Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Current Advancements in Nanomaterials for Wastewater Remediation

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Igor Krupa + 2 more
English
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Current Advancements in Nanomaterials for Wastewater Remediation: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in wastewater treatment supported mainly by nanotechnology-assisted techniques. It brings together the latest advances in nanomaterials and technologies and their diverse applications for wastewater remediation.The book begins by discussing water quality standards, monitoring strategies and different sources of water pollution, including various organic and inorganic contaminants like oil spills, dyes, metal pollutants, food waste and pharmaceutical wastes. Subsequent chapters provide the latest developments on the science, engineering and application of advanced nanomaterials for a wide range of technologies used for wastewater treatment and produced water treatment, such as physical, chemical, nanomaterial assisted, and membrane supported methods and techniques.Scientists and researchers in academia and industry will benefit from this comprehensive resource on the nanomaterials behind the technologies at which wastewater sources can be purified from contaminants.

Density Functional Theory

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Aleksey E Kuznetsov
English
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Density Functional Theory: Fundamental Theory, Key Methods, and Applications provides a thorough and detailed explanation and overview of this important computational quantum mechanical modeling method and its applications. The book's chapters are structured to be easier to understand and more accessible to the target audience. Split into three distinct sections, it examines foundational knowledge surrounding DFT, covering key concepts such as the Thomas-Fermi model and Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham theory, exchange-correlation functionals, the advantages and disadvantages of DFT compared to MO theory, and other methods before exploring areas of future DFT development.The second section then examines practical methods and approaches for DFT, looking at the types of density functionals such as LSDA, GGA and meta-GGA functionals, hybrid functionals, DFTB methods, dispersion corrected functionals, Time-Dependent DFT, and the Plane-wave approach. It also looks at relations between DFT and ab initio molecular dynamics and the QM/MM approach. The final section then focuses on applications and some useful case studies of use of DFT in different areas, whilst weighing up strengths and weaknesses in such applications.

Science and Technology of Silkworm Sericin

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Sabu Thomas + 3 more
English
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Science and Technology of Silkworm Sericin: Extractions, Modifications and Applications focuses on the development and performance of many novel strategies for sericin extraction, modification, and its application.This book includes contributions from leading researchers in the fields of materials science, medical science, chemical science, and nanotechnology from companies, university, government, and private research institutes all around the world.Graduates and postgraduates, as well as research experts, will find this book to be an invaluable resource (primarily in the field of materials science, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry and nanoscience and nanotechnology).In addition, nearly every analytical approach has been covered. As a result, academics, students, industry, scientists, and end-users will be able to benefit from it.

The Carbon Footprint of our Primary Energy Sources

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Mukul Sharma
English
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The Carbon Footprint of our Primary Energy Sources supplies readers with a comprehensive, accessible analysis of the carbon footprints of a range of primary energy sources including crude oil, natural gas, coal, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, hydroelectric energy, nuclear energy and biofuels, and their carbon footprints, employing a full lifecycle assessment (LCA) of each primary energy source. This text, along with its accompanying interactive calculator, furnishes both the foundation and a tool for estimating carbon footprints for a range of energy systems. The work culminates in a cost-benefit analysis of these primary energy sources.With the significant uptick of global investment in alternative energies and the global focus on reducing emissions, this text delivers an important foundational overview/understanding of these systems, and an opportunity for teachers and readers to apply learnings to their own energy consumption choices.

Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Zeba Khanam + 2 more
English
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Advanced Electrochemical Materials and Devices for Clean Energy and Environment presents recent advancements, revolutionary breakthroughs, and unraveled challenges in the development of electrochemical materials and devices for energy and environmental applications. The book discusses the latest trends in synthesis, processing, fabrication, characterization, and properties of materials. In addition, it highlights novel sustainable materials such as natural polysaccharides, biochar, plant-waste, animal-waste, other waste materials as promising substitutes for use in next-generation electrochemical devices.The book also demonstrates crossroads research where the electrochemical removal of pollutants can be coupled with the electrical energy production, such as in biological fuel cells; desalination batteries/supercapacitors; and other integrated devices. This is a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, scientists, and professionals from a variety of sectors, including electrochemists, chemical engineers, environmental scientists, materials scientists, and energy researchers across academia and industry.

Sustainable Composites for Automotive Engineering

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Vijay Raghunathan + 3 more
English
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Sustainable Composites for Automotive Engineering presents recent trends in this important research field. Emphasis is placed on the development, characterization, and application of lightweight composites in various automobile components. The types of materials covered include polymer composites, metal matrix and ceramic matrix composites. The book takes a 360-degree approach and covers all aspects of the product development cycle including materials selection, as well as design and development processes, testing, characterization, modelling and simulation, and applications. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, industrial R&D, automotive engineers, and manufacturers working in the design and development of composite materials for applications in automotive components.

Internet of Things (IoT) - An Engineering Approach

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Xicai Yue
English
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Internet of Things (IoT) – An Engineering Approach: From Principles to Practice provides clear engineering practice guides on developing intelligent sensor/actuator nodes and then forming an IoT system, without the confusion of network/communication protocols.IoT will be widely used in smart homes, smart cities, digital health, and digital manufacturers. However, the development of an IoT system can be complicated since it combines technologies in networking and security, wireless communication, broadband cellular networks, sensors and actuators, data acquisition and real-time embedded systems, edge computing with artificial intelligence, and low-power electronics technologies.All engineering practice topics come with examples mostly from the first-hand materials of the author’s research projects, e.g. digital switching, powering indoor IoT sensor nodes by photovoltaic energy harvesting, laser sensors for greenhouse plant, low-power electronics for implantable neural recording for blowfly, zero-power passive sensing, MEMs capacitor for ultrasound imaging/digital speaker, contactless electrode for physiological measurements, EoG based gaze tracking for augmented reality. Therefore, this book can be used for teaching or used as a reference for relevant research.

Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
F. Pacheco-Torgal + 5 more
English
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Advances in Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling: Digital Technologies, Management, Processing and Environmental Assessment presents recent research in recycling and reuse of concrete and demolition waste in construction applications. The book starts with a detailed introductory section on digital technologies that are used to enhance circularity. Part Two focuses on the management of construction and demolition waste, including estimation of quantities and the use of BIM and GIS tools. Part Three reviews the processing of recycled aggregates, along with the performance of concrete mixtures using different types of recycled aggregates. Part Four looks at the environmental assessment of non-hazardous waste. This book will be a standard reference for civil engineers, structural engineers, architects, and academic researchers working in the field of construction and demolition waste.

Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Prashant Kesharwani + 1 more
English
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Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery compiles the latest advances in the development and application of QD nanocarriers for delivery of a range of therapeutic agents. QDs are widely accepted because of their dominant striking characteristics including biocompatibility, photoluminescence, morphology, size, and stability. This book systematically reviews the benefits and challenges of using QDs in drug delivery applications, evaluating their toxicity, safety, preclinical and clinical aspects.Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery is of interest to a broad audience, including researchers and academics working in the fields of biomaterials, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical science and biomedical engineering.

Food, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Roberto Castro-Muñoz + 2 more
English
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Food, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment provides an overview of current techniques, processes, and strategies in the field of wastewater management, dealing either with the recovery of co-products, biomolecules or simply water recovery and purification. The book highlights the latest developments in different areas of agro-food productions, focusing on innovative technologies and control strategies in the treatment of wastewaters derived from different industries, including dairy, seafood processing plants, olive oil manufacturing factories, fruit juice and beverage, wine and beer and various other food processing facilities.In addition, it features technologies and processes ranging from adsorption-assisted technologies, advanced oxidation processes, hydrodynamic cavitation, pressure-driven membrane technologies, algae-based treatments, membrane bioreactors, engineered composite materials-based treatments, photocatalysis-based treatments, and ultrasound-assisted electrochemical processes.

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