Materials / States of matter

A comprehensive review of ion beam application in modern materials research is provided, including the basics of ion beam physics and technology.

A detailed overview and comprehensive analysis of the main theoretical and experimental advances on free surface thin film and jet flows of soft matter is given.

Theories of surface waves develop since the end of XIX century and many fundamental problems like existence, phase and group velocities, attenuation (quality factor), mode conversion, etc.

Die vierte Auflage dieses bewährten Lehrbuches bietet eine moderne Einführung in die Grundlagen der Werkstoffwissenschaften.

Nanotechnology has been established in membrane technology for decades.

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

This book covers smart polymer nanocomposites with perspectives for application in energy harvesting, as self-healing materials, or shape memory materials.

This book presents a unified view of the response of materials as a result of femtosecond laser excitation, introducing a general theory that captures both ultrashort-time non-thermal and long-time thermal phenomena.

This book presents a collection of invited research and review contributions on recent advances in (mainly) theoretical condensed matter physics, theoretical chemistry, and theoretical physics.

This book gathers contributions on a variety of flowing collective systems.

This book provides expert coverage of the current state of the art in the application of nanotechnologies to cellulose research.

This thesis introduces a unique approach of applying atomic force microscopy to study the nanoelectromechanical properties of 2D materials, providing high-resolution computer-generated imagery (CGI) and diagrams to aid readers' understanding and visualization.

This book provides for the first time an insider's view into ITER, the biggest fusion reactor in the world, which is currently being constructed in southern France.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the field of holographic entanglement entropy.

This book describes radionanomedicine as an integrated medicine using exogenous and endogenous This book describes radionanomedicine as an integrated approach that uses exogenous and endogenous nanomaterials for in vivo and human applications.

This book brings together the many concepts and discoveries in liquid crystal colloids contributed over the last twenty years and scattered across numerous articles and book chapters.

This thesis contains three breakthrough results in condensed matter physics.

Lieb-Robinson bounds for multi-commutators are effective mathematical tools to handle analytic aspects of infinite volume dynamics of non-relativistic quantum particles with short-range, possibly time-dependent interactions.

This book presents a comprehensive theoretical study of the electromagnetic eigenwaves propagating perpendicular to the axis of symmetry in various cylindrical waveguide-structures filled with magneto-active plasma.

This book covers diverse areas in which nanoscience and nanotechnology have led to significant technological advances and practical applications, with special emphasis on novel types of nanomaterials and their applicability into a new generation of nano- and micro-devices.

This book reviews progress towards quantum simulators based on photonic and hybrid light-matter systems, covering theoretical proposals and recent experimental work.

This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world.

This book covers the optical and electrical properties of nanoscale materials with an emphasis on how new and unique material properties result from the special nature of their electronic band structure.

This book presents a collection of cross-disciplinary research, with contributions addressing all key features of the plant/microbe/ENP nexus in agro-ecosystems.

The book has been designed as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate students of physics, material science, and engineering.

This book describes new trends in the nanoscience of isotopic materials science.

This thesis investigates the effect of the magnetic field on propagating surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), or surface plasmons for short.

This book discusses the effects, modeling, latest results, and nanotechnology applications of rainbows that appear during channeling of charged particles in crystals and nanotubes.

This book teaches solid state physics in a comprehensive way, covering all areas.

This concise book offers an essential introduction and reference guide for the many newcomers to the field of physics of elemental 2D materials.

This third volume describes continuous bodies treated as classical (Boltzmann) and spin (Cosserat) continua or fluid mixtures of such bodies.

This thesis presents optical methods to split the energy levels of electronic valleys in transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) by means of coherent light-matter interactions.

This compact but exhaustive textbook, now in its significantly revised and expanded second edition, provides an essential introduction to the field quantization of light and matter with applications to atomic physics and strongly correlated systems.

This book introduces the foundations and fundamentals of electronic circuits.

This book explains the group representation theory for quantum theory in the language of quantum theory.

Less than a decade ago, lead halide perovskite semiconductors caused a sensation: Solar cells exhibiting astonishingly high levels of efficiency.

This book covers the selection of nanocomposite supercapacitor materials.

This monograph presents fundamental aspects of modern spectral and other computational methods, which are not generally taught in traditional courses.

This book describes and contextualises collisionless plasma theory, and in particular collisionless plasma equilibria.

This book is an introduction to quantum Markov chains and explains how this concept is connected to the question of how well a lost quantum mechanical system can be recovered from a correlated subsystem.

This work investigates the energy-level alignment of hybrid inorganic/organic systems (HIOS) comprising ZnO as the major inorganic semiconductor.

This book describes the design, construction, and characterization of a new type of aberration-corrected, neutral-atom lens.

This book explains the aspiring vision of a sustainable hydrogen generating system which employs nanotechnology one way or the other and presents a detailed update on research activities, achievements and challenges.

This book provides readers with a detailed overview of second- and third-order nonlinearities in various nanostructures, as well as their potential applications.

This volume fills the need for a textbook presenting basic governing and constitutive equations, followed by several engineering problems on multiphase flow and transport that are not provided in current advanced texts, monographs, or handbooks.