Materials Science

This book focuses on the recent advances in natural polymers, biopolymers, biomaterials, and their composites, blends, and IPNs. Biobased polymer blends and composites occupy a unique position in the dynamic world of new biomaterials. The growing need for lubricious coatings and surfaces in medical ..

There has been a great deal of progress in the development of materials, their application to structures, and their adaptation to a variety of systems. New Materials, Processes, and Methods Technology presents an update of existing materials and processes as well as new materials that have been inve..

Describing NDE issues associated with real-world applications, this comprehensive book details conventional and modern NDE technologies. It instructs readers on common techniques, equipment applications, and the potentials and limitations of current NDE methods. Each chapter details a different meth..

This book explores important new NMR spectroscopic methods and describes and compares the application of NMR to a large variety of useful materials with results from other techniques including adsorption, DSC, TSDC, DRS, FTIR, optical microscopy, and small-angle (SAXS) and wide-angle (WAXS) x-ray sc..

With chapters written by pioneering experts in various optical techniques, this comprehensive reference provides detailed descriptions of basic and advanced optical techniques commonly used to study materials, from the simple to the complex. It explains how to use the techniques to acquire, analyze,..

The final volume in the Handbook of Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings set, this book examines the processing and properties of organic thin films, devices, and coatings for clean energy applications. It presents thin film solar cells based on the use of polycrystalline thin film materials, expl..

The final volume in the Handbook of Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings set, this book examines the processing and properties of organic thin films, devices, and coatings for clean energy applications. It presents thin film solar cells based on the use of polycrystalline thin film materials, expl..

This book had 10 chapters each, dealing with a specific topic contributed by selected Authors with acknowledged expertise in each of these specialized fields...

Nanostructured materials represent a fast-evolving application of recent research in physics and chemistry. The core of this book consists of lectures by five noted researchers - Paul Alivisatos, D.D. Awschalom, Sumio Iijima, Charles Lieber, and Phaedon Avouris - presented at the Advanced Study Inst..

Introduces the physics of creep, concentrating on the principles underlying observable phenomena. A mathematical introduction is followed by an exposition of the mechanisms of creep and diffusion in alloys and superalloys...

In Summary, the objective of this book is to present in one volume a review of the plasma deposition process and the present understanding of the most important and widely used plasma deposited thin film materials, devices and their applications...

This reference offers comprehensive analysis on the most important data and results in the field of materials strength and mechanics. The authors systematically examine the special features of the mechanical behavior and corresponding structural mechanisms of crystal structure defects with grain siz..