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Material Science eBooks

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  • Stuff Matters

    The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

    by Prof. Mark Miodownik ...
    * * * Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * *FROM THE TEA-CUP TO THE JET ENGINE, STUFF MATTERS IS A UNIQUE, INSPIRING EXPLORATION OF HUMAN CREATIVITY.'Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives' Guardian'I stayed up all night reading this book' Oliver Sacks____________Everything is made of something.The ever... ... Read more

    R183,99

  • Material World

    A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

    by Ed Conway ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*An Economist, Financial Times, Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the British Academy Book Prize, Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize'Compelling' TIM MARSHALL'Lively, rich and exciting' PETER FRANKOPA... ... Read more

    R239,19

  • How the World Really Works

    A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES__________We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. ... Read more

    R202,39

  • Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014

    by Mark Frauenfelder ...
    It’s 3D Printing: The Next Generation! The technology’s improving, prices are dropping,new models are hitting the market, and 3D printers are appearing on desktops, workbenches, lab shelves, and kitchen tables all over the world. Not only are we seeing better, faster, and cheaper 3D printers, we’re also seeing new printing materials, easier-to-use design software, powerful scanning technology, and ... Read more

    R133,27

  • Biochar As A Renewable-based Material: With Applications In Agriculture, The Environment And Energy

    by Joan J Manya, Gabriel Gasco ...
    Biochar and its implementation as a renewable-based material is one of the topics on which the research community has focused the greatest energy in the last twenty years. This book provides readers with a scientific and technological overview of biochar, including new technologies for biochar production, new environmental and agronomic applications (e.g. biochar as growing media component or ... Read more

    R940,46

  • Synthesis And Applications Of Optically Active Nanomaterials

    by Feng Bai, Hongyou Fan ...
    Series Book 14 - World Scientific Series In Nanoscience And Nanotechnology
    In this book, the synthesis and applications of recent nanomaterials are discussed and reviewed in detail. The scope of the book covers from nanocrystals and their self-assembly, synthesis and applications of optically active porphyrin particles, and synthesis and applications of carbon nanodots. Depending on the categories of the materials, detailed driving forces to self-assembly of the cluster ... Read more

    R940,46

  • Iii-nitride Materials, Devices And Nano-structures

    by Zhe Chuan Feng ...
    Group III-Nitrides semiconductor materials, including GaN, InN, AlN, InGaN, AlGaN and AlInGaN, i.e. (Al, In, Ga)N, are excellent semiconductors, covering the spectral range from deep ultraviolet (DUV) to UV, visible and infrared, with unique properties very suitable for modern electronic and optoelectronic applications. Remarkable breakthroughs have been achieved in recent years for research and ... Read more

    R1 585,38

  • Thin Films Technology

    Practical Manual for the Laboratory Works

    by Alexander Axelevitch ...
    This book deals with key aspects of modelling, deposition and characterization of thin solid films. The main attention is paid to the physical vacuum deposition methods and particularly to the magnetron sputtering. Measurement methods for optical and electrical properties of thin films, that are described in the book, are based on the equipment situated in the thin-films laboratory of the Holon ... Read more

    R941,61

  • Organic-inorganic Composite Membranes For Molecular Separation

    by Wanqin Jin, Gongping Liu, Nanping Xu ...
    Series Book 5 - Series On Chemical Engineering
    This book gives comprehensive information on the design, preparation and application of organic-inorganic composite membranes that are used for molecular separation. Various membrane types with different materials are highlighted, including polymer/ceramic composite membranes, mixed matrix membranes, metal-organic frameworks membranes and graphene-based membranes. Physical and chemical properties, ... Read more

    R1 585,38

  • Fundamentals Of Materials Modelling For Metals Processing Technologies: Theories And Applications

    by Jianguo Lin ...
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the unique theory developed over years of research on materials and process modelling and its application in metal forming technologies. It starts with the introduction of fundamental theories on the mechanics of materials, computational mechanics and the formulation of unified constitutive equations. Particular attention is paid to elastic ... Read more

    R725,52

  • Drug Delivery Systems

    by Pieter Stroeve, Morteza Mahmoudi ...
    Series Book 1 - From Biomaterials Towards Medical Devices
    With the alarming increase in cancer diagnoses and genetic illnesses, traditional drug agents and their delivery media need to be re-evaluated to address a quickly evolving field. With newer smart materials for the controlled release of macromolecules, peptides, genetic material, etc. further complications arise, such as material performance, synthesis, functionalization and targeting, biological ... Read more

    R1 585,38

  • Inkjet Printing Technology

    Author: Kung Linliu, Ph. D.

    by Kung Linliu ...
    Author: Kung Linliu, Ph. D.There are three chapters in this book, from the basic inkjet technology and its application, extending to ink-jet technology related materials and their components, and even the labeling and other applications, the relevant sections of the title and related contents are as follows:The first chapter mainly introduces the development and evolution of inkjet printing ... Read more

    R159,73

  • Machinery, Materials Science And Energy Engineering (Icmmsee 2015) - Proceedings Of The 3rd International Conference

    by Guangde Zhang ...
    With the rapid development of machinery, materials science and energy engineering technology in China, new theories and application results constantly appear. Higher and newer requirements in these fields are sought by business enterprises and members of the engineering profession.This conference was held to further promote the exchange and cooperation among local researchers, to upgrade the ... Read more

    R1 800,31

  • Energetics Science and Technology

    An integrated approach

    Edited by Adam S. Cumming ...
    Series series IOP ebooks
    This text demonstrates how the science of energetic materials technology can and should link various technologies in the physical sciences to provide an integrated approach. It includes physics, chemistry, materials science, theory and modelling, and will help the discipline to adapt to future needs and research. The text provides a coherent and detailed study of what is now possible and indeed ... Read more

    R1 716,36

  • Heat Conduction

    by Yaman Yener, Sadik Kakac ...
    Nearly thirty years since its first publication, the highly anticipated fourth edition of Heat Conduction upholds its reputation as an instrumental textbook and reference for graduate students and practicing engineers in mechanical engineering and thermal sciences. Written to suit a one-semester graduate course, the text begins with fundamental concepts, introducing the governing equation of heat ... Read more

    R3 427,52

  • 4D Visualization of Matter

    Recent Collected Works of Ahmed H Zewail, Nobel Laureate

    by Ahmed H Zewail ...
    Ever since the beginning of mankind's efforts to pursue scientific inquiry into the laws of nature, visualization of the very distant and the very small has been paramount. The examples are numerous. A century ago, the atom appeared mysterious, a “raisin or plum pie of no structure,” until it was visualized on the appropriate length and time scales. Similarly, with telescopic observations, a ... Read more

    R506,68

  • Handbook Of Porphyrin Science: With Applications To Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology And Medicine - Volume 45: Phthalocyanine Synthesis And Computational Design Of Functional Tetrapyrroles

    by Karl M Kadish, Kevin M Smith, Roger Guilard ...
    Series Book 10 - Handbook Of Porphyrin Science
    Volume 45 in the highly successful series Handbook of Porphyrin Science presents three very informative chapters of significant topical interest to researchers in the broad field of porphyrin science. The first chapter (Chapter 215) systematically describes in great detail the many synthetic methods utilized for the preparation of both metal-free and metallo-phthalocyanines. In the second chapter ... Read more

    R2 015,25

  • Practical Blacksmithing Vol. II

    A Collection of Articles Contributed at Different Times by Skilled Workmen to the Columns of "The Blacksmith and Wheelwright" and Covering Nearly the Whole Range of Blacksmithing from the Simplest Job of Work to Some of the Most Complex Forgings

    by Milton Thomas Richardson ...
    Roll up your sleeves, blaze your flame, and ready your hammer! For this book will take you on a metal working, weapon forging, and tool wielding journey in the basis of blacksmithing.Whether you're a mechanical engineer who wants to have an edge over their colleagues in manufacturing courses, an old-tools collector, a classic blacksmith who takes pride in their craftsmanship, or a curious reader ... Read more

    R90,61

  • Nanomaterials For Photocatalytic Chemistry

    by Yugang Sun ...
    Series Book 12 - World Scientific Series In Nanoscience And Nanotechnology
    This book concentrates on the emerging area of the utilization of (solar) photon energy for catalyzing useful chemical reactions (also called artificial photosynthesis) including water splitting, CO2 reduction, selective epoxidation, selective alcohol oxidation, coupling reactions, etc. The chapters in this book cover topics ranging from materials design at nanometer scale to nanomaterials ... Read more

    R1 370,44

  • Solid State Ionics: Ionics For Sustainable World - Proceedings Of The 13th Asian Conference

    by Jun-ichi Kawamura, B V R Chowdari, J Mizusaki, K Amezawa ...
    Solid state ionics is a multidisciplinary scientific and industrial field dealing with ionic transport phenomena in solids. In a couple of decades, solid state ionics has become one of the largest disciplines closely related to energy technologies, such as batteries, fuel cells, and so on.So far, a large number of scientists and engineers in Asia as well as in Europe and US are engaged in the ... Read more

    R1 021,07

  • Application Of Materials Science And Environmental Materials - Proceedings Of The 3rd International Conference (Amsem2015)

    by Qingzhou Xu ...
    This proceedings consists of selected papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Application of Materials Science and Environmental Materials (AMSEM2015), which was successfully held on Phuket Island, Thailand, between October 01-03, 2015.Building on the success of AMSEM2013 and AMSEM2014, AMSEM2015 continues to provide a forum for academic scientists, leading engineers, industry ... Read more

    R833,05

  • Mechanics And Mechanical Engineering - Proceedings Of The 2015 International Conference (Mme2015)

    by Maosen Cao ...
    This proceedings consists of 162 selected papers presented at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering (MME2015), which was successfully held in Chengdu, China between December 25-27, 2015.MME2015 is one of the key international conferences in the fields of mechanics, mechanical engineering. It offers a great opportunity to bring together researchers and ... Read more

    R1 585,38

  • Device Physics of Narrow Gap Semiconductors

    by Junhao Chu, Arden Sher ...
    Series series Microdevices
    Narrow gap semiconductors obey the general rules of semiconductor science, but often exhibit extreme features of these rules because of the same properties that produce their narrow gaps. Consequently these materials provide sensitive tests of theory, and the opportunity for the design of innovative devices. Narrow gap semiconductors are the most important materials for the preparation of advanced ... Read more

    R2 089,31

  • Functional Nucleic Acids Detection in Food Safety

    Theories and Applications

    by Wentao Xu ...
    This book focuses on the development and applications of functional nucleic acid-based detection methods in the context of food safety. Offering a comprehensive overview of nucleic acids detection method in food safety for professionals and members of the public interested in this area, the book is divided into two parts. Part I addresses the basic principle of nucleic acid detection, while Part ... Read more

    R2 461,91