Bücher der Reihe Engineering Materials and Processes

Fusion bonding is one of three methods used to join composite and dissimilar materials. This text provides an understanding of the physical mechanisms involved, covering: heat transfer in fusion bonding; modelling thermal degradation; consolidation mechanisms; crystallisation kinetics; and more.

This book reviews work that covers everything from basic chemistry to advanced applications. Chitin and chitosan are used in a plethora of applications from wastewater treatment to prosthetics. After introducing the subject of polysaccharides as a whole, the authors turn to the preparation of chitin and chitosan and the characterization of the latter. The book provides information on chitin chemistry, extraction of chitin, chitosan preparation processes, and the applications of their derivatives in various fields. Among the applications that are included in detail are the adsorption of heavy metals for pollution prevention and clean-up, biosensors, cosmetics, various medical applications from anti-tumor activity to bone tissue engineering, agriculture and food production, and proton exchange membranes for fuel cells.Chitin and Chitosan features:*  information on molecular structure, synthesis, properties, and latest research related to chitin and chitosan;*  coverage of a wide range of topics from the properties of chitosan to its derivatives and applications;*  in-depth information on biomedical applications of chitin and chitosan; and*  information that can be applied to other biopolymer processing engineering areas.This book will be of interest to practitioners working in a wide variety of industries for which chitin and chitosan are useful materials, researchers in biosensors and heavy-metal adsorption, and to academic researchers investigating the properties, preparation, and uses of these materials.

This advanced comprehensive textbook introduces the practical application of phase diagrams to the thermodynamics of materials consisting of several phases.

The book comprises three parts. Part 2 is the core of the book and deals with the metallurgical basis of microstructures, with four main themes: phase diagrams, solidification processes, diffusion, and solid state phase transformations.

Fuel Cell Technology is an up-to-date survey of the development of this technology and will be bought by researchers and graduate students in materials control and chemical engineering working at universities and institutions and researchers and technical managers in commercial companies working in fuel cell technology.

This book provides an up to date survey of the state of the art of research into the materials used in information technology, and will be bought by researchers in universities, institutions as well as research workers in the semiconductor and IT industries.

Bardal combines a description of practical corrosion processes and problems with a theoretical explanation of the various types and forms of corrosion, with a central emphasis on the connections between practical problems and basic scientific principles.

Die Casting: An Analytical Approach will refresh knowledge of the governing laws of the fluid dynamics that have an effect on die cast die and die cast process design. It will be bought by product designers that design die cast parts and die cast die and process engineers and designers.

The first edition of "Composite Materials" introduced a new way of looking at composite materials. This second edition expands the book's scope to emphasize application-driven and process-oriented materials development. The approach is vibrant yet functional.

Molecules which can respond to their environment and the smart machines we can build with them are and will continue to be a vital part of this 21st-century revolution. This title features an assessment of the properties and materials chemistry of the major classes of intelligent macromolecules from optoelectronic biomacromolecules to dendrimers.

This book offers a practical introduction into the physics, design, modelling, fabrication and measurement methods for ferroelectric components and devices. It also explores emerging functionalities and components with enhanced performance.

Written from the viewpoint of physical chemistry, this authoritative and established text deals with the aqueous corrosion of metals. The concentration is on the underlying essentials of corrosion and failure, and the material is consistently presented in relation to practical applications to corrosion protection.

"Charged Defects in Semiconductors" details the current state of knowledge regarding the properties of the ionized defects that can affect the behaviour of advanced transistors, photo-active devices, catalysts, and sensors.

Developments in the use of electrospun fibrous materials, for application in tissue engineering and in carbon fibrous materials in fuel cells, has generated new interest in the dependence of the properties and structure of these materials on those of their constituent fibres.

Anyone involved in circuit technology will find this an absolute must-read. It's the first book to discuss the current understanding of silver metallization and its potential as a future interconnect material for integrated circuit technology.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the freezing of colloidal suspensions and explores cutting-edge research in the field.

Using a variety of illustrations, this book covers the majority of the techniques available for polishing diamond and polycrystalline diamond composites. These enable the reader to understand the merits and drawbacks of each existing technique.

This highlights ongoing research efforts on different aspectsof polymer nanocomposites and explores their potentials to exhibitmulti-functional properties. Offering aninvaluable resource for materials researchers and postgraduate students in thepolymer composites field, theywill also greatly benefit materials

This book discusses FBAR physics, design, modeling, fabrication and applications, along with tuning of the resonant frequency of FBARs and switchable and tuneable FBARs based on electric field induced piezoelectric effect in paraelectric phase ferroelectrics.

This book investigates the problem of prediction and non-monotonicity of the effective electromechanical properties in two- and three-component composites based on ferroelectric ceramics and relaxor-ferroelectric single crystals.

Chemical Vapour Deposition explores the design capabilities and applications of advanced materials. From physical fundamentals to the optimization of processing parameters, this volume presents the development and manufacture of high performance materials.

Written by authorities in the subject, this book provides a complete treatment of metal forming and machining by using the computational techniques FEM, fuzzy set theory and neural networks as modelling tools.

This book discusses recent advances in the chemistry involved in the controlled synthesis and assembly of metal oxide nanoparticles. It addresses the characterization required by such nanoobjects as well as their size- and shape-dependent properties.

Porous semiconductor materials are finding applications in many areas of science and technology. This detailed book provides a detailed examination of these new types of materials, with an emphasis on optical properties and optical applications.

Dealing with extrusion in ceramics, this title provides the principles of extrusion of ceramics, history of extrusion in the ceramic industry, rheology of ceramic bodies, simulation for ceramic extrusion, wear and contamination in extrusion, and additives for extrusion etcetera in 20 chapters.

Semiconductor spintronics is expected to lead to a new generation of transistors, lasers and integrated magnetic sensors that can be used to create ultra-low power, high speed memory, logic and photonic devices. This book details the research into the properties of III-nitride semiconductors and their usefulness in novel devices.

This book provides deep insight into basic micromechanisms of fracture behavior of materials as well as a number of engineering applications. It is the result of 20 years research in fatigue and fracture and discusses the state of the art for each.

This comprehensive summary of the current state of the art of titanium addresses all aspects of titanium. Richly illustrated with more than 300 figures, this compendium takes a conceptual approach to the physical metallurgy and applications of titanium, making it suitable as a reference and tutorial for materials scientists and engineers.

Fatigue of Fiber-reinforced Composites describes the fatigue behavior of several types of composite materials. Based on a presentation of experimental results, the chapters demonstrate theoretical models for predicting the fatigue life of composites and cover complete design methodologies.