Books in Materials science general

Databook of Antioxidants

2nd Edition
April 2, 2025
Anna Wypych + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Databook of Antioxidants, Second Edition covers general information, physical properties, health and safety considerations, ecological properties, and the use and performance of each featured antioxidant. A general information section includes CAS #, common name/synonym, acronym, chemical category, moisture content, and more. The physical properties section features data on state, odor, color (Gardner and Platinum-cobalt scales), acid number, ash contents, and other characteristics. The health and safety section displays data on flashpoint, autoignition temperatures, explosive LEL and UEL, NFPA flammability and reactivity, ingestion, first aid, and beyond.The ecological properties portion of the book contains data on biodegradation probability, aquatic toxicity LC50, and partition coefficients, and the book concludes with a chapter on use and performance considerations with information on manufacturer, outstanding properties, typical applications, recommended dosage, concentration used, food approval, and more. This book is an excellent companion to the Handbook of Antioxidants, Second Edition which has also been published recently. Both books supplement each other without repeating the same information – one contains data another theory, mechanisms of action, practical effects and implications of application.

Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

1st Edition
March 21, 2025
Afef Hfaiedh + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems: Stabilization and Limit Cycle Generationclearly explains stabilization and limit cycle generation in underactuated mechanical systems (UMS),addressing control design challenges and demonstrating concepts through real-time experiments.The book begins with advancements in UMS, introducing key concepts such as stabilization and limitcycle generation, supported by literature examples. It then focuses on the inertia wheel invertedpendulum, presenting a detailed discussion. The second part tackles stabilization, offering variouscontrol solutions validated through numerical simulations and real-time experiments. The finalpart addresses stable limit cycle generation, detailing three proposed control solutions and theirvalidation through different case studies.This book is a valuable resource for PhD and Master students, engineers, researchers, and educators.It provides guidance in robotics and automatic control, utilizing a simplified methodology forcontrolling underactuated mechanical systems.

Engineering Tribology

5th Edition
March 17, 2025
Gwidon Stachowiak + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Engineering Tribology, Fifth Edition takes an interdisciplinary approach to key concepts and engineering implications of tribology, bringing together the relevant knowledge needed from different fields to achieve effective analysis and control of friction and wear. This edition has been updated to include new content on the computational evaluation of cavitation effects in hydrodynamic bearings, the electrical properties of lubricants, coverage of gas and foil bearings, local directional, fractal signature methods, tribochemistry and mechanical activation, removal of oxide films, models of mechanical activation, advancing tribology with artificial intelligence, modeling, and simulation, and much more.Suitable as an introductory text, this book is also relevant for those working in applied chemistry and bioengineering.

Comprehensive Green Materials

1st Edition
March 1, 2025
Abdul Ghani Olabi
English
eBook
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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.Compr... Green Materials, 3 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.

Comprehensive Green Materials

1st Edition
March 1, 2025
Abdul Ghani Olabi
English
eBook
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Metaheuristics-Based Materials Optimization

1st Edition
February 27, 2025
Harbinder Singh + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Metaheuristics-Based Materials Optimization: Enhancing Materials Applications provides a guide to using metaheuristics-based computational techniques to improve the design, performance, and broaden the applications of various materials. The book fuses optimization algorithms with materials engineering, enabling more accurate simulations and models for analyzing and predicting the behavior of materials under different conditions, allowing for design of materials with improved performance, durability, energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and other desired characteristics. Metaheuristic approaches for material synthesis and design, structural optimization, material characterization, property prediction, and process optimization are all covered, as are comparisons of different algorithms, step-by-step guidelines on how to implement them, and case studies of them being applied in real-world settings.

Advances in Bio-Based Materials for Construction and Energy Efficiency

1st Edition
February 26, 2025
Fernando Pacheco-Torgal + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Advances in Bio-Based Materials for Construction and Energy Efficiency fills a gap in the published literature, discussing bio-based materials and biotechnologies that are crucial for a more sustainable construction industry. With comprehensive coverage and contributions from leading experts in the field, the book includes sections on bio-based materials and biotechnologies for infrastructure applications, bio-based materials and biotechnologies for building energy efficiency, and other applications, such as using biotechnology to reduce indoor air pollution, for water treatment, and in soil decontamination. The book will be an essential reference resource for academic researchers, civil engineers, contractors working in construction works, postgraduate students and other professionals.

Hydrogels in Drug Delivery

1st Edition
February 22, 2025
Alejandro J. Paredes + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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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 27, 2025
Takamichi Nakamoto
English
Paperback
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eBook
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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 24, 2025
Bahram Hemmateenejad + 2 more
English
Paperback
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Nature-Derived Sensors: Basic Principles and Recent Advances offers a wide range of information on nature-inspired solutions for modern sensor technology. A branch of biomimetics science, biomimetic sensors, and sensing technologies have grown rapidly and widely and therefore have found real industrial applications as emerging technologies. As a result of the demand for low-cost, high-quality, and smart sensors, challenges across many scientific fields can be resolved by learning from nature solutions.This book begins with an introductory section dealing with fundamental and basic information about biomimetic mechanisms, materials, algorithms, and tools. Various classes of nature-inspired sensors are also discussed. This book is an excellent reference for graduate students and researchers working with biomimetic sensors, their industrial applications, data science, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things in the processing of sensory data.

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Books in Materials science general

Databook of Antioxidants

Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

Engineering Tribology

Comprehensive Green Materials

Comprehensive Green Materials

Metaheuristics-Based Materials Optimization

Advances in Bio-Based Materials for Construction and Energy Efficiency

Hydrogels in Drug Delivery

Digital Technologies in Olfaction

Nature-Derived Sensors

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