Materials science

This book overviews the sustainable production and diverse applications of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), with a special focus on agriculture, industry, and the environment.

This book emphasizes the importance of experimental characterization techniques and computational modeling tools in polymer composites.

The field of additive manufacturing is growing dynamically, with continued interest from manufacturing and other sectors.

This volume contains the proceedings of an interdisciplinary meeting which attracted participants from the fields of physics, engineering, applied mathematics, and geology.

The 8th installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition focuses on circular economy for the energy transition.

This book provides chronological advancement of metal oxide high-K dielectrics up to contemporary scenarios, synthesis with suitability and challenges, and diverse properties with emerging technological applications.

The aim of this handbook is to summarize the recent development in the topic of ultrasonics and sonochemistry, especially in the areas of functional materials and processing applications.

This book offers readers an extensive insight into advanced nanomaterials and their applications in the realm of energy generation and utilization.

The field of oligonucleotide therapeutics research is ripe with the prospect of new discoveries.

This textbook educates current and future materials workers, engineers, and researchers on Materials Informatics.

Nanotechnology plays a key leading role in developing tools able to identify, measure, and study cellular events at the nanometric level as well as in contributing to the disclosure of unknown biological interactions and mechanisms, which opens the door for advances including nanodevices for diagnostic and therapy, drug delivery systems, and regenerative medicine.

Biocomposites and the Circular Economy provides up-to-date research results and insights from a multidisciplinary group of researchers across the globe.

Covering all aspects of transport phenomena on the nano- and micro-scale, the 800 entries include 300 essay entries.

Fatigue Prediction for Random Loads serves as a comprehensive treatise for methods for fatigue estimation and fatigue life prediction in randomly excited structural systems using the rainflow cycle counting method.

Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying Protocols: Second Edition is a compilation of robust, reproducible techniques for the conservation of a wide range of biological materials.

This book provides a well-focused and comprehensive overview of the history and background of MXene-based materials and their structure, synthesis, properties, and modifications for making various advanced materials.

The aim of this handbook is to summarize the recent development in the topic of ultrasonics and sonochemistry, especially in the areas of functional materials and processing applications.

Thermal Spray Coatings for High-Temperature Conditions provides an in-depth analysis of thermal spray coatings covering a wide range of types and applications in aerospace, automotive, and heavy-duty equipment maintenance.

Ecomaterials

This extensive knowledge base provides a coherent description of advanced topics in materials science and engineering with an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary approach.

Exemplifying and illustrating recent exciting advances in PNA chemistry, the second edition of Peptide Nucleic Acids: Methods and Protocols serves as a vital complement to the first edition of the book.

This collection covers first principle and applied studies of thermodynamics and rate-governed phenomena including reaction kinetics and meso-, macro-scale transport of mass, momentum, and energy throughout the sequence of processing operations.

Hydrogels in Drug Delivery: Advances in the Manufacture, Characterization, and Application of Hydrogels to Address Current Global Healthcare Challenges presents the latest advances in hydrogels, ranging from their basic chemistry to specific application of existing and novel hydrogels in controlled drug delivery and biomedicine.

Modeling, analysis, and simulation-everything vibration engineering students need to succeed, including late-breaking advances in this ever-changing fieldAdvanced Mechanical Vibration covers modeling and analysis of vibrating systems with damping and gyroscopic effects, dynamics of combined distributed-lumped systems, and approximate methods for solutions of complex vibration problems, which are often overlooked in other such textbooks.

This book provides a variety of cases at the intersection of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainable textile and apparel supply chain management.

The "e;Handbook of Smart Textiles"e; aims to provide a comprehensive overview in the field of smart textile describing the state of the art in the research sector as well as the well-established techniques applied in industries.

This book presents current research, recent advances, and emerging technologies on sustainable development issues, engineering materials, and energy technology advancements, particularly in developing countries.

This book includes three big subjects such as elasticity, fracture, and fatigue.

This updated second edition brings the complex mathematics of three-dimensional dynamics to life with real-time simulations, making the equations easier to grasp.

This book entitled Mechanics of Elastic Solids is written as a textbook of the course "e;Elasticity"e; or "e;Theory of Elasticity"e; or "e;Elasticity Mechanics"e; for relevant engineering majors.

Engineering Tribology, Fifth Edition takes an interdisciplinary approach to key concepts and engineering implications of tribology, bringing together the relevant knowledge needed from different fields to achieve effective analysis and control of friction and wear.

Emerging Sensors for Environmental Monitoring presents a comprehensive overview of chemical sensors, ranging from the choice of material to sensor validation, modeling, simulation, and manufacturing.

Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications provides the philosophy, principles and application of environmental ergonomics as a universal concept and considers total environments as an integration of environmental factors to which people are exposed.

This book highlights microbial biodiversity, biowastes, and innovative bioprocesses that contribute to creating these environmentally friendly biopolymers.

In recent years, large-scale advances in technology have led to greater understanding of the world on a much tinier scale: the biomolecular level.

Covering all aspects of transport phenomena on the nano- and micro-scale, the 800 entries include 300 essay entries.

This book addresses the challenges of using metallic biomaterials in implants.

This book presents the induced representation method, a powerful technique in quantum mechanics with applications in condensed matter physics.

This book presents cutting-edge developments and applications of aluminum alloys in the aerospace industry, offering  a detailed exploration of the material science and engineering innovations behind aluminum technologies.