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This book focuses on electrochemical energy conversion and storage and introduces novel materials designed for specific energy applications. It presents the relationship of materials properties, processing, and device performance and sheds light on research, development, and deployment of emerging materials and technologies in this field.

This book offers a comprehensive view of nanomaterials in biotechnology, from fundamentals to applications. It explains the basics of nanomaterial properties, synthesis, biological synthesis, and chemistry and demonstrates how to use nanomaterials to overcome problems in agricultural, environmental, and biomedical applications.

This book presents the concepts and methods involved in the development of various fiber-reinforced composite materials. It offers a comprehensive view of materials, mechanics, processing, design, and applications.

This book discusses advanced materials and technologies used in wastewater treatment. It includes the treatment of waste generated by municipal, agro-industry, and other industries including chemical, biomedical, pharmaceutical, textile, and other sectors.

Biomaterials and Materials for Medicine offers an application-oriented summary of innovations in this rapidly evolving field, offering a view of various directions in biomaterials and medical materials and their advanced uses.

Often associated with artificial hearts, Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD) are blood pumps that can provide circulatory assistance to the left ventricle, the right ventricle, or both biventricular. This book details constructive details of VADs and the biomaterials used in their development and support.

This book disseminates ideas and research trends in biotribology and presents pioneering recent advances impacting the field, focusing on the role of mathematics, chemistry, physics, materials, and mechanical engineering.

Green tribology includes focus on innovative surfaces, lubricants, and materials to reduce friction and wear for environmental conservation and sustainability. This book creates a platform for sharing knowledge emerging in the field of green tribology and focuses on advances and developments in technologies and applications.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the research and development in designing electrode and electrolyte materials for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors. Further, green energy production via the water splitting approach by the hydroelectric cell is also explored.

Biomass for Bioenergy and Biomaterials presents an overview of recent studies developed specifically for lignocellulose-based production of biofuels, biochemicals, and functional materials.

This book covers advances in nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems, along with the aspects needed for a successful and marketable nano-formulation. With advances in synthetic technologies, nanoparticles can be custom made from variety of advanced materials to mimic the bioenvironment and equipped with various targeting and imaging moieties.

The book presents an overview of the use of nanotechnology to mitigate pathogens of concern and is the first book to discuss applications of nanotechnology in the fight against all three major domains of disease-causing pathogens: bacteria, viruses, and parasites.

MXene-Based Photocatalysts: Fabrication and Application introduces readers to the fundamentals, preparation, microstructure characterization, and a variety of applications of MXene-based photocatalysts. It serves as a reference for MXene materials and provides an overview of current literature in advanced MXene materials and applications.

The book offers a comprehensive review of the latest advances in nanomaterials-based technologies for the treatment of emerging contaminants in wastewater. It describes the latest developments in synthesis protocols.

This book features perspectives on advances in textile coloration technologies. It provides a comprehensive and holistic overview, supporting rapid and efficient entry of new researchers into emerging subjects within textile engineering and technology.

This book covers nanomaterials in tissue engineering for regenerative therapies of heart, skin, eye, skeletal muscle, and the nervous system. It emphasizes fundamental design concepts and emerging forms of nanomaterials in soft and hard tissue engineering.

This book explores recent developments in the use of advanced nanomaterials (ANMs) for water treatment and remediation. In-depth reaction mechanisms in water treatment technologies including adsorption, catalysis, and membrane filtration for water purification using ANMs are discussed in detail.

This book provides a complete description of role of heterogeneous catalysis in organic transformations and offers a review of the current and near future technologies and applications.

Monoelemental 2D materials called Xenes have a graphene-like structure, intra-layer covalent bond, and weak van der Waals forces between layers. Materials composed of different groups of elements have different structures and rich properties, making Xenes materials a potential candidate for the next generation of 2D materials.

This authoritative reference work provides a comprehensive review of the recycling of waste polymer and metal composites. It provides readers with the latest advances and covers fundamentals of recycled polymer and metal composites such as preparation, morphology, and physical, mechanical, thermal, and flame-retardancy properties.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has become an important tool for materials research. In this book, the basic principles of functional AFMs and their applications in energy materials such as lithium batteries, electrochemical catalysis, solar cells, and other energy-related materials are addressed.

This book cover different green route approaches used for the preparation of iron-based nanoparticles and their environmental remediation applications. Critical analysis of different routes and the separation techniques of iron-based nanomaterials along with potential risk of iron nanoparticles on human health and atmosphere are also discussed.

Photoelectrochemical processes due to the symbiosis of photochemical and electrochemical processes result in unique reaction pathways and products. This technique Catalyzed by nanomaterials is extensively used to harness sunlight for production of fuels and chemical feedstocks.

Advanced Porous Biomaterials for Drug Delivery Applications probes cutting-edge progress in the application of advanced porous biomaterials in drug delivery fields. These biomaterials offer promise in improving upon the design, cost, and creation of potent novel drug delivery systems. The book focuses on two categories: nature engineered and synthetic advanced porous biomaterials, with a wide range of low-cost porous biomaterial-based systems that have been used for the delivery of diverse drugs through in vitro/in vivo approaches.Details how advanced porous biomaterial-assisted systems improve essential properties in drug delivery applicationsExplains how advanced porous biomaterials systems are being used and explored to improve overall performances of drug delivery systems in mitigating a variety of diseasesEmphasizes major applications in drug delivery such as controlled release, cancer therapy, and targeted delivery, and with focus on oral, topical, and transdermal applicationsFocuses on both naturally available and synthetic low-cost advanced porous biomaterials and their role in enhancing important parameters in drug delivery applicationsAccessible to readers with bio and non-bio backgroundsThis book is an ideal reference for academics, researchers, and industry professionals in the interdisciplinary fields of biomedicine and biomedical engineering, pharmaceuticals, materials science, and chemistry.

This book details 2D nanomaterials and their important applications including recent developments and related scalable technologies. It covers syntheses and structures of various 2D materials, electrical transport in graphene, different properties in detail and related applications.

This book approaches the topic of environmental biotechnology in a clear, integrated, and meaningful way, covering both the fundamentals and biochemical processes involved including technologies. It also provides thorough description of the pollution and pollution control & role of microbes in different ecosystems and deterioration processes.

This book focuses on equivalent circuit modeling, parameter identification, and state estimation in Li-ion battery power applications.