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This book discusses recent developments in renewable and sustainable materials from a green technology perspective and how these materials interact with the environment. It highlights the fundamental processes involved in the production of renewable and sustainable materials, including chemical and biological approaches as well as these materials' potential application as green technological option. Written in a didactic style, it offers a guide and insights into renewable and sustainable materi...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume aims at bringing together the results of extensive research done during the last fifteen years on the interfacial photoelectronic properties of the inorganic layered semiconducting materials, mainly in relation to solar energy conversion. Significant contributions have been made both on the fundamental aspects of interface characteristics and on the suitability of the layered materials in photoelectrochemical (semiconductor/electrolyte junctions) and in solid state photovoltaic(Schot...

This work gives a broad and detailed overview of charge transport in organic semiconductors. The author discusses strategies for linking the chemical composition and morphology of organic layers to charge carrier mobility and current-voltage characteristics of a device. Concepts for simulation-based predictions of material characteristics are presented starting from chemical structures.

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity [1986] by Bendnorz and Muller in the La-BA-Cu-O system resulted in very extensive research work about the discovery and synthesis of other high-temperature superconductors, such as Y-BA-Cu-O and Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O. These new superconducting materials, possessing superconductivity above liquid nitrogen

This book focuses on the widely used experimental techniques available for the structural, morphological, and spectroscopic characterization of materials. Recent developments in a wide range of experimental techniques and their application to the quantification of materials properties are an essential side of this book. Moreover, it provides concise but thorough coverage of the practical and theoretical aspects of the analytical techniques used to characterize a wide variety of functional nanoma...

It is estimated that a large fraction of natural gas reserves are found in locations from where transport is not economical. If these isolated natural gas reserves could be converted to synthetic fuels, they would generate around 250 billion barrels of synthetic oil-a quantity equal to one-third of the Middle East's proven oil reserves. Small-Scale Gas to Liquid Fuel Synthesis explores next-generation technologies geared toward overcoming the significant cost and technical barriers prohibiting...

Proceedings of the 20th International Cryogenic Engineering Conference

This volume contains the selection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Diffusion in Materials (DIMAT-2017, Haifa, Israel, May 7-12, 2017) that are related to the less-traditional field of science and technology where fundamental understanding of the kinetics of atom movements and diffusion phenomena are important, such as mineralogy, energy storage and conversion, polymers and hybrid organic-inorganic materials and more.

Finite element methods have become ever more important to engineers as tools for design and optimization, now even for solving non-linear technological problems. However, several aspects must be considered for finite-element simulations which are specific for non-linear problems: These problems require the knowledge and the understanding of theoretical foundations and their finite-element discretization as well as algorithms for solving the non-linear equations. This book provides the reader wit...

Interface phenomena are most fascinating because of the mixing of different scales and the interference of diverse physical processes. This makes it necessary to use different levels of description: microscopic, kinetic, and gas-dynamical. A unified quasiclassical approach is used to answer practical questions dealing with inelastic gas-surface scattering, the kinetics of adsorption layers, the evolution of inhomogeneities and defects at the surface, the Knudsen layer, the development of boundar...

The presented volume "Transport Problems with a Focus on Fluid and Heat Flow" in the journal "Defect and Diffusion Forum" covers in a wider sense diffusion related phenomena. The basic phenomena of heat and mass transfer play an important role in basic and applied research and this volume presents a balanced collection of recent developments in this area.

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 13th International Ceramics Congress, part of CIMTEC 2014-13th International Ceramics Congress and 6th Forum on New Materials, June 8-13, 2014, Montecatini Terme, Italy. The 27 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Powder Synthesis and Characterization, Chapter 2: Colloidal Processing, Shape Forming and Compaction Mechanisms, Chapter 3: Sintering and Related Phenomena.

This book contains selected papers by results of the 12th International Conference Mechatronic Systems and Materials (MSM'2016, Bialystok, Poland, July 3-8, 2016) and will be useful for researchers, engineers and scientists whose activity related to the designing of modern mechatronic systems for various applications - from the intellegent measurment devices to robotic systems for manufacture and space researches.

All parts of this special topic volume have been carefully developed and collected in order to provide the reader with an understanding of the various concepts resulting from research activities accumulated in a wide variety of technological areas of production and processing of functional materials.

This collection includes research results reflecting the solution on the main task of material science - research of the structure of materials. The presented articles devoted to the study of the structure of the materials at the nanoscale using real experiment and computer modeling. We hope this collection will be useful and interesting for many researchers and engineers from the area of the modern materials science.

This volume presents selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 4th International Conference Advances in Engineering and Management (ADEM 2016) was held in November 2016 in Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Romania. The presented book is a scientific papers collection from various areas of modern engineering science and we hope that this collection will be useful for many specialists, researches and students.

A detailed presentation of the physics of the various hysteresis models that are currently used to explain the magnetization reversal process, including coherent and incoherent magnetization processes, micromagnetism and its application in thin films, multilayers, nanowires, particles and bulk magnets, domain wall pinning and domain wall dynamics, and Preisach modelling. Some of the faulty concepts and interpretations that still exist in the literature are rectified. Magnetic imaging tech...

This book is the first comprehensive volume on nonlinear dynamics and chaos in optical systems. A few books have been published recently, but they summarize applied mathematical methodologies toward understanding of nonlinear dynamics in laser systems with small degrees of freedom focusing on linearized perturbation and bifurcation analyses. In contrast to these publications, this book summarizes nonlinear dynamic problems in optical complex systems possessing large degrees of freedom, sy...