Liquid retaining structures are more vulnerable to corrosion problems and thus have stringent requirements against serviceability limit state of cr...

Nanotechnology is a 'catch-all' description of activities at the level of atoms and molecules that have applications in the real world. A nanometer...

Liquid crystal devices for photonics applications is a "hot topic" of research. This book provides engineers, physicists, and designers with the mo...

Lithography, the fundamental fabrication process of semiconductor devices, has been playing a critical role in micro-nonfabrication technologies an...

Technological innovations, notably over the past decade, facilitate the collection of substantial amounts of personally identifiable data about vir...

The use of low dielectric constant (low-k) interdielectrics in multilevel structure integrated circuits (ICs) can lower line-to-line noise in inter...

In machine tools, the designed systems include many components, such as sensors, actuators, joints and motors. It is required that all these compon...

Machining and forming technologies are two of the most important manufacturing processes, which includes a large group of manufacturing processes i...

Nowadays, machining is one of the most important of manufacturing processes in which a cutting tool or other techniques are used to remove excess m...

This book describes many new macro-projects, both USA and other countries patented concepts, speculative macro-engineering ideas, and other general...

Magnetic nanoparticles have been attracting much interest in the fields of advanced biological and medical applications such as drug delivery, magn...

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are one of the materials of great interest for presenting a unique combination of relevant properties such as high su...

Recent advances in technology involving magnetic materials require development of novel advanced magnetic materials with improved magnetic and magn...

The magnetic pulsed compaction, based on a pulsed magnetic field force action on conductors, is one of the effective methods of nanopowder compacti...

This book presents current research in the study of manufacturing engineering, including the theory and practice of virtual manufacturing; adapting...

Physics and mathematics have always been closely intertwined, with developments in one field frequently inspiring the other. Currently, there are m...

It is obvious that movement is an essential concept of all living organisms. Molecular motility participates in many cellular functions including c...

This book reviews research results in the field of mechanics research. Also discussed herein are the most important areas in the mechanics of funct...

Metal nanoparticles that have already found numerous applications in science and technology may be obtained in different ways. In the opening study...

Nowadays, the use of microcomponents and miniaturised functional products from metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and advanced materials has in...

In this book, the authors discuss the control, manipulation and behavioural applications of microfluidics. Topics include dielectrophoresis based d...

Nanotechnology has continuously evolved sharing with past technologies the same approaches to science policy, therefore, it is problematic to consi...

Nanochemistry is the use of synthetic chemistry to make nanoscale building blocks of desired shape, size, composition and surface structure, charge...

Nanotechnology employs knowledge from the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, health sciences, and engineering. It has immens...