduate students who have been engaged in project work
at IFT in the field of gas adsorption during the years (1984-2004). Among
them especially the contributions of F. Dreisbach, N. Iossifova, H. Rave,
M. Seelbach and M. Tomalla are highly appreciated.

Thanks for cooperation and discussions at international conferences (FOA,
COPS, PBCAST) and at private meetings are due to our colleagues

W. Arlt J. Kärger D. M. Ruthven
G. V. Baron K. Kaneko A. Sakoda
W. Bongartz H. von Kienle M. Sakuth
St. Brandani K. S. Knaebel Sh. Sircar
J. Cyprian K.-F. Krebs F. Stoeckli
D. D. Do E. Krumm D. Sunderer
J. Fritzsche M. D. Le Van M. Suzuki
L. Fuller H.-W. Lösch O. Talu
U. von Gemmingen F. Metz M. Thommes
A. Guillot P. Monson K. Unger
Ch. Haynes A. L. Myers R. T. Yang
R. He A. W. Neimark H. Yoshida
K.-D. Henning B. Roehl-Kuhn Li Zhou
U. Hoffmann J. Rouquerol W. Zimmermann
M. Jaroniec W. Rudzinski

Special thanks are given to W. A. Steele, College Park, for reading the
manuscript of the book and helping to improve the English wording. Thanks
are also due to J. M. Prausnitz, Berkeley and J. A. Clark, Ann Arbor, USA,
for reading chapter 3, Gravimetry, of the manuscript and contributing
valuable hints and remarks to its contents.
Special tribute is also paid to K. S. W. Sing, Exeter, UK for several
stimulating lectures given at IFT during (1992-1998) and also for discussions
on fundamental aspects of gas adsorption systems.