The developed original principles and approaches for advanced materials and composites (ferro-piezoelectrics, nanostructures, functional materials ...

Subject Scope: chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, ceramics, metallurgy, and biomaterials. Advanced materials can be defined in numerous ways; the ...

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

Pyrite is a widely spread natural mineral and important organic material. It participates in numerous geochemical processes, including oxidation re...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of ident...

Radioactive material is used worldwide for legitimate commercial purposes, including industrial processes in the oil and gas, aerospace, and food s...

Due to their strong hardness, abrasives are suitable to produce material removal in contact with surfaces and have a high resistance to wear. Field...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of adhesions. Topics discussed in this compilation include surface analysis techniq...

Ceramic materials are usually considered as most brittle since they are full of defects, sometimes difficult to determine, that affect all their pr...

In this book, the authors gather and present recent advances in magnetism research. Topics discussed include the field theory of magnetism; long-ra...

It is certainly eagerness of every manufacturer to be able to look through a finished product without destroying it. Indeed, using modern technolog...

Silicones are itself a fascinating class of materials due to their unusual properties combination. One of their particularities is incompatibility ...

The goal of the first chapter is to express the main achievements in use of the Jahn-Teller effect (JTE) and pseudo JTE (PJTE) in search of materia...

Since the development of linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) decades ago, its limitations have been discussed extensively. Methods of manipula...

A very large part of metallic materials is used in the wrought form. Several thermomechanical processing (TMP) steps are usually employed to produc...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of renewable resources and biotechnology for material applications. Topics discussed...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of magnetic materials. Topics discussed include the principles of creating devices ...

This book provides diverse articles from around the globe in the field of hybrid materials. Hybrid materials have currently an great impact on nume...

The most important first premise in science is that mass can be neither created nor destroyed. It is also becoming clear that natural laws dictate ...

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

Composite resins are types of synthetic resins which are used in dentistry as restorative material or adhesives. Synthetic resins evolved as restor...

This collection of contributions provides a series of modern pieces of research related to rheology. The selected studies demonstrate how theoretic...