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  • Nanocellulose from Agricultural Biomass

    Fundamentals, Performance, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • N. M. Nurazzi + 1 more
    • English
    Nanocellulose from Agricultural Biomass: Fundamentals, Performance, and Applications provides an extensive exploration of the cutting-edge advancements in this field. The book aims to cover the entire spectrum, from the origins and significance of agricultural biomass to the traditional and modern isolation methods of nanocellulose. It delves into the critical role of nanocellulose in emerging applications, especially through chemical surface modifications and composite fabrication processes involving both thermoplastic and thermosetting materials. The book is structured into three main sections: fundamentals, fabrication, and applications.The first section offers a foundational understanding of agricultural biomass resources, their morphology, and methods for sustainable green extraction and isolation of nanocellulose. The second section covers techniques for modifying and functionalizing nanocellulose, composite fabrication processes, and performance evaluations. The third section explores various cutting-edge applications, such as biomedical materials, electronics, environmental remediation, structural applications, packaging, 3-D printing, and propellants. This book is designed for a wide audience, including researchers, industry professionals, and postgraduate students working in the fields of natural fibers, nanocellulose, and polymer composites. It addresses the growing interest in sustainable materials by presenting detailed, interdisciplinary research and collaborative efforts to develop nanocellulose applications. The book highlights the economic potential and market value of nanocellulose products, making it an invaluable resource for those engaged in advancing sustainable product development.

  • Shell-and-Tube Latent Heat Storage Systems

    Advanced Techniques for Heat Transfer Enhancement and Performance Improvement
    • 1st Edition
    • Pouyan Talebizadehsardari + 2 more
    • English
    Shell-and-Tube Latent Heat Storage Systems: Advanced Techniques for Heat Transfer Enhancement and Performance Improvement addresses the critical challenges in thermal energy storage, focusing on latent heat storage technologies using phase change materials. The book provides a structured exploration of advanced design enhancements, including innovative fin geometries, nanoparticles, porous media, and geometry modifications for both double-pipe and triple-pipe, horizontal and vertical configurations. Each chapter offers foundational principles, analytical methods, real-world case studies, and simulation data, enabling readers to understand and apply the latest research in system optimization.The modular chapter format ensures that content is accessible independently, supporting both academic research and professional practice. As the demand for renewable energy and efficient thermal management rises, this reference meets the need for integrated, practical solutions to optimize system performance, bridging the gap between theory and industrial applications. The reference empowers researchers, engineers, and students to develop scalable, cost-effective thermal energy storage solutions. By integrating the latest advances in materials science and system design, the reference supports the energy transition, reduces CO2 emissions, and aligns with global sustainability goals.

  • Robust Theoretical Models in Medicinal Chemistry

    QSAR, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
    • 1st Edition
    • Luciana Scotti + 1 more
    • English
    Robust Theoretical Models in Medicinal Chemistry: QSAR, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning serves as a valuable resource chock full of applications extending into multiple knowledge domains. The meticulous construction of a robust model holds significance, not only in drug discovery but also in engineering, chemistry, pharmaceutical, and food-related research, illustrating the broad spectrum of fields where QSAR methodologies can be instrumental. The activities considered in QSAR span chemical measurements and biological assays, making this approach a versatile tool applicable across various scientific domains. Currently, QSAR finds extensive use in diverse disciplines, prominently in drug design and environmental risk assessment.Quantitat... Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) represent a concerted effort to establish correlations between structural or property descriptors of compounds and their respective activities. These physicochemical descriptors encompass a wide array of parameters, accounting for hydrophobicity, topology, electronic properties, and steric effects, and can be determined empirically or, more recently, through advanced computational methods.

  • Precipitation Assessment

    Formation, Assessment and Hazards
    • 1st Edition
    • Wei Zhang
    • English
    Precipitation Assessment: Formation, Assessment and Hazards offers a comprehensive overview of precipitation, bringing together the fundamental principles of formation, the necessary methods and tools for assessment, and key aspects of precipitation hazards. Chapters focus on the formation of precipitation, including contents moisture, clouds and convection, weather systems that create precipitation (frontal systems, cyclones, atmospheric rivers etc.), precipitation types (rainfall and snowfall) and their forming mechanisms. Then, several chapters explore precipitation measurements, types of precipitation data (in-situ data, remote sensing, reanalysis data, and combined products), metrics for precipitation assessment (depth, intensity and extremes), tools for precipitation assessment (IDF curve, PMP and Taylor Diagram).The book closes with a detailed discussion of precipitation extremes as well as considerations in the face of climate change. Readers will appreciate this comprehensive review of the latest developments in precipitation formation, assessment methods, and extreme precipitation hazards.

  • Carbon Quantum Dots as Carriers for Cancer Therapy

    • 1st Edition
    • N.K Jain + 1 more
    • English
    Carbon Quantum Dots as Carriers for Cancer Therapy provides an in-depth overview of advancements in CQD synthesis, characterization, and applications in cancer drug delivery and therapy. The book details the unique chemical, physical, and optical properties of CQDs, assessing their benefits and challenges in oncology. With applications across various cancer tissue types, this book explores innovative drug delivery and therapeutic strategies aimed at improving treatment outcomes, enabling readers to make informed decisions in materials selection for cancer research and therapy. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in materials science, biomaterials, materials chemistry, cancer research, and pharmaceutical sciences.

  • Handbook of Modern Dressing and Grinding Technology: Volume 2

    Processes, Machines, and Practical Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Bahman Azarhoushang
    • English
    Handbook of Modern Dressing and Grinding Technologies Volume 2: Processes, Machines, and Practical Applications covers every facet necessary for a deep understanding of modern dressing, tool conditioning, and grinding processes. In addition to discussing the theoretical and fundamental aspects of these processes, the book also provides, via case studies, an extensive examination of their contemporary industrial applications. Chapters discuss both mechanical (stationary and rotary diamond tools; resin- and metal-bonded superabrasive grinding wheels) and non-mechanical (electro-chemical; thermal; ultrasonic) dressing processes. External cylindrical and centerless grinding are each investigated as well, as are internal cylindrical and surface grinding. Gear, tool, free form, jig, and cut-off grinding are also each given substantial coverage, as are monitoring and optimization techniques.

  • An Introduction to Electromagnetism

    • 1st Edition
    • Manuela Mura + 1 more
    • English
    Manuela Mura and Fabien Paillusson’s An Introduction to Electromagnetism is an accessible undergraduate text on the subject, incorporating elements of electromagnetism and electrodynamics, thoroughly delving into foundational concepts while highlighting important lessons. The book opens with an introductory section on exterior calculus and its applications in electromagnetism, which introduces increasingly popular mathematical tools at the heart of most vector calculus theorems. The book delves into detailed sections on electrostatics and magnetostatics satisfying Curie’s principle and exploring how to use symmetry plane(s) of the charge and current distributions to facilitate problem-solving; explains Earnshaw’s electrostatic and magnetostatic instability theorems; and dedicates a section to the Bohr-van Leewen theorem on the impossibility of a non-zero classical magnetic susceptibility. The book further makes the case that electromagnetism can be more naturally expressed in terms of differential forms, and overall aims to make this novel geometric approach more accessible to a wider audience. An Introduction to Electromagnetism dives into fundamental topics in electromagnetism, based on the authors’ own teaching experience with this material in dedicated courses for undergraduate Physics students. The book has a unique and specialized focus on topics such as a discussion on the incompleteness of Maxwell’s equations; a dissection of Purcell’s thought experiment on the magnetic force from a current-carrying wire onto a free charge; and a review of the interpretation of dipole and multipole moments and how their properties contribute to the electric and magnetic phenomena. This helpful first edition delivers detailed explanations, illustrative examples, and beneficial in-text exercises and solutions to discuss the role and importance of electromagnetism, and is ideal for courses in physics, physical sciences, and related fields.

  • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 90
    • English
    Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 90 in this series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

  • Smart Thin Films and Nanomaterials for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond

    • 1st Edition
    • Velumani Subramaniam + 4 more
    • English
    Smart Thin Films and Nanomaterials for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond provides an overview of various smart thin films and nanomaterials, offering detailed information on their synthesis, properties, and applications that utilize their interesting electrical, magnetic, and optical properties. The background and fundamentals of various types of smart materials are addressed throughout the book, in addition to important aspects such as the difficulty of processing control, optimization of sample synthesis, and materials design challenges. By providing insights into these functional materials, the book presents potential pathways for exploring novel phases, optimizing their properties, and tailoring them to suitable forms prior to prototype testing for a range of applications. Smart nanomaterials are notable for their advantages over other materials in the areas of cost, ease of processing, and tunable magnetic, electrical, and optical properties, and they show great promise for the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and beyond. From this perspective, the book focuses on different classes of smart nanomaterials targeting a broad spectrum of disciplines and applications – including engineering, medicine, biotechnology and materials science – that are all closely aligned with the ongoing evolution of Industry 4.0.

  • Marine Operations for Offshore Wind Turbines

    Volume 1: Fundamentals and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Zhiyu Jiang + 1 more
    • English
    Published as an Open Access book freely available for download on Science Direct, Marine Operations for Offshore Wind Turbines, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Application is a practical reference that links fundamentals to methods to application in this unique, important, and highly interdisciplinary area, helping readers to ensure operational safety, reduced installation costs, and improved wind farm efficiency and reliability. The first part of the book introduces the fundamentals of offshore wind energy systems and marine operations, along with analysis methods and numerical modelling and simulation tools. The second section focuses on in-depth case studies based on the authors’ own research and incorporating real-world practical experience in key areas, guiding the reader through lifting operations for turbine components, environmental loads, motion control, structural modelling, and safety assessment for installations, modelling, analysis and control of full assembly installation, and design and optimization for floating installations. Finally, the critical phases of transportation and final mooring hook-up are introduced, and a concluding chapter provides an overview of recent trends and emerging topics, such as robotic technologies, artificial intelligence, and advanced decommissioning solutions, offering routes for future research and development. A volume in the Elsevier Wind Energy Engineering Series, this is an essential resource for all those looking learn the fundamentals, to improve their understanding, and to gain insights into installation concepts, analysis methods, modelling approaches, key tools, and problems and challenges, including researchers, students, engineers, R&D, policy makers and industry professionals.

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