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Modern Ion Plating Technology

• 1st Edition
• September 28, 2022
• Fuzhen Wang + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-90833-7

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Modern Ion Plating Technology: Fundamentals and Applications discusses the fundamental concepts of plasma physics in various coating technologies and explores its development and implementation into new technologies. Recent progress of technologies and products via ion plating will be introduced. The book begins with the treatment of vacuum physics, through plasma physics. It then presents the various forms of ion plating, before concluding with a section presenting examples of applications where ion plating is employed. Through the material presented in this book, the reader gains an understanding of the importance of ion plating technology to human progress and its various potential applications. Under the guidance of plasma physics knowledge, how to use electric and electromagnetic fields to control the space plasma will be critical to the development of new technology and systems.

Computational Methods for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

• 1st Edition
• September 28, 2022
• Xuechuan Wang + 4 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-99113-1

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• eBook 978-0-323-99114-8

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Computational Methods for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications in Aerospace Engineering proposes novel ideas and develops highly-efficient and accurate methods for solving nonlinear dynamic systems, drawing inspiration from the weighted residual method and the asymptotic method. Proposed methods can be used both for real-time simulation and the analysis of nonlinear dynamics in aerospace engineering. The book introduces global estimation methods and local computational methods for nonlinear dynamic systems. Starting from the classic asymptotic, finite difference and weighted residual methods, typical methods for solving nonlinear dynamic systems are considered. In addition, new high-performance methods are proposed, such as time-domain collocation and local variational iteration. The book summarizes and develops computational methods for strongly nonlinear dynamic systems and considers the practical application of the methods within aerospace engineering.

Advanced Spectroscopic Methods to Study Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

• 1st Edition
• September 28, 2022
• Prakash Saudagar + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-99127-8

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• eBook 978-0-323-99366-1

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Advanced Spectroscopic Methods to Study Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics presents the latest emerging technologies in spectroscopy and advances in established spectroscopic methods. The book presents a guide to research methods in biomolecular spectroscopy, providing comprehensive coverage of developments in the spectroscopic techniques used to study protein structure and dynamics. Seventeen chapters from leading researchers cover key aspects of spectroscopic methods, with each chapter covering structure, folding, and dynamics. This title will help researchers keep up-to-date on the latest novel methods and advances in established methods.

Electrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes

• 1st Edition
• September 27, 2022
• Ali Kargari + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-823032-9

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• eBook 978-0-12-823057-2

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Electrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes: Principles and Applications covers the fundamental basic science and many engineering aspects of electrospun membrane technology and nanofibers, membrane design and membrane processes. The book comprehensively reviews a wide range of applications including pressure-driven processes, MD process, batteries, oil-water separation, air filtration, drug delivery, fuel-cells, and ion-exchange membranes, as well as antimicrobial membranes. Electrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes will be useful for a range of audiences: chemical, polymer, and materials engineers; professors and graduate students working on membrane-based separation technology and electrospun nanofibers; as well as R&D engineers in industry working with applications including water and wastewater treatment, desalination, drug delivery and tissue engineering, new generation of batteries, fuel cells, and air filtration.

Field Measurements for Passive Environmental Remote Sensing

• 1st Edition
• September 27, 2022
• Nicholas R. Nalli
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-823953-7

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• eBook 978-0-12-824226-1

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Field Measurements for Environmental Remote Sensing: Instrumentation, Intensive Campaigns, and Satellite Applications is an academic synthesis of invaluable in situ measurements and techniques leveraged by the science of environmental remote sensing. Sections cover in situ datasets and observing methods used for satellite remote sending applications and validation, synthesizing the various techniques utilized by well-established application areas under a common paradigm. The book serves as both a textbook for students (upper-level undergraduate to graduate level) and a reference book for practitioners and researchers in the atmospheric, oceanic and remote sensing fields.

Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction

• 1st Edition
• September 27, 2022
• Nicholas C. Jacobson + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-90045-4

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• eBook 978-0-323-88561-4

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Digital Therapeutics for Mental Health and Addiction: The State of the Science and Vision for the Future presents the foundations of digital therapeutics with a broad audience in mind, ranging from bioengineers and computer scientists to those in psychology, psychiatry and social work. Sections cover cutting-edge advancements in the field, offering advice on how to successfully implement digital therapeutics. Readers will find sections on evidence for direct-to-consumer standalone digital therapeutics, the efficacy of integrating digital treatments within traditional healthcare settings, and recent innovations currently transforming the field of digital therapeutics towards experiences which are more personalized, adaptable and engaging. This book gives a view on current limitations of the technology, ideas for problem-solving the challenges of designing this technology, and a perspective on future research directions. For all readers, the content on cultural, legal and ethical dimensions of digital mental health will be useful.

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

• 1st Edition
• Volume 75
• September 27, 2022
• Atta-ur Rahman
• English
• Hardback 978-0-323-91250-1

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• eBook 978-0-323-91252-5

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Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and then determine the structures and biological activity of natural products rapidly, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.Studies in Natural Products Chemistry covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products.

Implementation of Smart Healthcare Systems using AI, IoT, and Blockchain

• 1st Edition
• September 27, 2022
• Chinmay Chakraborty + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-91916-6

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• eBook 978-0-323-91936-4

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Implementation of Smart Healthcare Systems using AI, IoT, and Blockchain provides imperative research on the development of data fusion and analytics for healthcare and their implementation into current issues in a real-time environment. While highlighting IoT, bio-inspired computing, big data, and evolutionary programming, the book explores various concepts and theories of data fusion, IoT, and Big Data Analytics. It also investigates the challenges and methodologies required to integrate data from multiple heterogeneous sources, analytical platforms in healthcare sectors. This book is unique in the way that it provides useful insights into the implementation of a smart and intelligent healthcare system in a post-Covid-19 world using enabling technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and blockchain in providing transparent, faster, secure and privacy preserved healthcare ecosystem for the masses.

Aptamers Engineered Nanocarriers for Cancer Therapy

• 1st Edition
• September 25, 2022
• Prashant Kesharwani
• English
• Paperback 978-0-323-85881-6

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• eBook 978-0-323-85576-1

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Aptamers Engineered Nanocarriers for Cancer Therapy details the selection technologies, biological characteristics, and clinical uses of aptamer-based nano agents for cancer therapeutics. The book helps facilitate speedy solutions for some of the problems pertaining to the manufacture of nano-aptamers – such as toxicity, thermal stability, cost efficiency, tumor penetration and blood stability. Key chapters cover cell-SELEX technology for aptamer selection, mechanisms of multi-drug resistance of cancer, the relevance of aptamers as anticancer therapies, as well as the broad range of aptamer-functionalized nanostructures available. This book provides exciting insights into this relatively new approach to cancer therapeutics, and will be of interest to materials scientists, biomedical engineers, molecular biologists, biochemists and clinical scientists, with a focus on cancer therapy.

Advances in the Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of Boron Cluster

• 1st Edition
• Volume 71
• September 25, 2022
• Montserrat Diéguez + 1 more
• English
• Hardback 978-0-323-98831-5

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• eBook 978-0-323-98832-2

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Advances in Catalysis, Volume 71 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Advances in the catalytic and photocatalytic behavior of carborane derived metal complexes, Transition metal catalyzed synthesis of derivatives of polyhedral boron hydrides with B-N, B-P, B-O and B-S bonds, Recent advances in transition metal catalyzed selective cage BH functionalization of o-carboranes, Boron Compounds for Catalytic Applications, Regioselective Carborane B-H/C-H Functionalization, and Derivatization of monocarborane and dodecaborate anions by controlled B–H activation.