Mechanical engineering and materials

This book presents the latest research in ultrathin carbon-based protective overcoats for high areal density magnetic data storage systems, with a particular focus on hard disk drives (HDDs) and tape drives.

This book focuses on pulverized coal particle devolatilization, ignition, alkali metal release behavior, and burnout temperature using several novel optic diagnostic methods on a Hencken multi-flat flame burner.

This book offers essential insights into c-Si based solar cells and fundamentals of reflection, refraction, and light trapping.

This book describes the luminescence mechanism of polynuclear lanthanide complexes, focusing on energy transfer processes using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches.

This book investigates the impact of production input factors on the market, consumer and producer energy demand characteristics in 30 industrial sectors for South Korea over the period 1980-2009, and for Japan over the period 1973-2006, with special emphasis placed on the effects of ICT investment on the demand for energy.

This thesis focuses on the synthesis and characterization of various carbon allotropes (e.

This book highlights recent advances in the field of biomaterials design and the state of the art in biomaterials applications for biomedicine.

This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 7th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2019) - the largest in India in this area - written by eminent researchers from across the world on design processes, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design for a connected world.

This brief summarizes different types of organic and inorganic nanomaterials for drug delivery in cancer therapy.

This book gathers selected papers from the Chinese Materials Conference 2018 (CMC2018) held in Xiamen City, Fujian, China, on July 12-16, 2018.

This book investigates the factors that lead to slip and fall incidents and establishes a relationship between the coefficient of friction (COF), floor slipperiness and floor roughness.

This brief highlights recent research advances in the area of nano-therapeutics.

This book develops the analytical theory of perfectly conducting and lossy metal, circular, round-wire loop antennas and nano-scaled rings from the radio frequency (RF) regime through infrared and the optical region.

This book discusses nocturnal cooling technologies for building applications.

In this book, the molecular recognition of DNA using small molecules is discussed, with a study of the photochemistry of BrU-labeled DNA.

This book explores functional polymers containing aromatic azo chromophores in side-chain, main-chain and other parts of their structures, known as azo polymers and which share common photoresponsive properties.

This thesis focuses on the theoretical description of electro-osmosis of polymer solutions.

This thesis presents first observations of superconductivity in one- or two-atomic-scale thin layer materials.

This book discusses various passive and active techniques for controlling unsteady flow dynamics and associated coupled mechanics of fluid-structure interaction.

This book addresses various aspects of ship construction, from ship types and construction materials, to welding technologies and accuracy control.

This book offers an easy-to-understand introduction to the computational mass transfer (CMT) method.

The proposed book will be a "e;one-stop"e; place for all the young material researchers to understand the recent and reliable material making process, characterization, and reliability test tools.

This book evaluates the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams, considering the effects of strong motion duration, mainshock-aftershock seismic sequence, and near-fault ground motion.

This book presents a state-of-the-art review of the latest advances in developing calcium- phosphate bone cements and their applications.

This book highlights the latest clinical research and advancements in 3D (bio)printing and 4D printing using stimulus-responsive hydrogels as well as the concept of self-healing and its amalgamation with 3D printed injectable cell-laden tissue constructs.

Soft tissue simulants, essential for automotive and ballistic testing, medical, and surgical training, have traditionally relied on cadavers and animal tissues.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 17th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete (ICAAR), held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on May 19-24, 2024.

This book is a collection of reports (reviewed) selected from several sections of the IEEE Nanomaterials: Application and Properties-2023 conference.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of condition monitoring, damage assessment and maintenance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the UNIfied Conference of DAMAS (International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures), IncoME  (International Conference on Maintenance Engineering) and TEPEN (The Efficiency and Performance Engineering) Conferences, held in Huddersfield, UK on August 29 - September 1, 2023.

This book, at first, explores the evolution of the IoT to SIoT and offers a comprehensive understanding of SIoT and trust management vis-a-vis SIoT.

This unique textbook features fundamentals and analyses of metal forming processes supported by 200 worked numerical examples.

This book summarizes recent efforts and advances in the roll bonding of metal laminates to reveal the potential mechanism.

The book explores the intersection of nanotechnology and allergic airway diseases.

This book presents high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments on kagome superconductors KV3Sb5, RbV3Sb5, and CsV3Sb5-an ideal material family for studying rich physical phenomena originating from the geometric structure of kagome lattice-with the aim of elucidating the electronic structure and the origin of charge density wave (CDW) and superconductivity.

This volume is dedicated to the sixtieth birthday of Prof.

This volume presents peer-reviewed and selected papers from the 2024 European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO), held on 17-19 June, 2024, and organized by RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in collaboration with Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Technical University of Berlin, Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

This proceedings book contains the full papers of the 10th edition of the International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, ICEER 2023, that took place in Madrid, Spain during October 7-9, 2023.

This book systematically summarizes the development process of thermal spraying technology, and elaborates on preparation, characterization, and testing methods of plasma spraying layers.

This edited book covers a wide range of novel scientific and engineering aspects of diamond films produced from chemical vapor deposition.

This book aims at providing the reader with up-to-date knowledge about Tesla turbine features, mechanical design, and performance characteristics.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of dynamic loads and testing of composite materials and sandwich structures, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 5th International Symposium on Dynamic Response and Failure of Composite Materials (DRAF), held in Ischia, Italy, on June 17-21, 2024.

This book introduces computing and programming with undergraduate engineering students in mind.

From this book reader will learn the best research topics and the latest development trend in MMESE theory and application.

This book presents a detailed analysis of the processes of  internal damage and healing of damage in high-temperature creep-fatigue.

This book presents critical evaluations of various historical sources and their impact on technological development.

This book examines the interactions of nanomaterials with the biological system.