Hybrid materials formed by the combination of inorganic components with organic polymers have emerged as a rapidly expanding and internationally competitive field research in polymer science. These show great promise many important applications where control surface properties, well structure interfacial interactions between two primary components, are determinant. In this paper, we present rev...

R.D. Anbar (ed.), Functional Respiratory Disorders: When Respiratory Symptoms Do Not Respond to Pulmonary Treatment, Respiratory Medicine, DOI 10.1007/978-1-61779-857-3_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract The management of respiratory diseases with organic causes often can be complicated by the emergence of concurrent functional respiratory symptoms. Thus, clinicians must be...