Many fascinating applications of liquid crystals -- a material that possesses behaviour in between the crystalline solid and the liquid phases -- h...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering...

Materials science includes those parts of chemistry and physics that deal with the properties of materials. It encompasses four classes of material...

Composite materials are made from at least two different materials with significantly different properties and behaviour. When such materials are c...

Fluorite-based oxide materials such as stabilised zriconias, doped cerias, and urania represent a group of the most important key engineering mater...

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The aim of this monography is to summarise the fundamentals and technical approaches in the processing and behavior of nanostructured materials in ...

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Numerical Simulation of the Heat Conductivity of Randomly Inhomogeneous Two-Dimensional Composite Materials consists of six sections. The introduct...

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In this compilation, examples of film polymeric composites based on azobenzene polymers and metallic complexes for use in electro-optical modulator...

This book presents topical research in the study of organic semiconductors with a focus on the magnetic and electronic properties of organic polyme...

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Palladium is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd. Palladium is also a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal. The unique properties of pa...

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In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the crystallography, chemistry and catalytic performance of perovskites. Topics ...

In this compilation, after considering solid-liquid transition, techniques required to obtain phase change materials are discussed. Various materia...

The discovery of superconductivity behaviour in ceramic materials based on copper oxide suggests that ceramic can be used as an insulator material....

Photonic crystals are periodic optical nanostructures that are designed to affect the motion of photons in a similar way that periodicity of a semi...

Photonic crystals are periodically structured electromagnetic media, possessing photonic band gaps, (ie: ranges of frequency in which light cannot ...