Materials / States of matter

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This book provides detailed information on the emerging applications of nanomaterials and nanoparticles within endodontics, highlighting the exciting potential clinical impact of nanotechnology in the field.

This thesis consists of an in-depth study of investigating microstructure-property relationships in bulk metallic glasses using a novel quantitative approach by which influence of the second phase features on mechanical properties can be independently and systematically analyzed.

The essays in this book look at the question of whether physics can be based on information, or - as John Wheeler phrased it - whether we can get "e;It from Bit"e;.

This book addresses a broad spectrum of areas in both hybrid materials and hierarchical composites, including recent development of processing technologies, structural designs, modern computer simulation techniques, and the relationships between the processing-structure-property-performance.

This book offers readers a snapshot of the progression of molecular modeling in the electronics industry and how molecular modeling is currently being used to understand materials to solve relevant issues in this field.

This book presents the science of tensors in a didactic way.

This book addresses the application of methods used in statistical physics to complex systems-from simple phenomenological analogies to more complex aspects, such as correlations, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, the concept of free energy, renormalization group approach and scaling.

This book presents the state of the art in nonlinear nanostructures for ultrafast laser applications.

This book assesses the current development and potential applications of nanoparticle technology in oil industry and explores new research directions in this frontier field.

The focus of this interdisciplinary volume is on four areas of nanoparticle research: characterization, manipulation, and potential effects on humanity and the environment.

This book focuses on the recent progress in nanophotonics technology to be used to develop novel nano-optical devices, fabrication technology and advanced systems.

This volume presents an in-depth review of experimental and theoretical studies on the newly discovered Fe-based superconductors.

This monograph solely investigates the Einstein's Photoemission(EP) from Heavily Doped(HD) Quantized Structures on the basis of newly formulated electron dispersion laws.

This book presents the theory of gas discharge plasmas in a didactical way.

This second edition of a successful and highly-accessed monograph has been extended by more than 100 pages.

This book explains modern and interesting physics in heavy-fermion (HF) compounds to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.

This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics.

This book continues the biannual series of conference proceedings, which has become a classical reference resource in traffic and granular research alike, and addresses the latest developments at the intersection of physics, engineering and computational science.

This book provides an updated review on the development of scanning probe microscopy and related techniques, and the availability of computational techniques not even imaginable a few decades ago.

These lecture notes present a concise and introductory, yet as far as possible coherent, view of the main formalizations of quantum mechanics and of quantum field theories, their interrelations and their theoretical foundations.

This book reviews the phenomenology displayed by relativistic jets as well as the most recent theoretical efforts to understand the physical mechanisms at their origin.

This brief offers a concise presentation of granular fluids from the point of view of non-equilibrium statistical physics.

This book focuses on new research fields of diamond, from its growth to applications.

Quantum correlations are not restricted to the well known entanglement investigated in Bell-type experiments.

This book proposes a radically new approach for characterizing thermophysical and mechanical properties of zeolite-based adsorbent coatings for Adsorptive Heat Transformers (AHT).

In the never-ending quest for miniaturization, optically controlled particle trapping has opened up new possibilities for handling microscopic matter non-invasively.

This is a comprehensive textbook designed forgraduate and advanced undergraduate students.

This thesis approaches impact resistance in dense suspensions from a new perspective.

Given the rapid advances in the field, this book offers an up-to-date introduction to nanomaterials and nanotechnology.

This book covers the history of lasers with nuclear pumping (Nuclear Pumped Lasers, NPLs).

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This course-tested textbook conveys the fundamentals of magnetic fields and relativistic plasma in diffuse cosmic media, with a primary focus on phenomena that have been observed at different wavelengths.

In the second half of the last century solid state physics and materials science experienced a great advance and established itself as an important and independent new field.

This book presents the Einstein Relation(ER) in two-dimensional (2-D) Heavily Doped (HD) Quantized Structures.

A quantum computer is a computer based on a computational model which uses quantum mechanics, which is a subfield of physics to study phenomena at the micro level.

Synergetics is the quantitative study of multicomponent systems that exhibit nonlinear dynamics and cooperativity.

A dense sheet of electrons accelerated to close to the speed of light can act as a tuneable mirror that can generate bright bursts of laser-like radiation in the short wavelength range simply via the reflection of a counter-propagating laser pulse.

This volume on Ultrafast Magnetism is a collection of articles presented at the international "e;Ultrafast Magnetization Conference"e; held at the Congress Center in Strasbourg, France, from October 28th to November 1st, 2013.

This thesis presents studies on the interaction of soft materials like surfactants and proteins with hard silica nanomaterials.

The last decade has witnessed the discovery of, and dramatic progress in understanding the physics of graphene and related two-dimensional materials.

Superfluidity - and closely related to it, superconductivity - are very general phenomena that can occur on vastly different energy scales.

This book describes the physics of the second-generation quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), a fundamental method of analysis for soft matter at interfaces.

Entransy in Phase-Change Systems summarizes recent developments in the area of entransy, especially on phase-change processes.

Ge and III-V compounds, semiconductors with high carrier mobilities, are candidates to replace Si as the channel in MOS devices.

This thesis presents recent developments in magnetic coupling phenomena of ferrimagnetic rare-earth transition-metal Tb-Fe alloys and coupled systems consisting of ferri-/ferromagnetic heterostructures.

Quantum information science has found great experimental success by exploiting single photons.

Matter-wave interferometry is a promising and successful way to explore truly macroscopic quantum phenomena and probe the validity of quantum theory at the borderline to the classic world.

Magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are finding their place in many modern technologies such as electronics (memory or spintronic devices) and medicine (contrast media, electromagnetic thermal therapy) to name just a few examples.