Materials Science

Thermal stresses which originate as a consequence of different thermal expansion coefficients of components of multi-component materials represent ...

Wind farms and other renewable energy sources are characterised by the high unpredictability of generated power as a function of time. When the win...

This is the third volume of the Handbook of Functional Nanomaterials (4 volume set). Functional nanomaterials appear in our daily lives. These ma...

The advanced materials and devices based on nanotechnology and piezoelectric approaches have found wide applications in modern science and techniqu...

The interest in polymer composites research is due to their enlarged application. Filling with hard particles gives to polymers a number of desirab...

In this book, original papers have been collected to demonstrate the efficient use of computer molecular dynamics simulation methods for the studyi...

Advances in Materials Science Research. Volume 34 begins with a review of results on the modelling of the plasma-assisted growth of vertically alig...

Rare metals play an important role in the development of major branches of industry, such as vacuum equipment, semiconductor electronics, nuclear p...

Over the past few decades, the applications of membrane technology for wastewater treatment and drinking water production have undergone accelerate...

In the opening chapter of Polyester: Synthesis, Types and Applications, the authors provide the synthesis, structure, properties and applications o...

Following the discovery of the oxide superconductors in 1986 by Bednorz and Muller, a number of new superconducting compounds was found exhibiting ...

The developed original principles and approaches for advanced materials and composites (ferro-piezoelectrics, nanostructures, functional materials ...

An Introduction to Glass Transition opens with a comparison of entropy function of temperature dependence with configurational entropy, which was p...

Nanotechnology is a ground breaking scientific innovation with significant activities that includes the production and application of nanostructure...

Functionally graded materials (FGMs)are composites with gradually varying material content. This book presents current research in the study of FGM...

The authors of this book discuss the use of organosilanes as anchoring layers for biomolecules on different materials. The biofunctionalization of ...

Kaolinite is a clay mineral and part of the group of industrial minerals. Kaolinite clay occurs in abundance in soils that have formed from the che...

This book presents topical research in the study of organic semiconductors with a focus on the magnetic and electronic properties of organic polyme...

This book presents topical research in the study of magnetic thin films, including developments in giant magnetoresistance and tunnelling magnetore...

Materials science encompasses four classes of materials, the study of each of which may be considered a separate field: metals, ceramics, polymers ...