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  • Quantum Blockchain for Renewable Energy

    A Practical Handbook
    • 1st Edition
    • Abhishek Kumar + 2 more
    • English
    Quantum Blockchain for Renewable Energy: A Practical Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the integration of quantum computing, blockchain technology, and renewable energy systems to build a secure, decentralized, and efficient energy infrastructure. As traditional energy grids struggle with scalability, cyber threats, and inefficiencies, quantum blockchain offers a revolutionary solution by enhancing security, optimizing energy distribution, and enabling smart contracts for energy trading. The book explores key concepts such as quantum cryptography, blockchain consensus mechanisms, smart grids, and peer-to-peer energy transactions. By bridging the gap between quantum technology and sustainable energy, this resource provides a roadmap for building resilient and future-proof energy networks. There is also dedicated coverage of quantum hardware constraints, feasibility, and cost analysis, policy frameworks and global regulatory issues, ethical and societal implications, scalability and sustainability, and future opportunities. This is a useful resource for researchers, engineers, scientists, industry professionals, and policy makers with an interest in how quantum-secured blockchain technology can be applied to renewable energy networks.

  • Deep Learning Models for Continuous Authentication on Mobile Devices

    • 1st Edition
    • Yantao Li + 3 more
    • English
    Sensor-based continuous authentication has emerged as a critical approach for strengthening mobile security, enabling persistent user verification without disrupting device usage. However, the field faces significant hurdles, including limited training data, complex feature representation, environmental noise, and the strict resource constraints of mobile hardware.Deep Learning Models for Continuous Authentication on Mobile Devices provides a unified and structured treatment of data-driven continuous authentication, presenting a systematic study of sensor-based continuous authentication on mobile devices, focusing on modern machine learning and deep learning techniques. It guides readers in designing, analyzing, and deploying reliable systems that effectively balance security, robustness, and computational efficiency. Featuring data augmentation strategies for data scarcity, multi-sensor feature fusion, discriminative feature learning via two-stream CNNs, data synthesis using conditional Wasserstein GANs, lightweight networks for efficient deployment, neural architecture search for automated optimization, and neuromorphic computing with spiking neural networks,Deep Learning Models for Continuous Authentication on Mobile Devices balances methodological rigor with practical system design, offering robust solutions for real-world mobile security.

  • Anthocyanins in Food

    Chemistry, Health Benefits and Food Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Bai Weibin
    • English
    Anthocyanins in Food: Chemistry, Health Benefits and Food Applications provides a detailed exploration of anthocyanins - a class of natural pigments with significant health benefits and wide-ranging applications in the food industry. It offers a comprehensive overview of anthocyanins: from their chemical structure and biosynthetic pathways to their role in promoting health and their use as natural food colorants. It covers the latest research findings, practical applications, and innovative technologies related to anthocyanins, making it an essential resource for researchers, industry professionals, and students in food science and nutrition.

  • ClimateTech for Environmental Sustainability

    AI, Nanotechnology, and Energy Innovation for a Net-Zero Future
    • 1st Edition
    • Najib Altawell
    • English
    ClimateTech for Environmental Sustainability: AI, Nanotechnology, and Energy Innovation for a Net-Zero Future provides an integrated roadmap for leveraging advanced technologies to accelerate the global transition toward a net-zero and climate-resilient future. Bringing together machine learning, generative AI, nanotechnology, and circular economy approaches, this volume demonstrates how intelligent systems and smart materials are transforming the way we model, monitor, and manage environmental change. Through a structured framework spanning foundational concepts, core technologies, integration metrics, and governance, the book explores cutting-edge ClimateTech applications in ecosystem monitoring, sustainable materials, and low-carbon energy systems. It also examines emerging ethical, policy, and economic dimensions empowering researchers, engineers, and policymakers to design scalable, equitable, and technology-driven climate solutions. With global case studies from both the Global North and South, this book serves as a forward-looking reference for academics and professionals at the intersection of environmental science, data intelligence, and sustainable innovation.

  • Advances in Two Dimensional Materials for Gas Sensing Applications

    Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges
    • 1st Edition
    • Ram Sevak Singh + 2 more
    • English
    Advances in Two Dimensional Materials for Gas Sensing Applications: Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on the use of 2D materials for gas sensing. The book addresses the fundamental properties, synthesis methods, and physicochemical characterization of a wide range of 2D materials—including graphene, MXenes, metal oxides, chalcogenides, and emerging frameworks that are tailored for sensor technologies. Sections also cover gas sensing mechanisms, device integration, strategies for performance enhancement, and the latest advances in theoretical and computational methodologies.Users will find this to be a resource that facilitates informed material selection, device design, and performance optimization while also focusing on reliability, scalability, and the challenges of commercializing 2D material-based gas sensors. In addition, sections discuss 2D nanostructures for advanced sensor applications, highlighting their unique surface properties, high sensitivity, and compatibility with miniaturized devices.

  • Developments in Enzyme Immobilization

    Enhanced Biocatalysts for a Bio-based Circular Economy
    • 1st Edition
    • Pratima Bajpai
    • English
    Developments in Enzyme Immobilization: Enhanced Biocatalysts for a Bio-based Circular Economy explores scientific breakthroughs in transforming enzymes into reusable, high-performance catalysts through advanced nanomaterials, intelligent carrier systems, and cutting-edge techniques such as electrocoagulation and photocatalysis. The book discovers how innovations like metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), magnetic nanoparticles, and AI-driven modeling are enhancing enzyme stability, minimizing waste, and enabling scalable applications in pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and precision medicine. The book covers traditional and novel immobilization methods, matrixes and carrier materials, engineering considerations for industrial deployment, and applications in bio-based industries. It addresses the importance of enzyme immobilization in sustainable manufacturing, explores environmental and economic benefits, and provides insights into future directions and ongoing challenges. "Developments in Enzyme Immobilization" offers essential knowledge and practical tools for researchers, process engineers, chemists, biotechnologists, and environmental scientists working in pharmaceuticals, food technology, bioenergy, and environmental management. This resource empowers professionals to create efficient, eco-friendly processes that contribute to global sustainability.

  • Lignocellulosic Film/Paper Based Advanced Functional Materials

    • 1st Edition
    • Chuanling Si + 4 more
    • English
    The key appeal of Lignocellulosic Film/Paper Based Advanced Functional Materials to readers is its targeted, application-driven focus on lignocellulosic film and paper based functional materials that links fundamental composition and characterization to reproducible processing, diverse high-value applications including energy storage, packaging and sensors, and sustainability considerations—all in a single, coherent volume. Unlike many competitors that treat either fundamentals, processing, or applications in isolation, this book combines rigorous theory, practical case studies and an industry-oriented perspective that makes it useful both to academics and to industry professionals seeking translation paths. The comprehensive framework from fundamentals to applications is structured to allow readers to grasp both the scientific foundations and the practical significance of these materials. The interdisciplinary perspective, assimilating science, engineering and sustainability equips readers to translate laboratory research into scalable, eco-friendly solutions. The book’s forward-looking orientation integrating current theory with practical guidance and case studies supports readers in navigating real-world challenges in material design, optimization and industrial application

  • Navigating the Business of Sustainability

    A Practitioner's Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Márcia Balisciano + 2 more
    • English
    Sustainability practitioners are operating in challenging waters: Ever-evolving regulations, shifting political winds, and heightened stakeholder demands have created a landscape that often feels chaotic and contradictory. In this time of profound change there are both significant risks and new opportunities for companies. Navigating these times requires not only technical expertise but also sharper judgment and the ability to balance immediate business demands with long-term value creation.Navigating the Business of Sustainability: A Practitioner’s Guide is a practical, experience-driven resource for leaders striving for positive, lasting impact while charting a rapidly changing landscape. Built on decades of real-world experience from practitioners who have successfully led corporate sustainability through multiple cycles, this book addresses the key challenges when integrating sustainability into business strategy and operations. By focusing on what works in practice, this book is a guide for practitioners to manage conflicting priorities, foster innovation, and create enduring benefits for both business and society.

  • Fundamentals of Microbial Nanotechnology and Its Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Sukhvinder Singh Purewal + 2 more
    • English
    Fundamentals of Microbial Nanotechnology and Its Applicationsprovides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly evolving field of microbial nanotechnology, bridging microbiology and nanoscience to address today’s environmental, industrial, and biomedical challenges. This book explores the fundamental mechanisms of microbial synthesis, detailing green and sustainable practices, advanced methodologies, and the physicochemical characterization of nanoparticles. By highlighting microbial systems, including bacteria, fungi, extremophiles, and algae, it examines their potential to produce metallic nanoparticles, carbon dots, and magnetic materials, alongside hybrid systems that combine polymers, carbon-based materials, and metals. The chapters also review important environmental and health-related issues, discussing eco-friendly synthesis methods, heavy metal remediation, antimicrobial innovations, and drug delivery systems.With a comprehensive overview of the foundational principles and emerging applications of microbial nanotechnology, this book is as a valuable reference for researchers and scientists developing novel bio-nanotechnologica... applications or seeking to scale up production techniques.

  • Intelligent Monitoring of Transport Infrastructure

    Remote Sensing and Analytical Techniques
    • 1st Edition
    • Mercedes Solla Carracelas + 1 more
    • English
    Intelligent Monitoring of Transport Infrastructure comprehensively addresses the challenges of efficiently inspecting, managing, and maintaining transport systems, structures, and networks. It fundamentally proves how transformative the leveraging of cutting-edge instruments and accompanying techniques to enhance data collection, processing, and visualization can be for the field, resulting in more environmentally conscious as well as cost-efficient decision-making operations. From the latest advances in remote sensing, satellite imagery, digital twins, extended reality, and UAV applications to innovative uses of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the book offers a systematic overview whose added value is in the multitude of multi-disciplinary perspectives and invaluable actionable insights that it contributes.The volume is divided into four sections, each of the first three focusing on a key area of development: data collection and analysis; data processing and AI applications; data visualization and management. Finally, the fourth section is fully dedicated to real-world case studies that illustrate data integration methods and the stumbling blocks of inherent implementation practices alongside lessons learnt and workable solution examples that readers from both academia and industry can benefit from, essentially enabling further investigations into enhancing the safety, resilience, and sustainability of transportation infrastructure.

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