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Langmuir-Blodgett Films

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Syed Arshad Hussain
  • English
  • eBook
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Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Fundamentals to Applications consists of a detailed introduction to Langmuir-Blodget (LB) film preparation techniques and the basic principles involved. The book discusses different characterization techniques, highlighting potential applications of LB films with a special emphasis on molecular electronics applications. Examples of ongoing research and exercises highlighting applications in the real world are documented throughout. In addition, special emphasis is given to highlight the key challenges and future potential applications of LB film technique in various devices. This useful resource will help researchers, especially new comers, find new direction for their initiatives.

Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Ahmed Chemori + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems: Stabilisation and Limit Cycle Generation explains the concepts of stabilization and stable limit cycle generation for the class of underactuated mechanical systems. The book demonstrates the proposed concepts through real-time experiments on a real UMS subject and explores the challenges and constraints related to real-time control design. These concepts are illustrated in terms of the modeling and control of systems, such as the inertia wheel inverted pendulum (IWIP). This book serves as a valuable resource for PhD and Master students, engineers, researchers, and teachers.This book is organized into three parts: Part I: General context and case study; Part II: Control solutions for the stabilization problem; Part III: Control solutions for stable limit cycle generation. The final part addresses the problem of stable limit cycle generation, where the proposed control solution is detailed, as well as its related issues of implementation and validation through different case studies. Its content guides them in the field of robotics and automatic control, with a simplified methodology to control dynamical underactuated mechanical systems.

Emerging Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • James McLaughlin + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Emerging Sensors for Environmental Monitoring presents a comprehensive overview of chemical sensors, ranging from the choice of material to sensor validation, modeling, simulation, and manufacturing. It discusses the process of data collection by intelligent techniques such as deep learning and multivariate analysis, incorporates different types of sensors, and discusses each under a common set of sub-sections so that readers can fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of the relevant transducers—depending on the design, transduction mode, and final applications.This book provides a practical reference for Scientists, Researchers, Students, and Practitioners to deepen their knowledge base on the management of emerging contaminants, degradation of air, soil and water quality and indicators of ecological degradation.

Comprehensive Green Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Abdul Ghani Olabi
  • English
  • Hardback
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Green Materials are materials that are understood to have at least one of the two following attributes: sustainability or low environmental impact. Optimally, they have these two labels simultaneously.Comprehensive Green Materials, 4 volume set, is the first fully-integrated resource to provide a full and comprehensive source of information and knowledge for both researchers and practitioners around the world on the fundamental, characteristics, applications, latest developments and case studies of Green Materials. Each in-depth review chapter is written by internationally recognized experts and contributions come from scientists working in a broad range of topics, including materials science, green energy, green industry and construction, engineering and green chemistry.

Hydrogels in Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Alejandro J. Paredes + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Hydrogels in Drug Delivery: Advances in the Manufacture, Characterization, and Application of Hydrogels to Address Current Global Healthcare Challenges presents the latest advances in hydrogels, ranging from their basic chemistry to specific application of existing and novel hydrogels in controlled drug delivery and biomedicine. Hydrogels have been increasingly used in the development of novel formulations in a wide variety of therapeutic and monitoring applications. Multidisciplinary work carried out by researchers working in synthetic chemistry, drug delivery, biomedicine and other fields has led to the development of novel polymers, enabling the preparation of hydrogels with adjustable physicochemical properties. Accordingly, these materials offer multiple advantages over other drug delivery systems, including an increased patient compliance by reducing the required number of medication doses, reducing the healing time in injuries, and simplifying patient monitoring by reducing the invasiveness of current methods.Hydrogels in Drug Delivery is an essential resource for graduate students and researchers working within drug delivery and synthetic chemistry, biomedicine, material science, pharmacology, and chemical engineering.

Digital Technologies in Olfaction

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Takamichi Nakamoto
  • English
  • Paperback
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Digital Technologies in Olfaction: Fundamentals to Applications provides a comprehensive overview addressing how recent, digital, technological advances can be applied to olfaction. With an informatics approach into chemistry, the book introduces the extension of chemometrics in a modernized way such as deep learning and AI and applies it to machine olfaction.The book is systematically divided into three main sections: Odor sensing systems: Provides an overview for a variety of devices for odor sensing systems and addresses the concept of active sensing (sensing methodology) and its application to machine olfaction; Cheminformatics: Introduces chemometrics and the concept of odor space. This section also addresses odor reproduction and odor impression predictions; Olfactory displays: Addresses the applications of odor presentation and olfactory display. This section enables its readers to learn a modernized way of scent presentation.Digital Technologies in Olfaction: Fundamentals to Applications is a valuable resource for chemists and biologists who are interested in olfaction and artificial intelligence.

Nature-Derived Sensors

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Bahram Hemmateenejad + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Nature-Derived Sensors: Basic Principles and Recent Advances begins with an introductory section dealing with fundamental and basic information about biomimetic mechanisms, materials, algorithms, and tools. In further detail, various classes of nature-inspired sensors are discussed. The book brings together a wide range of information from nature-inspired solutions for modern sensor technology. As a result of the demand for low-cost, high-quality, and smart sensors, scientists will face new challenges that can be resolved by learning from nature solutions.Biologically inspired technologies can be gathered under the title of biomimetics science. Biomimetic sensors and sensing technologies have grown rapidly and widely and therefore have found real industrial applications as emerging technologies.

DEM Simulations of Bonded Granular Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Mingjiang Jiang
  • English
  • eBook
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DEM Simulations of Bonded Granular Materials is intended to introduce the advancement of the distinct element method (DEM) and its particular application to typical bonded geomaterials, including cemented sands, unsaturated sands, lunar regolith, and methane hydrate bearing sands. After introducing contact models for different bonded geomaterials, the merit of DEM to cemented geomaterials is demonstrated through simulations of laboratory tests and engineering applications which can be problematic using conventional continuum-based approaches. This book is of value to those who are interested in the mechanical behavior and numerical simulations of natural particulate systems of complexity. It can be used as a textbook or reference for students at a graduate level who are majoring in civil engineering, materials science, and relevant subjects. This book systematically introduces the basic principle and application of DEM to bonded materials based on the first-hand research experiences gained by the author and his research team.

Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology

  • 2nd Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Roberto Fornari
  • English
  • Hardback
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Semiconductors are at the heart of modern living. Almost everything we do, be it work, travel, communication, or entertainment, all depend on some feature of semiconductor technology. Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology, Second Edition, Three Volume Set captures the breadth of this important field and presents it in a single source to the large audience who study, make, and use semiconductor devices. Written and edited by a truly international team of experts and newly updated to capture key advancements in the field, this work delivers an objective yet cohesive review of the semiconductor world.The work is divided into three sections, fully updated and expanded from the first edition. The first section is concerned with the fundamental physics of semiconductors, showing how the electronic features and the lattice dynamics change drastically when systems vary from bulk to a low-dimensional structure and further to a nanometer size. Throughout this section there is an emphasis on the full understanding of the underlying physics, especially quantum phenomena. The second section deals largely with the transformation of the conceptual framework of solid-state physics into devices and systems, which require the growth of high-purity or doped, bulk and epitaxial materials with low defect density and well-controlled electrical and optical properties. The third section is devoted to design, fabrication and assessment of discrete and integrated semiconductor devices. It will cover the entire spectrum of devices we see all around us, for telecommunications, computing, automation, displays, illumination and consumer electronics.

Advances in Sustainable Materials

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Ajay Kumar + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Advances in Sustainable Materials: Fundamentals, Modelling and Characterization provides a comprehensive review of recent technological developments and research accomplishments in this important field.The chapters cover characterization techniques, modeling of sustainable materials, the role of artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0, nature-inspired algorithms, and optimization possibilities. Various computational and simulation approaches for maintaining the sustainability of materials are also covered in detail. In addition to the above, various case studies are also included on the application of sustainable materials in medical, environmental, production, mechanical, and civil engineering.This collection of state-of-the-art techniques, with an emphasis on using various analytical strategies, and computational and simulation approaches, as well as artificial intelligence will encourage researchers, as well as manufacturers to develop more innovative sustainable materials.

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