Emerging Materials and Technologies
About the Book Series
The Emerging Materials and Technologies book series is devoted to highlighting publications centered on emerging advanced materials and novel technologies. Attention is paid to those newly discovered or applied materials with potential to solve pressing societal problems and improve quality of life, corresponding to environmental protection, medicine, communications, energy, transportation, advanced manufacturing, and related areas.
The series takes into account that, under present strong demands for energy, material, and cost savings, as well as heavy contamination problems and worldwide pandemic conditions, the area of emerging materials and related scalable technologies is a highly interdisciplinary field, with the need for researchers, professionals, and academics across the spectrum of engineering and technological disciplines. The main objective of this book series is to attract more attention to these materials and technologies and invite conversation among the international R&D community.
Atomic Force Microscopy for Energy Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Cai Shen
October 04, 2024
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) can be used to analyze and measure the physical properties of all kinds of materials at nanoscale in the atmosphere, liquid phase, and ultra-high vacuum environment. It has become an important tool for nanoscience research. In this book, the basic principles of ...
Energy Storage and Conversion Devices: Supercapacitors, Batteries, and Hydroelectric Cells
1st Edition
Edited
By Anurag Gaur, A. L. Sharma, Anil Arya
October 04, 2024
This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the research and development in designing electrode and electrolyte materials for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors. Further, green energy production via the water splitting approach by the hydroelectric cell is also explored. Features include: ...
Nanotechnology for Smart Concrete
1st Edition
By Ghasan Fahim Huseien, Nur Hafizah A. Khalid, Jahangir Mirza
October 04, 2024
Nanomaterials can markedly improve the mechanical properties of concrete, as well as reduce the porosity and enhance the durability of concrete. The application of nanotechnology in concrete is still in its infancy. However, an ever-growing demand for ultra-high-performance concrete and recurring ...
Polymer-Based Composites: Design, Manufacturing, and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By V. Arumugaprabu, R. Deepak Joel Johnson, M. Uthayakumar, P. Sivaranjana
October 04, 2024
The increasing use of composite materials over conventional materials has been a continual trend for over a decade. While the fundamental understanding of fiber reinforcement has not changed, many new material advancements have occurred, especially in manufacturing methods, and there is an ...
Recycled Ceramics in Sustainable Concrete: Properties and Performance
1st Edition
By Kwok Wei Shah, Ghasan Fahim Huseien
October 04, 2024
Recycled Ceramics in Sustainable Concrete: Properties and Performance explores the use of novel waste materials in the construction industry as sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional cement production technologies. It specifically focuses on using waste ceramics as a ...
Recycling of Plastics, Metals, and Their Composites
1st Edition
Edited
By R.A. Ilyas, S.M. Sapuan, Emin Bayraktar
October 04, 2024
Having a solid understanding of materials recycling is of high importance, especially due to the growing use of composites in many industries and increasingly strict legislation and concerns about the disposal of composites in landfills or by incineration. Recycling of Plastics, Metals, and Their ...
Smart Micro- and Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Applications, Two-Volume Set
1st Edition
Edited
By Ajit Behera, Arpan Kumar Nayak, Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra, Ali Ahmed Rabaan
August 27, 2024
The application of clinical smart nanocarriers continues to be a fruitful and challenging field for both academic and clinical disciplines as well as industries. These clinically approved micro- and nanobased products have impacted treatment of numerous predominant diseases including cancer, ...
Functional Nanomaterials for Regenerative Tissue Medicines
1st Edition
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By Mariappan Rajan
May 27, 2024
This book covers nanomaterials in tissue engineering for regenerative therapies of heart, skin, eye, skeletal muscle, and the nervous system. The book emphasizes fundamental design concepts and emerging forms of nanomaterials in soft- and hard-tissue engineering. FEATURES Fills a gap in the ...
Semiconducting Black Phosphorus: From 2D Nanomaterial to Emerging 3D Architecture
1st Edition
By Han Zhang, Nasir Mahmood Abbasi, Bing Wang
May 27, 2024
Black phosphorus (BP)-based two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are used as components in practical industrial applications in biomedicine, electronics, and photonics. There is a need to controllably shape engineered scalable structures of 2D BP building blocks, and their assembly/organization is ...
Uncertainty Quantification of Stochastic Defects in Materials
1st Edition
By Liu Chu
May 27, 2024
Uncertainty Quantification of Stochastic Defects in Materials investigates the uncertainty quantification methods for stochastic defects in material microstructures. It provides effective supplementary approaches for conventional experimental observation with the consideration of stochastic factors...
Handbook of Calcium-Based Materials, Two-Volume Set
1st Edition
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By S.S. Nanda, Jitendra Pal Singh, Sanjeev Gautam, Dong Kee Yi
May 15, 2024
This comprehensive handbook describes fundamentals and recent advances in the synthesis and application of calcium-based materials, in a two-volume format. The first volume, Calcium-Based Biomaterials: Processing and Characterization, introduces the possibility of designing these materials for ...
Fire-Resistant Paper: Materials, Technologies, and Applications
1st Edition
By Ying-Jie Zhu
September 25, 2023
Even in today's electronic information age, traditional paper is a multi-purpose product that continues to be indispensable to people’s daily work and lives. While paper is a valued product, the paper industry contributes to environmental pollution and consumption of natural resources, and the ...