Part I. Introduction to supercritical fluid technology: critical conditions and basis of supercritical processingSustainable Processing and Nanomanufacturing; Concepcion Domingo Fundamentals of Supercritical Fluids and the Role of Modeling; Lourdes F. Vega A Statistical Mechanical Equation of State for Predicting Critical Properties of Confined Fluids; Eldred Chimowitz and Pedro Lopez-ArangurenPart II. Supercritical CO2 precipitation methodsGeneral Description of Non-Reactive Precipitation Methods; Concepcion Domingo Phase Equilibria, Densities and Viscosities of Carbon Dioxide plus Poly(ethylene glycol) Mixtures for Particle Formation Applications; Masayuki Iguchi, Yoshiyuki Sato, and Richard Lee Smith Jr.Methods for Particles Production: Antisolvent Techniques; Pascale Subra-Paternault Development of Hybrid Structured Particles Prepared through PGSS (R) Process; Vanessa S. S. Goncalves and Catarina M. M. DuartePreparation of Water Soluble Formulations of Hydrophobic Active Compounds by Emulsion Template Processes; Angel Martin, Esther de Paz, Facundo Mattea, and M. Jose CoceroPart III. Introduction to reactive processes in supercritical fluids: scCO2 as a reagent or as a solvent Strategies for scCO2 Technology; Concepcion DomingoInnovations in Organic Synthesis in scCO2: The Schiff Base Reaction and a Ship-in-a-Bottle Approach for the Preparation of Hybrid Materials; Ana M. Lopez-Periago, Nerea Murillo, and Concepcion Domingo Supercritical CO2 for the Reactive Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate: Uses and Applications to Industrial Processing; Concepcion Domingo, Ana M. Lopez, Julio. Fraile, and Ana HidalgoPart IV. Polymer modification in supercritical carbon dioxide: foaming and impregnationPolymer Processing Using Supercritical Fluid Based Technologies for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Applications; Ana Rita C. Duarte, Joao F. Mano, and Rui L. ReisAn Integrated Supercritical Extraction and Impregnation Process for Production of Antibacterial Scaffolds; Maria A. Fanovich, Jasna Ivanovic, and Philip T. JaegerCompressed Fluids, Porous Polymers and Tissue Engineering; Aurelio Salerno and Concepcion Domingo Polymer Nanocomposites and Nanocomposite Foams in Compressed CO2; David L. Tomasko and Hrishikesh R. MunjPart V. Coating and impregnation processes using dense phase CO2Coating and Impregnation Processes Using Dense Phase CO2; Concepcion Domingo, Carlos A. Garcia-Gonzalez, and Pedro Lopez-ArangurenSupercritical Dyeing; M.Vanesa Fernandez Cid and Geert F. WoerleePart VI: Introduction to characterization: experimental design, process monitoring and products analysisIntroduction to the Analytical Characterization of Materials. Application of Chemometrics to Process Optimization and Data Analysis; Javier SaurinaInteraction of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide with Polymers Studied by Vibrational Spectroscopy; Andrew V. Ewing and Sergei G. KazarianOn-line analytical methods: axisymmetric drop shape analysis; M. Giovanna Pastore Carbone and Ernesto Di Maio