Materials science

The aim of this book is to give a unified and critical account of the fundamental aspects of liquid crystals.

Este es un libro de texto para los cursos de robótica que se imparten en las carreras de ingeniería en mecatrónica, electrónica, sistemas e industrial.

This book reveals unique transport phenomena and functionalities in topological insulators coupled with magnetism and superconductivity.

Supramolecular materials have a great number of applications due to the reversibility of their non-covalent molecular interactions, such as reversible hydrogen bonding, host-guest interactions and electrostatic interactions.

This book introduces two of the most exciting heat pumping technologies, the coabsorbent and the thermal recovery (mechanical vapor) compression, characterized by a high potential in primary energy savings and environmental protection.

This book focuses on conceptual frameworks that are helpful in understanding the basics of electronics - what the feedback system is, the principle of an oscillator, the operational working of an amplifier, and other relevant topics.

This book disseminates recent research, theories, and practices relevant to the areas of surface engineering and the processing of materials for functional applications in the aerospace, automobile, and biomedical industries.

Polymeric materials offer a high level of versatility due to the range of applications possible within the biomedical and clinical fields - including wound closure - particularly in comparison to metals or ceramics.

This book describes recent progress in the mechanistic studies and applications of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS).

This book provides a comprehensive review of biosynthetic approaches to the production of industrially important chemicals and the environmental challenges involved.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of historic mortars and masonry structures conservation and restoration, as presented by international researchers and professionals at the 6th Historic Mortars Conference (HMC), held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on September 21-23, 2022.

The aim of this book is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction.

This book is an essential reference for engineers and scientists working in the field of turbulence.

This book explores various unique characteristics of graphene quantum dots and their potential applications in a variety of fields.

This book uses asymptotic methods to obtain simple approximate analytic solutions to various problems within mechanics, notably wave processes in heterogeneous materials.

Tissue engineering involves seeding of cells on bio-mimicked scaffolds providing adhesive surfaces.

For anyone that needs property data for compounds, CASRN numbers for computer or other searches, a consistent tabulation of molecular weights to synthesize inorganic materials on a laboratory scale, or information on commercial and other uses for various compounds, this volume is the perfect reference.

This book grew out of an introductory course that I was invited to teach on a number of occasions to senior and graduate level students at the University of Kid.

The increasing power of computer resources along with great improvements in observational data in recent years have led to some remarkable and rapid advances in astrophysical fluid dynamics.

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Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, Volume 9 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the ninth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book explores the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) effect, which has opened new avenues for the development of advanced luminogenic materials in the aggregate or solid state.

The contributions in this volume bring together the experience of specialists on the highly complex technology required for manufacturing composite structural parts, presenting fundamental descriptions of the processing and properties of these advanced materials.

Printing on Polymers: Fundamentals and Applications is the first authoritative reference covering the most important developments in the field of printing on polymers, their composites, nanocomposites, and gels.

Handbook of Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment: Fundamentals and Scale up Issues provides coverage of the nanomaterials used for wastewater treatment, covering photocatalytic nanocomposite materials, nanomaterials used as adsorbents, water remediation processes, and their current status and challenges.

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding radar energy warfare and stealth technology.

Bio-based Plant Oil Polymers and Composites provides engineers and materials scientists a useful framework to help take advantage of the latest research conducted in this rapidly advancing field-enabling them to develop and commercialize their own products quickly and more successfully.

Microorganisms are ubiquitously present in petroleum reservoirs and the facilities that produce them.

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 8 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the eighth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book consists of selected papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering (CMAME 2023), held in Da Nang, Vietnam, on 20-22 December 2023.

This book has been written as part of a series of scientific books being published by Plenum Press.

The aerospace industry increasingly relies on advanced numerical simulation tools in the early design phase.

Multifunctional Photocatalytic Materials for Energy discusses recent developments in multifunctional photocatalytic materials, such as semiconductors, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and graphene, with an emphasis on their novel properties and synthesis strategies and discussions of their fundamental principles and applicational achievements in energy fields, for example, hydrogen generation from water splitting, CO2 reduction to hydrocarbon fuels, degradation of organic pollutions and solar cells.

This book treats Modelling of CFD problems, Numerical tools for PDE, and Scientific Computing and Systems of ODE for Epidemiology, topics that are closely related to the scientific activities and interests of Prof.

Atomically dispersed metallic materials (ADMMs) are the most advanced materials used in energy conversion and storage devices to improve their performance for portable electronics, electric vehicles, and stationary power stations.

Rapid advances in materials technology are creating many novel forms of coatings for energy efficient applications in solar energy.

A reliable source for scientific and commercial information on over 1,000 polymers, this revised and updated edition features 25 percent new material, including 50 entirely new entries that reflect advances in such areas as conducting polymers, hydrogels, nano-polymers, and biomaterials.

This book is focused on the latest developments and practical applications of nanotechnology in textile finishing.

This book gives a rigorous treatment of entanglement measures in the general context of quantum field theory.

This book presents nanomaterials for cancer detection using a variety of state-of-the-art imaging techniques.

Nucleic acids have structurally evolved over billions of years to effectively store and transfer genetic information.

This new edition of Classical Mechanics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics describes the motions of rigid bodies and shows how classical mechanics has important applications to geophysics, as in the precessions of the earth, oceanic tides, and the retreat of the moon from the earth owing to the tidal friction.

Number 25 of this acclaimed series breaks new ground with articles on charge transfer across liquid-liquid interfaces, electrochemical techniques to study hydrogen ingress in metals, and electrical breakdown of liquids.

This book is a collection of the addresses of the keynote speakers and invited lecturers as well as manuscripts of a few outstanding papers which were delivered at the First Pacific Polymer Conference organized by the Pacific Polymer Federation in Maui, Hawaii, 12-15 December, 1989.

This concise work provides a general introduction to the design of buildings which must be resistant to the effect of earthquakes.

This proceedings highlights the applications of the newly introduced physical quantity Liutex in hydrodynamics and aerodynamics.