Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Vasile I. Parvulescu + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy and Chemistry through Catalysis provides a broad view of the gaps and opportunities related to the ongoing energy and chemistry transition, particularly in the science and technology, as well as complementary aspects, including societal ones, needed to unlock the future of renewable energy and chemistry through catalysis. It provides background and complementary aspects that are needed to understand the future scenarios to identify priorities and missing aspects in technologies and scientific background, and to create an open mind approach in science and technology to unlock the renewable energy and chemistry future.The book focuses on catalysis and complements the review articles currently available in the literature. It provides general knowledge, allowing the reader to understand the fast-evolving scenario better and, in turn, identify opportunities and needs.

Decentralized Optimization in Networks

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Qingguo Lü, + 5 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Decentralized Optimization in Networks: Algorithmic Efficiency and Privacy Preservation provides the reader with theoretical foundations, practical guidance, and solutions to decentralized optimization problems. The book demonstrates the application of decentralized optimization algorithms to enhance communication and computational efficiency, solve large-scale datasets, maintain privacy preservation, and address challenges in complex decentralized networks. The book covers key topics such as event-triggered communication, random link failures, zeroth-order gradients, variance-reduction, Polyak’s projection, stochastic gradient, random sleep, and differential privacy. It also includes simulations and practical examples to illustrate the algorithms' effectiveness and applicability in real-world scenarios.

Biomass Conversion and High-Value Utilization

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Kai Yan + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Biomass Conversion and High-Value Utilization provides the theoretical foundations, methods, and latest applications on the conversion and utilization of biomass for bioenergy, biofuels, energy storage, and high-value products. The book combines the preparation methods, physical and chemical properties measurement methods, and specific applications of products from biomass via thermal, catalytic, and biological technologies. Divided into two parts, Part I examines the efficient conversion of biomass resources, explaining key concepts, methods, and technological bottlenecks. Part II explores the versatile utilization of functional carbon materials derived from biomass, including catalysts for biodiesel production, metal-air batteries, electrochemical sensors, and wearable electronics. Finally, the book provides an extensive review of each technology; each technology-specific chapter reviews the current and future market demand of the technology, evaluates the economic feasibility of the technology, including cost effectiveness, return on investment, profit forecast, etc., discusses the unique advantages of the technology compared to existing common methods or other alternative technologies, considers the feasibility and practicability of the technology in actual industrial production, and explains the regulatory and environmental requirements and limitations of the technology. Biomass Conversion and High-Value Utilization is an invaluable resource for researchers and students involved in biomass conversion to high-value fuels and other products, and will be of interest to anyone working in bioenergy, biofuels, energy storage, catalysis, electronics and devices, and functional carbon materials.

Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Materials

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Moataz Attallah + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Materials: Techniques, Materials, Applications, Opportunities and Challenges outlines different 3D printing techniques that can be employed to create an array of different magnetic materials, along with how these materials can be effectively applied. The book discusses the additive manufacturing (AM) of soft magnets, permanent (hard) magnets, 4D magnetic shape memory alloys, magnetocaloric materials, and rare earth based magnetic alloys. Different AM techniques are covered, including laser powder bed fusion, directed laser deposition, binder jetting, cold spray, and the different influences of these techniques on the microstructure of the material produced.Common challenges are highlighted with solutions also provided, and applications covered include magnetic shielding, actuators, sensors, robotics, and magnetic heat exchangers for solid state heat pumps.

Plant Extract Loaded Biopolymers For Wound Healing

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Balaji Ayyanar Chinnappan + 5 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Plant Extract Loaded Biopolymers For Wound Healing focuses on the naturally available different plant extracts loaded with biopolymers for wound healing. The book reviews the different structural, mechanical, thermal, in-vitro, and in-vivo characterizations of such extracts and introduces biocomposites, thin film, scaffolds, and natural plants for wound healing. In addition, it discusses the antimicrobial and anti-cancerous properties of plants, together with the synthesis of plant extracts, phytochemicals, and other forms of analysis of plant extracts. The book covers the fabrication of plant extracts loaded with biopolymers and their structural/mechanica... vitro characterization.In later chapters, the following aspects are also discussed: the histopathology analysis of plant extracts loaded with biopolymers; biopolymers for local drug delivery and tissue/bone regeneration; drug release, drug kinetics and swelling studies; contact angle analysis of biopolymers; and FEM simulation of biopolymers.

eCARE for Healthy Ageing

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Luis Figueredo + 3 more
English

"eCARE for Healthy Ageing: Enhanced Caregiving through AI and Robotics Enablers for Healthy Ageing" serves as as a practical guide for researchers, providing a holistic perspective on activities of daily living (ADLs), health monitoring, and social interaction in the context of caregiving for older adults. In the first part, "Real-world Care Tasks and Requirements," the book addresses practical applications, aiming to guide future research based on end-users and establish the foundation for assistive technologies. The second part focuses on challenges in caregiving from a robotics and AI perspective, covering topics like environment interaction, navigation, manipulation, and learning new tasks. The third part extends the discussion to ADLs involving physical contact, such as dressing and feeding. It explores perception, health monitoring, physical collaboration, and interaction, addressing technological challenges and opportunities. The fourth part delves into the cognitive aspects of human-robot interaction, exploring social interaction with older adults. The final part integrates insights from large studies and successful cases, connecting them to the earlier discussions. It highlights limitations, ethical considerations, and individual needs/dilemmas in achieving a holistic robotics and AI solution for Geriatronics.

Mastering Prompt Engineering

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Anand Nayyar + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Mastering Prompt Engineering: Deep Insights for Optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs) is a comprehensive guide that takes readers on a journey through the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and prompt engineering. Covering foundational concepts, advanced techniques, ethical considerations, and real-world case studies, this book equips both novices and experts to navigate the complex LLM landscape. It provides insights into LLM architecture, training, and prompt engineering methods, while addressing ethical concerns such as bias and privacy. Real-world case studies showcase the practical application of prompt engineering in a wide range of settings. This resource is not just for specialists but is a practical and ethically conscious guide for AI practitioners, students, scientific researchers, and anyone interested in harnessing the potential of LLMs in natural language processing and generation. Mastering Prompt Engineering serves as a gateway to a deeper understanding of LLMs and their responsible and effective utilization through its comprehensive, ethical, and practical approach.

Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Sakhr M. Sultan + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Photovoltaic Module Cooling Techniques: Types, Applications, Assessment Methods, and Current and Future Challenges offers an up-to-date, central resource covering the latest photovoltaic module cooling techniques and their application, performance assessment methods, and the current and future challenges. The book begins by introducing photovoltaic technology before reviewing existing types and applications of PV cooling techniques and their effects on performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.Subsequ... chapters examine, in detail, various methods and approaches, including temperature dependent PV efficiency and power difference factors, PV cooling techniques, production cost effectiveness, the use of power ratio for evaluating performance of PV coolers when different PV reference power values are used, lifespan effectiveness factor and critical mass flow rate for evaluating performance of cooling techniques, and the definition and use of energy per weight, volume and area factors for assessing performance. This book is of interest to all those working on photovoltaics performance, efficiency, and development, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, manufacturers, designers, and policymakers.

Recent Developments in the Field of IR Detectors

1st Edition
Volume 118
August 1, 2025
Sarath Gunapala + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Recent Developments in the Field of IR Detectors, Volume 118 in the Semiconductors and Semimetals series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters, including Type-II superlattice unipolar barrier infrared detectors, Fabrication and characterization of Ga-free T2SL structure for high performance infrared photodetector, Extracting Material and Structural Properties from Conventional Test Data of III-V Superlattice Detectors, Antimony-based Type-II superlattice infrared detectors: Focal Plane Arrays, Near-room temperature InAsSb-based infrared photodetectors, and more.Other sections cover Interband cascade infrared Photodetectorsand Engineering of Superlattice Based Avalanche Photodiodes.

Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision

5th Edition
August 1, 2025
Mark Nixon + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision, Fifth Edition is an essential guide to the implementation of image processing and computer vision techniques, with tutorial introductions and sample code in MATLAB and Python. Algorithms are presented and fully explained to enable complete understanding of the methods and techniques demonstrated, providing a link between theory and implementation. Essential background theory is carefully explained. This text gives students and researchers in image processing and computer vision a complete introduction to classic and state-of-the art methods in feature extraction together with practical guidance on their implementation.

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