Polymer Nanocomposites: Fabrication to Applications offers readers an up-to-date interpretation of various polymeric nanocomposite materials and technologies via critical reviews.
Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) represent an outstanding class of nanomaterials that have the capability to localize light at the nanoscale by exploiting a phenomenon called localized plasmon resonance.
The scope of this book covers the fundamental background of metal matrix composites (MMCs), their processing and fabrication, testing and characterization, exploration of materials for MMCs and green MMCs, and advancements in all aspects of fabrication, testing, and applications.
This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to high energy electron diffraction and elastic and inelastic scattering of high energy electrons, with particular emphasis on applications to modern electron microscopy.
Crystals have been used for millennia to help promote healing and wellbeing, but with so many crystals out there it can be hard to know where to start.
LCs are self-organized anisotropic fluids that are thermodynamically located between the isotropic liquid and the crystalline phase, exhibiting the fluidity of liquids as well as the long-range lattice order that can only be found in crystalline solids.
LCs are self-organized anisotropic fluids that are thermodynamically located between the isotropic liquid and the crystalline phase, exhibiting the fluidity of liquids as well as the long-range lattice order that can only be found in crystalline solids.
With a focus on advances in metal matrix composite (MMC) fabrications from a theoretical and experimental perspective, this book describes the recent developments in the manufacturing of MMCs, various processing methods and parameters, mechanical properties and synthesis of MMCs.
With a focus on advances in metal matrix composite (MMC) fabrications from a theoretical and experimental perspective, this book describes the recent developments in the manufacturing of MMCs, various processing methods and parameters, mechanical properties and synthesis of MMCs.
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.
Recrystallization and Related Annealing Phenomena, Third Edition, fulfills the information needs of materials scientists in both industry and academia.
The book intends to give a state-of-the-art overview of flexoelectricity, a linear physical coupling between mechanical (orientational) deformations and electric polarization, which is specific to systems with orientational order, such as liquid crystals.
Superplasticity and Grain Boundaries in Ultrafine-Grained Materials, Second Edition, provides cutting-edge modeling solutions surrounding the role of grain boundaries in processes such as grain boundary diffusion, relaxation and grain growth.
Models of Itinerant Ordering in Crystals is devoted to the mathematical description of interesting phenomena which occur in solids, such as ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism and superconductivity.
By introducing the superspace formalism, the methods of structure analysis of incommensurate structures have achieved in the past few years a full maturity.
This volume covers the following areas - phase characterisation using diffraction methods; correction factors in powder diffraction; Rietveld method application; substructure analysis in textured materials; texture inhomogeneity and its determination; new X-ray diffraction methods; small angle scattering studies in crystalline and amorphous solids; X-Ray stress analysis; phase transitions particularly crystallography and pecularities of the reversible martensitic transformation; structure on non-crystalline materials and their crystallisation; structure and properties of new materials.
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).
This book deals with various aspects of aperiodic crystals, quasicrystals, incommensurate crystals, composite crystals, modulated crystals and polytypes.
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.
These proceedings cover topics related to Quasicrystals, including tiling descriptions, high dimensional crystallography, structure studies, metallurgy and phase diagrams, and also properties with special emphasis on dynamics, electronic and mechanical behaviour.
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.
Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) materials are of interest both for their potential in display technology and the fascinating science found in liquid crystals confined to small cavities.
This book deals with the phenomenological theory of first-order structural phase transitions, with a special emphasis on reconstructive transformations in which a group-subgroup relationship between the symmetries of the phases is absent.
This book gives a systematic overview on the scientific fundamentals of crystal growth from the classical phenomenological description to the recent theoretical contributions of statistical physics such as studies on surface roughening and on the pattern formation in the diffusion-limited growth.
Laue-grams are the easiest X-ray diffraction patterns that can be obtained and are very useful for orienting single crystals and finding out the symmetry of a projection.
Quasicrystals: The State of the Art has proven to be a useful introduction to quasicrystals for mathematicians, physicists, materials scientists, and students.
