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  • Comprehensive Guide to Green Chemistry

    Principles, Methods, and Real-World Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohd Amin Mir + 1 more
    • English
    Comprehensive Guide to Green Chemistry: Principles, Methods, and Real-World Applications offers a thorough guide to how green chemistry can drive environmental sustainability and address pressing global challenges. Integrating core principles with innovative technologies, it explores renewable energy, eco-friendly practices, and solutions like biofuels, green hydrogen, and solar-driven chemical processes. What sets this book apart is its strong focus on real-world applications. It shows how green chemistry affects everyday life, from agriculture and food packaging to community initiatives. Case studies, emerging trends, and practical examples showcase successful innovations, making sustainability tangible and actionable. Ideal for graduate students, researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers, this volume advances both understanding and practice in green chemistry. It provides guidance for developing environmentally responsible technologies, improving efficiency, and shaping sustainability-orien... policies, illustrating how sustainable practices can be integrated across science, industry, and communities.

  • Nanomaterials as Gene and Nucleic Acid Delivery Platforms

    • 1st Edition
    • Rocktotpal Konwarh + 1 more
    • English
    Nanomaterials as Gene and Nucleic Acid Delivery Platforms explores the intersection between gene therapy and nanotechnology, assessing the benefits of nanoscale platforms for safe and efficient gene and nucleic acid delivery. Sections address the growing need for alternative gene delivery methods to overcome the limitations and safety concerns associated with conventional viral vectors. Four comprehensive parts provide a holistic overview of the core concepts of gene therapy and delivery; the broad range of nanomaterials available for use as carriers; key approaches, and clinical translation of nanomaterial-based delivery platforms for gene therapy.This book will be of great use to researchers and academics in the fields of nanomaterials, biomaterials, gene therapy, molecular biology, immunology, and disease therapeutics. This book may also be of interest to clinicians researching novel materials and approaches for therapeutics.

  • Copper Oxides and Related Materials

    Properties, Synthesis, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Suresh Sagadevan + 2 more
    • English
    Copper Oxides and Related Materials: Properties, Synthesis, and Applications provides a thorough description of the physical, structural, electrophysical, chemical, electronic, and biological properties of copper oxides in one convenient volume. The book focuses on human and environmental aspects, paying particular attention to health, environmental remediation, electronic applications, energy storage, and solar energy conversion.Copper oxides are widely used in many applications such as antibacterial, antimicrobial, and anticancer treatments; as biocide agents against phytopathogens or hospital-acquired diseases; and, they are also a standard material used for superconductivity. This volume thoroughly explores the most exciting and relevant applications of copper oxides, a class of material with a sometimes bewilderingly wide array of potential uses.

  • Digital Fashion and Sustainability

    • 1st Edition
    • Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem
    • English
    Digital Fashion and Sustainability explores the sustainability of digitalisation in the fashion industry and supply chain. As today’s fashion supply chain spans multiple continents and diverse elements, seamless digitalisation is essential for achieving transparency and sustainability. While the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated digitalisation in many industries, the fashion supply chain has lagged behind. Increased scrutiny on product transparency and sustainability highlights the need for digital innovation. Digital fashion encompasses more than just computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM); it integrates product lifecycle management, sustainable business models and virtual and augmented reality to enhance consumer experiences. This multidisciplinary work appeals to academics, researchers and professionals from fashion design, technology, computer science, supply chain management and sustainability, examining how digitalisation can transform the fashion industry for a sustainable future.

  • Rammed Earth Construction and the Use of Additives

    Technologies, Classification, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Hamed Niroumand + 1 more
    • English
    Rammed Earth Construction and the Use of Additives: Technologies, Classification, and Applications reports on earth buildings as viable solution to meet requirements for modern-day, green construction. Opening with a combination of foundational aspects and a discussion on state-of-the-art technologies that enhance the rammed earth technique, the book then investigates the admixtures that can be used to improve raw materials’ durability, strength, and thermal performance. Coverage thoroughly delves into different types of additives, clarifying the origin of those naturally sourced, the manufacturing processes of those manmade, and their specific effects, with a focus on methods for stabilization, reinforcement, and preservation of structures.Real-worl... case studies are also included, bringing practical value-add to an already scientifically robust research resource. This will be an essential guide for a variety of audiences in academic and industry contexts who are committed to finding new ways of thinking and working to fulfill pressing sustainability goals worldwide.

  • Quantum Dots in Energy

    Design, Development, and Emerging Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Rakesh Kumar Sharma + 2 more
    • English
    Quantum Dots in Energy: Design, Development, and Emerging Applications explores quantum dots for energy applications. The book begins with the fundamental properties of quantum dots and then considers their synthesis, fabrication, and characterization techniques before investigating a range of applications in the area of renewable energy solutions and energy-efficient devices. It covers the general properties of quantum dots, recent and possible future applications in the field of energy, and the advantages and disadvantages of various fabrication techniques. Users will also find information on the application of quantum dots in various, important technologies, including light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics, batteries, catalysis, and thermoelectrics.Fina... it looks ahead to future directions for further research and innovation.

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Systems

    A Comprehensive Guide
    • 1st Edition
    • Rajiv Pandey + 3 more
    • English
    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Safety-Critical Systems: A Comprehensive Guide provides engineers and system designers who are exploring the application of AI/ML methods for safety-critical systems with a dedicated resource on the challenges and mitigation strategies involved in their design. The book's authors present ML techniques in safety-critical systems across multiple domains, including pattern recognition, image processing, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), encryption, hardware accelerators, and many others. These applications help readers understand the many challenges that need to be addressed in order to increase the deployment of ML models in critical systems. In addition, the book shows how to improve public trust in ML systems by providing explainable model outputs rather than treating the system as a black box for which the outputs are difficult to explain. Finally, the authors demonstrate how to meet legal certification and regulatory requirements for the appropriate ML models. In essence, the goal of this book is to help ensure that AI-based critical systems better utilize resources, avoid failures, and increase system safety and public safety.

  • Introduction to Computational Electrochemistry

    Modelling Methods and Applications in Interfacial Phenomena, Electrocatalysis, and Energy Storage
    • 1st Edition
    • Hyungjun Kim + 2 more
    • English
    Introduction to Computational Electrochemistry: Modelling Methods and Applications in Interfacial Phenomena, Electrocatalysis, and Energy Storage provides a complete overview of computational approaches and methods for understanding and tailoring complex electrochemical processes, collectively referred to as computational electrochemistry.Fol... a brief introduction to this emerging field, various methodologies are presented to address the intricate processes involved in electrochemical energy interconversion. Emphasis is placed on state-of-the-art multiscale approaches for the advanced simulation of electrochemical interfaces. Recent advancements in incorporating both the electronic responses of electrodes and the molecular dynamic responses of electrolytes are highlighted, enabling a deeper understanding of the physicochemical processes occurring at electrode-electrolyt... interfaces. By compiling recent method developments, this book aims to help pave the way for near-future developments that will unravel the atomic details of electrochemical interfaces and foster the growth of non-conventional methodological approaches. It also introduces applications of modern computational chemistry to various electrochemical systems. These include electrocatalytic systems for efficient energy conversion and energy storage systems such as batteries and supercapacitors. By presenting case studies illustrating how simulations can elucidate underlying mechanisms, explain experimental observations, and guide the design of improved systems, it shows how computational electrochemistry increasingly interplays with experiments in the field of electrochemistry.Int... to Computational Electrochemistry: Modelling Methods and Applications in Interfacial Phenomena, Electrocatalysis, and Energy Storage is intended for computational and experimentally oriented researchers who are working in the field of electrochemistry, particularly those addressing complex interfaces at various scales. It is especially suitable for supporting the education of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, with a focus on both methodological development and high-level, challenging applications.

  • Fiber-Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing

    Principles and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Marcelo A. Soto + 3 more
    • English
    Fiber-Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Principles and Applications addresses the fundamentals of fiber optic distributed acoustic sensors (DAS) and their most important application fields. It is divided into three parts, the first of which covers the theoretical aspects of the working principle of DAS technology, including the description of the main optical components used for DAS monitoring, concepts of Rayleigh scattering, and approaches for resolving the spatial information based on optical time-domain and optical frequency-domain reflectometry. The second part focuses on the different interrogation techniques existing today, including dedicated signal processing and other advanced methods for enhancing sensing performance. The third part of the book is devoted to the main industrial applications of DAS technology, such as structural health monitoring, security, geophysical studies and seismic monitoring, including also relevant aspects related to the industrial standardization of the technology. For a reader with a basic background in photonics, the book provides the basis for knowing and understanding distributed acoustic sensing technology and its applications, in a single volume. It is relevant for a broad range of scientists and researchers working in the fields of photonics, sensing, environmental and structural health monitoring, optical communications, and optical fiber systems.

  • Federated Intelligence in Medicine

    AI-Driven Robotics for Secure and Intelligent Healthcare Systems
    • 1st Edition
    • Manisha Guduri + 3 more
    • English
    Federated Intelligence in Medicine: AI-Driven Robotics for Secure and Intelligent Healthcare Systems explores the rapidly evolving field where medical robotics intersects with cutting-edge artificial intelligence and secure data-sharing technologies. Covering a comprehensive range of topics, the book begins with foundational knowledge in medical robotics and Generative AI, progressing to advanced concepts such as federated learning and architectural modeling tailored for AI-driven robotic systems. Readers will explore algorithms enhancing surgical robotics, remote robotic surgeries, and human-robot interaction. The text also tackles AI-driven diagnostic robots, privacy preservation through homomorphic encryption, and differential privacy and emerging medical imaging techniques integrated with robotics.Later chapters examine the synergy of large language models, agent AI, and edge AI with robotic technologies, providing both theoretical frameworks and practical case studies that illuminate real-world applications and challenges. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and academicians engaged in artificial intelligence, robotics, and medical technology. It also serves undergraduate and graduate students in Biomedical Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering.

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