Materials science

This book presents the current knowledge about superconductivity in high Tc cuprate superconductors.

This book presentsthe transport studies of topological insulator thin films grown by molecularbeam epitaxy.

This thesis focuses onchalcogenide compoundquantum dots with special crystal structures and behaviors inan effort to achieve the synergistic optimization of electrical andthermal transport for high-efficiency thermoelectric materials.

This book describes the design and fabrication of novel nanostructures in III-nitride material systems.

This thesispresents a series of mechanical test methods and comprehensively investigatesthe deformation and damage behavior of Cu/Pb-free solder joints under differentloading conditions.

This book describes the key theoretical techniques for semiconductor research to quantitatively calculate and simulate the properties.

This book presents efficient and practical methods for the synthesis of various functionalized organic molecules from haloalkynes through different reaction processes such as cross-coupling reactions, nucleophilic additions and cycloadditions.

Nanoscale structures and materials have been explored in many biological applications because of their novel and impressive physical and chemical properties.

The book is targeted at engineers, university lecturers, postgraduates, and final year undergraduate students involved in computational modelling and experimental and theoretical analysis of the high-temperature behavior of engineering structures.

This book is an effort to explore the technical aspects associated with bird flight and migration on wings.

The subject of this book is to study the porous media and the transport processes occur there.

This book shows the various porous structures and supramolecular architectures that result from the cucurbituril-based coordination, hydrogen bonding, ion-dipole interactions, p p stacking and C-H p processes.

This book describes the design, synthesis, characterization and applications of porous organic frameworks (POFs).

This monograph covers all important issues of terminal ballistics in a comprehensive way combining experimental data, numerical simulations and analytical modeling.

Mechanism of charge transport in organic solids has been an issue of intensive interests and debates for over 50 years, not only because of the applications in printing electronics, but also because of the great challenges in understanding the electronic processes in complex systems.

This Brief provides an up-to-date overview of smart surfactants and describes a broad spectrum of triggers that induce the formation of wormlike micelles or reversibly tune the morphology of surfactant aggregates from wormlike micelles to another state, or vice versa.

This book is an up-to-date text covering topics in utilizing hydrogen bonding for constructing functional architectures and supramolecular materials.

This book represents the first rigorous treatment of thermoelectrochemistry, providing an overview that will stimulate electrochemists to develop and apply modern thermoelectrochemical methods.

This book covers the advances in the studies of hydrogen-bonding-driven supramolecular systems made over the past decade.

This thesis studied the effect of aging of intumescent coatings (ICs) on the reliability of protected steel columns in fire condition and developed a probabilistic approach to assess the service life of ICs applied on steel columns.

This collection is dedicated to the 70th jubilee of Yu.

This book collects several examples of research in machining processes.

Amperometric sensors, biosensors included, particularly rely on suitable electrode materials.

In this thesis, the author introduces two strategies used to construct various types of N-heterocycles, based on the chemistry of zirconacycles and 2,6-diazasemibullvalenes.

This book reflects the current status of theoretical and experimental research of graphene based nanostructures, in particular quantum dots, at a level accessible to young researchers, graduate students, experimentalists and theorists.

The influence of size effects on the properties of nanostructures is subject of this book.

This book presents the important analytical technique of magnetic microscopy.

This book presents the laboratory, scientific and clinical aspects of nanomaterials used for medical applications in the fields of regenerative medicine, dentistry and pharmacy.

Diffusion in solids at moderate temperatures is a well-known phenomenon.

With the aim of providing a deeper insight into possible mechanisms of biological self-organization, this thesis presents new approaches to describe the process of self-assembly and the impact of spatial organization on the function of membrane proteins, from a statistical physics point of view.

Theoretical Modelling of Aeroheating on Sharpened Noses under Rarefied Gas Effects and Nonequilibrium Real Gas Effects employs a theoretical modeling method to study hypersonic flows and aeroheating on sharpened noses under rarefied gas effects and nonequilibrium real gas effects that are beyond the scope of traditional fluid mechanics.

"e;Hyperbolic Chaos: A Physicist's View"e; presents recent progress on uniformly hyperbolic attractors in dynamical systems from a physical rather than mathematical perspective (e.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of graphene oxides (GO) from atomic structures and fundamental properties to technological applications.

One major goal of the World Materials Research Institute Forum - WMRIF is to promote young scientists in the field of materials science and engineering.

Density functional theory (DFT) has become the standard workhorse for quantum mechanical simulations as it offers a good compromise between accuracy and computational cost.

"e;Strength of Fibrous Composites"e; addresses evaluation of the strength of a fibrous composite by using its constituent material properties and its fiber architecture parameters.

Wind power plants teaches the physical foundations of usage of Wind Power.

This book presents the practical aspects of mass measurements.

This book presents the anisotropy and multiband effects in newly discovered unconventional superconductors: cuprate superconductors, borocarbides, magnezium-diboride and oxypnictides.

At extremely low temperatures, clouds of bosonic atoms form what is known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.

There are nearly 100 000 different protein sequences encoded in the human genome, each with its own specific fold.

Over the nearly 20 years of Kelvin probe force microscopy, an increasing interest in the technique and its applications has developed.

The book deals with perovskite-type ferroelectric solid solutions for modern materials science and applications, solving problems of complicated heterophase/domain structures near the morphotropic phase boundary and applications to various systems with morphotropic phases.

This book, "e;Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media"e;, presents a set of new developments in the field of basic and applied research work on the physical and chemical aspects of heat and mass transfer phenomena in a porous medium domain, as well as related material properties and their measurements.

This compilation provides advanced graduate students and researchers with a structured overview of olefin polymerization.

The fascinating rainbow colors we see in soap film not only delight us; they also help us understand the physical essence of nature.

Infrared spectroscopy is a new and innovative technology to study protein folding/misfolding events in the broad arsenal of techniques conventionally used in this field.

This is a revised version of the 1984 book of the same name but considerably modified and enlarged to accommodate the developments in recursive estimation and time series analysis that have occurred over the last quarter century.

Recent experimental and theoretical progress has elucidated the tunable crossover, in ultracold Fermi gases, from BCS-type superconductors to BEC-type superfluids.

In this second edition a new chapter has been added covering the buffeting theory in a finite element format.