Materials science

Many of the polymers we use every day are highly flammable.

Textile printing is the process of applying colour to fabric in definite patterns or designs.

This book gathers selected contributions of the 7th international conference on structural adhesive bonding AB 2023, held in Porto, Portugal, July 13-14, 2023.

This handbook covers the medicinal and chemical properties of Ayurvedic medicines, the plants that produce them and the currently known organic compounds that occur therein.

This book reports on advances in applied mechanics research and applications.

This book provides recent developments and advancements in management of plastic wastes and associated challenges with it.

Reflecting emerging methods and the evolution of the field, Introduction to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture, and Orientation Mapping keeps mathematics to a minimum in covering both traditional macrotexture analysis and more advanced electron-microscopy-based microtexture analysis.

This book aims to provide a holistic and enriched learning experience to readers as far as various designing and technical aspects pertaining to fashion accessories are concerned.

Elastomeric Nanocellulose Composites provides an in-depth study of recent developments in this fast-evolving research field.

This book provides a general overview of the importance of fibre-matrix interfacial bonding characteristics in natural fibre-based composites to obtain optimal material properties for a specific application.

This Handbook of Numerical Simulation of In-Flight Icing covers an array of methodologies and technologies on numerical simulation of in-flight icing and its applications.

Supercapacitors can both hold large amounts of energy and charge up almost instantly.

There is an increasing awareness that materials and chemicals produced from fossil fuels are not sustainable, both in terms of the pollution caused by the extraction and production processes, and the fact that there is only a finite supply of these fossil fuels.

This Handbook provides readers with the current cutting edge of multiphase flow technology.

This book presents progress in device processing and materials characterization of the wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) and related materials for power electronics applications.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the 9th International and 49th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2022).

Supercapacitors can both hold large amounts of energy and charge up almost instantly.

Textile printing is the process of applying colour to fabric in definite patterns or designs.

This book presents an overview of the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology applications in drug delivery systems and covers a variety of technologies and materials that help in achieving vast variation in the particle size needed in technology and drug delivery-based research.

This volume contains seven chapters that detail advances in materials science research.

This book aims to provide a holistic and enriched learning experience to readers as far as various designing and technical aspects pertaining to fashion accessories are concerned.

This book presents wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), its variants, processing steps, and the mechanical and microstructural aspects of developed components, along with a logical sequence that provides a ready reference.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the 9th International and 49th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2022).

Contemporary optics is the foundation of many of today's technologies including various focusing and defocusing devices, microscopies and imaging techniques.

This handbook covers the fly cutting technique, an ultra-precision mechanical machining technology which is regarded as the fastest and most reliable low-cost machining method to generate high quality complex surfaces.

The book embodies an aggregate industrial and academic experiences of the authors gathered over the years of developing a process for converting low-quality Nigerian ores into super concentrates and also successfully operating a commercial ball mill installation equipped with a pilot grinding test facility.

The present book focuses on advancement in the application of heterogeneous catalytic materials for the dehydrogenative synthesis of valuable organic compounds from substrates such as alcohols and simple aliphatic compounds.

Biopolymer and Biopolymer Blends: Fundamentals, Processes, and Emerging Applications showcases the potential of biopolymers as alternative sources to conventional nonbiodegradable petroleum-based polymers.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of implants, from the selection of materials to the outcome of the process.

In contrast to metals, a composite material acquires an internal structure where the imprint of its manufacturing process history is a significant part of the internal structure's makeup and in many cases determines how the material responds to external impulses.

Ultrasonic nano/microfabrication, handling and driving is an emerging actuation technology, which utilizes ultrasonic vibration and the physical effects of ultrasonic vibration in fluids and solids to implement the fabrication, handling and driving of nano/micro scale objects.

This book presents wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), its variants, processing steps, and the mechanical and microstructural aspects of developed components, along with a logical sequence that provides a ready reference.

This book includes articles from the Third International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICSSEA 2023), held at Da Nang City, Vietnam, on July 19-21, 2023.

This book reports on advances in applied mechanics research and applications.

System Innovation for a World in Transition: Applied System Innovation IX includes the contributions presented at the IEEE 9th International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI 2023, Chiba, Japan, 21-25 April 2023).

This book gathers selected contributions of the 7th international conference on structural adhesive bonding AB 2023, held in Porto, Portugal, July 13-14, 2023.

This book contains six chapters that detail advances in the research and applications of biocomposites.

Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Fundamentals to Applications is a comprehensive resource on the formation, properties, and applications of ultrathin molecular films.

Polymer nanocomposites are polymer-based composites in which the reinforcement is in nano size.

Zeta Potential: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications provides an up-to-date exploration of the principles and practice of zeta potential measurements.

Zeta Potential: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications provides an up-to-date exploration of the principles and practice of zeta potential measurements.

The papers are arranged under the following headings: Application; FIE hardware; Biofuels; Nozzle flow; Gasoline; Heavy-duty/large engines.

The plastisphere provides a unique man-made habitat for organisms and microbial communities.

This monograph aims to examine different types of photothermal materials, such as metallic, organic, and composites, that have been reported to generate localized heat at the air-water interface, leading to vapor production on the surface.

This book provides in-depth coverage of metrology principles for students, practicing engineers, technologists and researchers.

Advanced Technologies for Sustainable Biomedical Applications explores innovative technological advancements that contribute to the sustainability and efficiency of biomedical applications.

High Strength Steels: Microstructure, Properties, and Applications summarizes the historical context and recent research directions of new high strength steels including high-strength low alloyed steel (HSLA), dual-phase (DP) steel, transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) assisted steel, quenching and partitioning (Q&P) steel, medium-Mn steel, high-Mn twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steel, bainitic steel, martensitic steel and maraging steel.

Functionally Graded Materials: Analysis and Applications to FGM, FG-CNTRC and FG Porous Structures aims to disseminates knowledge between users, manufacturers, designers, and researchers involved in structures or structural components manufactured using functionally graded materials.