Material Science category: 3562 books
by Edward McCafferty
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
This textbook is intended for a one-semester course in corrosion science at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. The approach is that of a physical chemist or materials scientist, and the text is geared toward students of chemistry, materials science, and engineering. This textbook should...
Progress in High-Efficient Solution Process Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Fundamentals, Materials, Devices and Fabrication
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This book presents an important technique to process organic photovoltaic devices. The basics, materials aspects and manufacturing of photovoltaic devices with solution processing are explained. Solution processable organic solar cells - polymer or solution processable small molecules - have the potential...
Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Thin Films for Photovoltaics
Synthesis and Characterisation by Electrochemical Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Jonathan Scragg documents his work on a very promising material suitable for use in solar cells. Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide (CZTS) is a low cost, earth-abundant material suitable for large scale deployment in photovoltaics. Jonathan pioneered and optimized a low cost route to this material involving...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Defects in Advanced Electronic Materials and Novel Low Dimensional Structures provides a comprehensive review on the recent progress in solving defect issues and deliberate defect engineering in novel material systems. It begins with an overview of point defects in ZnO and group-III nitrides, including...
Clay-Containing Polymer Nanocomposites
From Fundamentals to Real Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Clay-Containing Polymer Nanocomposites covers everything from fundamental understanding to real applications of clay-containing polymer nanocomposites, including environmental considerations. The book's coverage of fundamentals and generalities, in addition to in-depth coverage of polymer layered...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Carbon is light-weight, strong, conductive and able to mimic natural materials within the body, making it ideal for many uses within biomedicine. Consequently a great deal of research and funding is being put into this interesting material with a view to increasing the variety of medical applications...
by Ronald F. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Principles of Composite Material Mechanics covers a unique blend of classical and contemporary mechanics of composites technologies. It presents analytical approaches ranging from the elementary mechanics of materials to more advanced elasticity and finite element numerical methods, discusses novel materials such as nanocomposites and hybrid multis
Materials Enabled Designs
The Materials Engineering Perspective to Product Design and Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
There are books aplenty on materials selection criteria for engineering design. Most cover the physical and mechanical properties of specific materials, but few offer much in the way of total product design criteria. This innovative new text/reference will give the “Big picture view of how materials...
by Syed Ali Ashter
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Technology and Applications of Polymers Derived from Biomass explores the range of different possible routes from biomass to polymeric materials, including the value and limitations of using biomass in material applications and a comparison of petrochemical-derived polymers and bio-based polymers....
Materials Engineering and Environmental Science
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015)
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book consists of one hundred and nine selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Materials Engineering and Environmental Science (MEES2015), which was successfully held in Wuhan, China during September 25–27, 2015. All papers selected for this proceedings were subjected...
by Baoguo Han, Xun Yu, Jinping Ou
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Concrete is the second most used building material in the world after water. The problem is that over time the material becomes weaker. As a response, researchers and designers are developing self-sensing concrete which not only increases longevity but also the strength of the material. Self-Sensing...
Friction Stir Superplasticity for Unitized Structures
A volume in the Friction Stir Welding and Processing Book Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This book describes the fundamentals and potential applications of ‘friction stir superplasticity for unitized structures’. Conventional superplastic forming of sheets is limited to the thickness of 3 mm because the fine grained starting material is produced by rolling. Friction stir superplasticity...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The book presents twelve state of the art contributions in the field of numerical modeling of materials subjected to large strain, high strain rates, large pressure and high stress triaxialities, organized into two sections. The first part is focused on high strain rate-high pressures such as those...
by Tsang-Tse Fang
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Elements of Structures and Defects of Crystalline Materials has been written to cover not only the fundamental principles behind structures and defects, but also to provide deep insights into understanding the relationships of properties, defect chemistry and processing of the concerned materials....