Mechanical Engineering & Materials

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

This book is indexed in Chemical Abstracts ServiceThis book offers a comprehensive sketch of the tools used in material research and the rich and d...

This book is designed to provide a background in polymer rheology to both engineering students and practicing engineers. It is written at an interm...

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

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...

This unique compendium is devoted to flexoelectricity the response of polarization to a strain gradient. The effect is analogous to piezoelectrici...

A collection of 25 papers presented at the 11th International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applicatio...

This highly illustrated reference work covers the three principal types of surface technologies that best protect engineering devices and products:...

Presents a self-contained introduction to continuum mechanics that illustrates how many of the important partial differential equations of applied ...

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...

Many advances in technology are due to the development of new materials and by using patent literature we can monitor how technology has advanced. ...

This book is a practical and intermediate level handbook written to describe acoustic emission technique, focusing on the results obtained from dif...

This reference work offers a comprehensive overview of the synthesis, properties and biomedical applications of functional biopolymers. Chapters fr...

The exploration of attractive nanoscience and nanotechnology offers tremendous opportunities to implement nanostructures/nanomaterials such as nano...

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

Nowadays, the use of microcomponents and miniaturised functional products from metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and advanced materials has in...