Materials for Environmental Protection and Energy Application

The MEPEA 2011 Conference focused on various aspects of advances in Materials for Environmental Protection and Energy Applications. Being crucial to the development of environmental protection and energy applications, the peer-reviewed papers encompassed a wide range of research topics and applications. From energy engineering to energy materials and materials for energy storage, from environmental engineering to the mechanics of materials and materials for environmental protection, from biological engineering to biological materials; these and other related topics are included within the compass of this conference.Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).Papers from a September 2011 conference are presented in this two-volume set. Papers are organized in sections on materials for environmental protection and energy applications, materials for biomedical engineering applications, and biology-related materials research in environmental protection. Some specific areas explored include the role of ethylene in the biosynthesis of fatty acid-derived volatiles in tomatoes, fuel ethanol production from wet oxidized corn by S. Cerevisiae, differences in protein content between raw milk and reconstituted milk, protective effects of hyperoside derived from hawthorn against epithelial cell apoptosis, and statistical analysis of the mechanical model of the nucleosome. Other subjects are genetic differentiation and systematic evolution of Sichuan rhesus macaques, bioactive peptides from low denatured peanut dregs, and the effects of nutritional factors on production of bacterial bioactive metabolites against aflatoxin biosynthesis.