Materials/States of Matter

The authors present the first monograph on electronic properties, lattice dynamics and phase transitions in TlX and TlMX2 (M = Ga, In; X = Se, S, T...

This book presents current research related to the synthesis, characterisation, and heat transfer of nanofluids. Nanofluids are stable colloidal su...

Applications of microscale and nanoscale thermal and fluid transport phenomena involved in traditional industries and highly specialised fields suc...

Many fascinating applications of liquid crystals -- a material that possesses behaviour in between the crystalline solid and the liquid phases -- h...

The fractional quantum Hall effect has been one of the most active areas of research in quantum condensed matter physics for nearly four decades, s...

Novel electrolytic systems composed from polymer polyethylene oxide are studied in the opening chapter of Liquid and Single Crystals: Properties, M...

Leading graphene research theorist Mikhail I. Katsnelson systematically presents the basic concepts of graphene physics in this fully revised secon...

This book covers the important contributions of the Chinese during the development of high-temperature superconductors (HTS). The study of Y-based ...

Plasmonics is an important branch of optics concerned with the interaction of metals with light. Under appropriate illumination, metal nanoparticle...

Understand the fundamental concepts, theoretical background, major experimental observations, and device applications of graphene photonics with th...

This book deals with an important class of many-body systems: those where the interaction potential decays slowly for large inter-particle distance...

Over the past decade, research on molecular gels has expanded and progressed rapidly. This timely book presents the latest developments and underst...

This book on solid state physics has been written with an emphasis on recent developments in quantum many-body physics approaches. It starts by cov...

This book presents an up-to-date formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions covering different applications ranging from solid state physics, p...

This book provides a clear and very broadly based introduction to crystallography, light, X-ray and electron diffraction - a knowledge which is ess...

This book provides a study in Bonding, Structure and Solid State Chemistry. It is based on lecture courses given over several years, but is not dir...

A comprehensive overview of the basic principles of vortex dynamics in superfluids, this book addresses the problems of vortex dynamics in all thre...

This book provides a study in Bonding, Structure and Solid State Chemistry. It is based on lecture courses given over several years, but is not dir...

Nanoscience and nanotechnology have functioned as effective buzzwords for at least a decade due to the unique properties that materials possess...