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The Materials Science portfolio includes titles covering core knowledge and new research and applications across the field: nanotechnology and nanomaterials; polymers and plastics; textiles; composites and ceramics; electronic, magnetic, and optical materials; metals and alloys; biomaterials; surface and film science and coating technologies; materials chemistry, and more. In-depth coverage, innovative state-of-the-art approaches, and real-world application examples provide valuable, actionable insights for researchers, students, and the corporate sector. Elsevier's Materials Science portfolio places special attention on areas of current and emerging interest such as additive manufacturing / 3D printing, graphene and 2D materials, smart materials, biomimetics... The content in Elsevier's Materials Science titles program addresses core challenges facing science and society: sustainable energy technologies, the circular economy, health and human welfare.

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Handbook of Material Weathering

  • 7th Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • George Wypych
  • English
  • Hardback
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Handbook of Material Weathering, Seventh Edition is an essential guide to the effects of weathering on polymers and industrial products, presenting theory, stress factors, methods of weathering and testing and the effects of additives and environmental stress cracking. The book provides graphical illustrations and numerical data to examine the weathering of major polymers and industrial products, including mechanisms of degradation, effect of thermal processes, and characteristic changes in properties. The book also discusses recycling, corrosion and weathering, and the weathering of stone. This book is an important reference source for those involved in studying material durability, producing materials for outdoor use and actinic exposure, research chemists in the photochemistry field, chemists and material scientists designing new materials, users of manufactured products, those who control the quality of manufactured products and students who want to apply their knowledge to real materials.

PVC Degradation and Stabilization

  • 5th Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • George Wypych
  • English
  • Hardback
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PVC Degradation and Stabilization, Fifth Edition includes new developments in PVC production, new stabilization methods and mechanisms, new approaches to plasticization, methods of waste reprocessing, and much more. The book contains all the information necessary for the successful design of stabilization formulas in any PVC-based product. Other topics covered include degradation by thermal energy, UV, gamma, and other forms of radiation, chemical degradation, and more. Analytical methods for studying degradative and stabilization processes aid readers in establishing a system for verifying results of stabilization with different stabilizing systems. Many new topics included in this edition are of particular interest today, including new developments in PVC production yielding a range of new grades, new stabilization methods and mechanisms (e.g. synergistic mixtures containing hydrotalcites and their synthetic equivalents, beta-diketones, functionalized fillers, Shiff bases), new approaches to plasticization, methods of waste reprocessing (life cycle assessment, reformulation, biodegradable materials, and energy recovery), accelerated degradation due to electric breakdown, and many more.

PVC Formulary

  • 4th Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • George Wypych
  • English
  • Hardback
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PVC Formulary, Fourth Edition provides PVC manufacturers, processers, and users with key information on product development, formulation, additives, and properties. The book contains a trove of data and formulations aiding in the successful development of PVC products and evaluation of formulas that others use. Commercial types and grades, polymer forms, and physical-chemical properties of PVC are discussed in detail, with all essential information required for the decision-making process presented clearly. The book contains over 600 formulations of products belonging to 23 categories that are derived from characteristic methods of production. A broad selection of formulations is used in each category to determine the essential components of formulations used in a particular method of processing, the most important parameters of successful products, troubleshooting information, and suggestions of further sources of information on the method of processing.

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.

Cellulose Based Hydrogels

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Kalim Deshmukh + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Cellulose Based Hydrogels: Production, Properties and Applications provides detailed information on the properties, characterization techniques, preparation methodologies, applications, and commercial viability of cellulose based hydrogels.The book starts with an in-depth overview of the structure of cellulosic materials and their chemical modification approaches, covering various forms of cellulose, such as nanocrystalline and nanofibrillar cellulose. The following chapters focus on characterization methods of such materials, including advanced techniques, followed by a through discussion of the strategies for preparation of cellulose based hydrogels. Finally, applications of cellulosic structures in different fields such as biomedicine, environmental science, and energy are presented.This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students across polymer science, nanomaterials, and materials science, as well as scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals with an interest in sustainable materials and their composites/nanocomposites for advanced applications.

Electromagnetic Heterostructures

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Christian Brosseau
  • English
  • Paperback
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Electromagnetic Properties of Heterostructures: Background and Calculation Methods covers the fundamental aspects of the electromagnetic properties of heterostructures and the theoretical knowledge of the computational techniques needed to understand dielectric phenomena in quantitative and physical terms. The book re-establishes the conceptual foundations of the physics associated with numerical simulation tools of the Laplace or the Poisson equations and shows their immediate implementation. It is relevant for all practicing engineers and materials scientists who develop composite materials that are capable of handling specified technological requirements by utilizing their electromagnetic properties.

Extracellular Vesicles for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • January 2, 2025
  • Anand Krishnan + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Extracellular Vesicles for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications provides an introduction to exosomes and extracellular vesicles, including their unique properties and characterization, before detailing the most-utilized isolation, purification, and surface engineering techniques for their preparation as therapeutic and diagnostic agents. This book reviews recent developments in interdisciplinary research on exosome structure, properties, and engineering approaches as well as their use in diagnosis and treatment of a variety of illnesses such as cancer, tuberculosis, Alzheimer's disease, ophthalmic diseases, and others. Extracellular Vesicles for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications is an important reference for those interested in the development and application of exosomes and extracellular vesicles as biomaterials for us in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

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.

Pervious Concrete Pavements

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Hilal El-Hassan + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Pervious Concrete Pavements: Design, Performance, and Applications provides both a comprehensive theoretical background and practical experiences on the performance of pervious concrete. The book explores the effects of various materials and process parameters on the mechanical, durability, and hydraulic properties of pervious concrete while also examining their hydrological design and water quality. The ability to upscale the use of pervious concrete in construction applications is investigated through field evaluation, lifecycle assessment, and performance prediction using artificial intelligence. The volume presents the latest findings in pervious concrete research, filling a gap in previous relevant publications.

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.

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