Crystallography

Summarizing the recent advances in high strain rate testing, this book discusses techniques for designing, executing, analyzing, and interpreting the results of experiments involving the dynamic behavior of multifunctional materials such as metals, polymers, fiber-reinforced polymers, hybrid laminates and so forth.

Solid State Chemistry: An Introduction 5th edition is a fully revised edition of one of our most successful textbooks with at least 20% new information.

An excellent book for professional crystallographers!

New materials addressed for the first time include the chapters on minerals by Barber et al and the chapter on dislocations in colloidal crystals by Schall and Spaepen.

Evolutionally optimized biomolecules and their complexes present attractive objects in the production of functionalized nanoobjects.

The content of this volume has been added to eMagRes (formerly Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance) - the ultimate online resource for NMR and MRI.

This volume covers all scientific aspects relating to quasicrystals, such as tilings, generalized crystallography, sample preparation, structure determination, the growth mechanism, phase transition, and physical and chemical properties (including electronic, dynamical and mechanical properties).

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: Including Actinides, Volume 64, the latest release in this continuous series that covers all aspects of rare earth science, including chemistry, life sciences, materials science and physics, presents interesting chapters on a variety of topics, with this release including sections on Structure and properties of Ln2M3Ge5 compounds, Giant magnetocaloric effect materials, Lanthanide-based single-molecule magnets, and Magnetic Refrigeration with Lanthanide-Based Materials.

Volume 7 continues the tradition of previous volumes in this series by presenting cutting-edge and current advances in atomic spectroscopy.

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie.

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: Including Actinides, Volume 62, the latest release in this continuous series that covers all aspects of rare earth science, including chemistry, life sciences, materials science and physics, presents interesting chapters on a variety of topics, with this release including sections on Lanthanide calixarene complexes and their applications, Recent developments in lanthanide-based single-molecule magnets, Rare earth permanent magnets, and the Importance of Ligand Design in Lanthanide Azamacrocyclic Complexes Relevant to Biomedical Applications.

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie.

Methods and the latest results of experimental studies of the strength properties, polymorphism and metastable states of materials and substances with extremely short durations of shock-wave action are presented.

Superplasticity is a state in which solid crystalline materials, such as some fine-grained metals, are deformed well beyond their usual breaking point.

This title gives an overview of composites and biocomposites.

Studying (bio)degradable polymers value chain can help one understand the importance of these to the environment and human health.

Multi-component crystalline systems or co-crystals have received tremendous attention from academia and industry alike in the past decade.

This monograph provides the first extensive treatment of magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS).

This book gives the complete theory of the irreducible representations of the crystallographic point groups and space groups.

Vol 2A: Basic TechnologiesHandbook of Crystal Growth, Second Edition Volume IIA (Basic Technologies) presents basic growth technologies and modern crystal cutting methods.

The discovery of the spatial structure of the double-stranded DNA molecule is one of the greatest achievements of science.

Despite the large quantity of phenomenological information concerning the bulk properties of nematic phase liquid crystals, little is understood about the origin of the surface energy, particularly the surface, interfacial, and anchoring properties of liquid crystals that affect the performance of liquid crystal devices.

Knowledge of the microscopic structure of biological systems is the key to understanding their physiological properties.

This book presents the application of Polymer-Silica Based Composites in the Construction Industry providing the fundamental framework and knowledge needed for the sustainable and efficient use of these composites as building and structural materials.

The apatites and related calcium phosphates have been of considerable interest to biologists, mineralogists, and inorganic and industrial chemists for many years.

This book is your graduate level entrance into battery, fuel cell and solar cell research at synchrotron x-ray sources and free electron lasers.

This book is your graduate level entrance into battery, fuel cell and solar cell research at synchrotron x-ray sources and free electron lasers.

'The overall book content is excellently coordinated to form a synchronised story, interesting to a broad scientific audience .

The papers presented here reflect the core of the scientific activities that took place at the 1994 E-MRS conference.

Nanofibers are possible solutions for a wide spectrum of research and commercial applications and utilizing inexpensive bio-renewable and agro waste materials to produce nanofibers can lower manufacturing cost via electrospinning.

This book highlights the role and mechanism of different metal nanocomposites toward oxidative stress-induced metabolic disorders including metabolic pathways affected by oxidative stress and related pathophysiology.

There is no question that the field of solid state electronics, which essentially began with work at Bell laboratories just after World War II, has had a profound impact on today's Society.

Continuous crystallization is an area of intense research, with particular respect to the pharmaceutical industry and fine chemicals.

Polymeric foams or cellular or expanded polymers have characteristics that makes their usage possible for several industrial and household purposes.

A new edition of the highly readable textbook applying the fundamentals of crystallography, symmetry and diffraction to a range of materials.

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie.

The proposed book focusses on the theme of failure of polymer composites, focusing on vital aspects of enhancing failure resistance, constituents and repair including associated complexities.

A composite sandwich panel is a hybrid material made up of constituents such as a face sheet, a core, and adhesive film for bonding the face sheet and core together.

In this volume the following topics are discussed: existing and potential applications of quasicrystals, surface and interface properties of quasicrystals, and potential new quasicrystalline materials.

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics (linear and non linear).

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens.

These volumes are a result of the personal research and graduate lectures given by the authors at the ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and the University of Paris VII, respectively.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

Discrete Element Methods (DEM) is a numerical technique for analysing the mechanics and physics of particulate systems.

This volume aims to provide a thorough treatment of the phenomena of elastic anisostropy and a discussion on dislocation mobilities.

Discusses polymer nanocomposites composed of a family of polymeric materials whose properties are capable of being tailored to meet specific applications.

The conference promotes the theoretical and methodological development of crystallographic investigations of aperiodic crystals including modulated structures, polytypes, incommensurate misfit or composite crystals and quasi crystals.

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father, William thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Cyclodextrins can form complexes with a wide variety of organic and inorganic compounds, a property which can prove useful when trying to separate complex mixtures.

A new edition of a classic text introducing metamorphic rocks and how they form, in full colour and thoroughly updated.