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    • Methods of Medical Biohybrid Microrobots

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Veronika Magdanz + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Methods in Medical Biohybrid Microrobots provides the fundamental framework to design, fabricate and characterize biohybrid microrobots. This book presents frameworks to design motion control systems based on magnetic actuation, introducing noninvasive localization methods and several approaches to biomedical applications of magnetic biohybrid microrobots.Providin... practical and theoretical hints on different aspects of microrobots, from propulsion mode, control mode, to imaging and drug loading, this book will be useful to graduate students, senior undergraduate students, researchers, and professionals in biomedical engineering, as well as medical researchers, providing the technical and experimental know-how for designing, fabricating, and operating biohybrid microrobots.

    • Advancing Thermal Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Amit Soni + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advancing Thermal Technologies: Practical Applications and Future Materials is a comprehensive exploration of the vital intersection between thermal materials and technology. This book delves into the intricate realm of thermal science, navigating through the latest advancements and innovative materials shaping the future landscape of technology. With a focus on practical applications, it offers insights and strategies to enhance energy efficiency, optimize manufacturing processes, and promote sustainability across various industries. Topics covered include thermoelectric devices and applications, advancements in thermoelectric technology, and ejector-enhanced heat pumps. It also explores heat transfer and conduction in composite materials, as well as advanced materials for thermal applications.The book further delves into solar energy and energy efficiency, including the application of phase change materials in solar panels, and energy storage and nanotechnology, such as recent developments in energy storage utilizing quantum dots.

    • Mountain Biodiversity

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Robert Marchant
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Mountain Biodiversity: Pattern, Process and Challenges to our World's High-Altitude Areas explores the highly biodiverse, culturally rich, and often threatened mountain regions that comprise a quarter of the world's continental land surface. These complex areas play a fundamental role in shaping continental-scale climates and have long been recognized as globally important centers of biodiversity. Mountains cover only 25% of global continental land surface yet are home to more than 85% of the world’s amphibians, birds, and mammals, many of which are entirely restricted to mountains. Despite their importance as stores of biodiversity and drivers of global sustainability, high altitude areas are particularly vulnerable to climate change and human interventions.Writte... by a leading expert in tropical mountain ecology, this book explores the processes that define the world's high-altitude areas in an easily digestible manner. Early chapters characterize high-altitude areas according to topography, fire regime, and climate. Dr. Marchant collates palaeoecological, archaeological, and historical insights to synthesize the intersection between mountain societies, ecosystems, and climate. Middle chapters examine the relationship between mountain climates and insect, bird, and mammalian biodiversity. Final chapters describe the future of land use, climate, and biodiversity, and explore opportunities to combine insights from different disciplines to enable pathways for more sustainable futures in sustainable mountain development.High-alt... regions are not adequately protected, and many mountain ranges remain completely unprotected. The status of these important storehouses of biodiversity is under increasing threat via population growth, climatic extremes, and land use change. High-Altitude Biodiversity will present current biodiversity across the world's mountains and use this information to identify priorities for new ways to understand, value, protect, and conserve high altitude areas. By taking a novel interdisciplinary approach that combines temporally and spatially diverse datasets from high altitude areas around the world, this can be used to inform future development.

    • Exoplanet Detection Methods

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Camilla Danielski
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Exoplanet Detection Methods: Uncovering the Evolution of Planetary Systems is a comprehensive guide that delves into modern techniques for detecting exoplanets. It explores current methods while unravelling the fascinating story of planetary system evolution. Each chapter is meticulously structured to introduce detection methods, offer step-by-step instructions, analyze datasets, and present available instrumentation. This book caters to both beginners and seasoned researchers, providing them with the means to understand the characteristics and evolutionary timelines of different planetary populations.Beyond methodological insights, the book includes online proposal case studies, curated lists of resources, and further detailed step-by-step methods. This makes it an indispensable companion for those venturing into exoplanetary studies or working on planetary demographics.

    • Quantitative Methods in Stratigraphy

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Ondřej Bábek
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Quantitative Methods in Stratigraphy: A Multi-Proxy Palaeoenvironmental Analysis of Outcrop and Core Data explores the current advances in technology, offering a wide range of quantitative geophysical, geochemical, and spectral methods, which are less expensive, timesaving, and often non-destructive. The book first outlines the main principles and applications of stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental analysis. Chapters then work methodically through quantitative data in stratigraphy, gamma-ray methods, magnetic susceptibility and magnetometry, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Near infrared (NIR) and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy as well as energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectroscopy are reviewed in- depth.With the wide range of now affordable quantitative methods, high-resolution sampling, and large datasets available across strata, outcrop research can offer unprecedented potential for outcrop-to-core-to-w... log correlation, and subsequent (paleo)environmental analysis while keeping data reproducibility at a high level.This book serves as a useful reference guide for geoscientists, academicians, and researchers, helping them keep pace with advances in technology and instrumentation and conduct state-of-the-art research in geosciences.

    • Handbook of Natural Polymers, Volume 3

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2026
      • Sreekala Meyyarappallil Sadasivan + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Handbook of Natural Polymers: Versatile Applications offers a comprehensive and current overview of advanced uses of natural biopolymers across diverse fields. Beginning with an introduction to the state-of-the-art and emerging opportunities, the book explores natural polymers in areas such as biosensing, drug delivery, cosmetics, tissue engineering, textiles, adhesives, food technology, super adsorbents, automotive and construction materials, 3D printing, paper, nanoelectronics, separation processes, military uses, smart devices, water purification, dentistry, agriculture, packaging, and energy storage.Each section details polymer sources, preparation, properties, and applications, highlighting innovations and new directions. Sustainable themes including environmental remediation and conversion of natural polymers into biofuels are also addressed.As part of a three-volume handbook offering comprehensive coverage of natural polymers, this book will appeal to academic researchers, scientists, advanced students, engineers, and R&D professionals across multiple disciplines and industries seeking broad and detailed knowledge of natural polymers and their applications.

    • Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in the Atmospheric and Aquatic Environments

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 113
      • March 1, 2026
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in the Atmospheric and Aquatic Environments delves into the dynamic and complex roles of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) across atmospheric and aquatic environments. This volume examines the occurrence, transformations, and ecological implications of ROS/RNS in aquatic systems, particularly their impact on biogeochemical cycles. It provides critical insights into modern techniques for sampling, handling, and analysing ROS/RNS, offering practical guidance for accurate environmental monitoring. The volume also addresses the frontiers of sensor technology, with a focus on nanoparticle-based sensors for detecting ROS/RNS with high selectivity and sensitivity, as well as atmospheric ROS/RNS and their direct and indirect effects on air quality and human health - an area of growing concern in climate and public health research.

    • Principles of Modern Grinding Technology

      • 3rd Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • W. Brian Rowe + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Structured as a comprehensive teaching aid, the third edition of Principles of Modern Grinding Technology caters to a wide range of professionals and students, including application engineers, manufacturing engineers, technicians, researchers, teachers, and students. It expertly guides the reader through every aspect of the grinding process, incorporating the latest advancements in high-speed grinding, cost reduction techniques, vibration troubleshooting, and productivity optimization. Moreover, it demonstrates how to simultaneously enhance grinding precision, improve result quality, and increase output. The third edition represents an expanded and revised version, encompassing cutting-edge developments such as ultra-precision grinding. It offers thorough analyses of the factors influencing grinding behavior and showcases practical applications through numerous worked examples. The book extensively references leading research to substantiate the advancements in the field. Advanced grinding exemplifies the core principles of manufacturing science. It initially introduces the fundamentals of material removal by grinding, followed by an in-depth examination of grinding tools and their preparation. This book delves into the intricacies of grinding mechanics, including thermal performance and quality-related concerns. Finally, it explores practical grinding applications while considering economic factors to highlight worthwhile investments and potential cost reductions. In this edition, several new chapters have been added to enhance the book's relevance and coverage. These include discussions on real contact in grinding, grinding energy, thermal damage, grinding machine developments, vibrations in grinding, and grinding process control.

    • Urban Air Pollution and Plant Responses

      • 1st Edition
      • July 1, 2026
      • Ansuman Sahoo + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Urban Air Pollution and Plant Responses: The Critical Connection Between Urban Air Quality and Plants delves into the complex relationship between urban air pollution and plants, examining how plants are affected by air pollutants in urban environments. An expert group of contributing authors explores the nature and sources of urban air pollutants, highlighting the challenges posed by poor air quality in urban areas. The chapters cover various plant responses to urban air pollution, including physiological, morphological, and biochemical reactions. Additionally, the book addresses the impact of urban air pollution on agriculture and discusses the role of plants in producing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their effects on air pollution. Sustainable urban planning strategies, innovations in urban greening, and policy and management approaches are explored as means to improve air quality and create healthier urban landscapes. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the critical connection between urban air quality, air pollution, and plant health, offering insights and solutions for achieving sustainable, cleaner growth in urban areas.

    • Metal Plasticity

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • Yanshan Lou
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Metal Plasticity: Experimental Characterization and Constitutive Modeling outlines the fundamentals of plastic deformation of metals, related constitutive modeling techniques, and how best to apply those modeling techniques. It summarizes the plastic behaviors of metals based on experimental observations while also reviewing related constitutive models used to determine their plastic deformation, including isotropic yield functions, anisotropic yield functions, asymmetric yield functions, anisotropic hardening yield functions, and more. It demonstrates the yield surfaces of functions under 2D plane stress, 3D plane stress with shear stress effect, 3D triaxial loading, and more. The development of different plasticity models, including their form, parameters, calibration, accuracy, and advantages and disadvantages are outlined as well, and the book also summarizes and compares the various models, emphasizing their costs and user-friendliness and allowing readers to select the model that best meets their needs.

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