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"3D bioprinting" refers to processes in which an additive manufacturing approach is used to create devices for medical applications. This volume considers exciting applications for 3D bioprinting, including its use in manufacturing artificial tissues, surgical models, and orthopedic implants.

This handbook presents the key properties of silicon carbide (SiC), the power semiconductor for the 21st century. It describes related technologies, reports the rapid developments and achievements in recent years, and discusses the remaining challenging issues in the field.

Fiber reinforced composite materials encompass a wide range of material classes from reinforced glasses, plastics, and rubbers through to various metals and ceramics. This book introduces the topic with a history of composite development, a review of composite applications, the types of fibre used, and their respective individual properties.

Low-dimensional magnetic materials find their wide applications in many areas, including spintronics, memory devices, catalysis, biomedical, sensors, electromagnetic shielding, aerospace, and energy. This book provides a comprehensive discussion on magnetic nanomaterials for emerging applications.

This book provides extensive information on the fundamental concepts of bioelectronics, materials for the developments of bioelectronics such as implantable electronics, self-powered devices, bioelectronic sensors, flexible bioelectronics, and an overview of the trends and gathering of the latest bioelectronic progress.

Offers an introduction to ceramic science. This book introduces the structure and properties of ceramics with a focus on solid state physics and chemistry. It considers bonding in ceramics, their physical structures, and their properties. It deals with factors determined by microstructure and thermal, dielectric, magnetic, and optical properties.

This book is the first to present comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of 2D materials and their nanoelectronic applications. Comprised of chapters authored by world-renowned researchers, the text discusses the use of graphene for high-frequency analog circuits, explores logic and photonic applications of molybdenum disulfide, and addresses

This volume provides an accessible, unified introduction to a variety of methods for modeling inorganic materials as their dimensions approach the nanoscale. It guides readers on choosing the most appropriate models and methods for studying the structure and properties (such as atomic structure, optical absorption and luminescence, and electrica

The understanding and control of transport phenomena in materials processing play an important role in the improvement of conventional processes and in the development of new techniques. This book addresses the understanding of these phenomena in materials processing situations.

This book provides an overview on nanostructured thermoelectric materials and devices, covering fundamental concepts, synthesis techniques, device contacts and stability, and potential applications. The contents focus on thermoelectric devices made from nanomaterials with high thermoelectric efficiency for large-scale use.

This Sourcebook offers a comprehensive survey of the field of silicon nanomaterials, which is transforming microelectronic devices of today and the future. Volume One covers low-dimensional structures, quantum dots, and nanowires.

Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field, from basic properties and mechanisms of action for flame retardants to emerging methods, materials, and industrial applications.

This second edition of Fundamentals of Ceramics adds a section on density functional theory calculations for shedding light on properties. It also adds more on applications, including solid oxide fuel cells as a case study and a major overhaul of the last chapter on optical properties.

This book provides an introduction to the geometrical and topological methods that have become essential tools for soft condensed matter physicists. The emphasis is on providing mathematical tools in clear but precise language, focusing on fundamental concepts using real examples to illustrate for readers in vivid, three-dimensional fashion. The motivation is clearly provided using problems from soft condensed matter, from the packing of colloids to liquid crystals and thermal fluctuations of lipid membranes.

This book provides an introduction to the use of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and its variants for the processing of nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanocomposite coatings, thin and thick films, and composites.

This Sourcebook offers a comprehensive survey of the field of silicon nanomaterials, which is transforming microelectronic devices of today and the future. Volume One covers low-dimensional structures, quantum dots, and nanowires.

This Sourcebook offers a comprehensive survey of the field of silicon nanomaterials, which is transforming microelectronic devices of today and the future. It spans from fundamental properties, growth mechanisms, and processing of nanosilicon to electronic device, energy conversion and storage, biomedical, and environmental applications.

This book provides an overview on nanostructured thermoelectric materials and devices, covering fundamental concepts, synthesis techniques, device contacts and stability, and potential applications. The contents focus on thermoelectric devices made from nanomaterials with high thermoelectric efficiency for large-scale use.

This book offers a dedicated overview of multiferroic materials, which are defined as materials possessing at least two ferroic or antiferroic simultaneously. It summarizes the major advances in the last decade along with the fundamentals underlying various multiferroic systems. It begins with an introduction to foundational studies followed by chapters devoted to phenomena unique to the main classes: type-I, type-II, and composite multiferroic materials. Next, the chapters address theoretical approaches: phenomenological, first principles calculations, and symmetry analysis. Finally, the book turns to practical applications and emerging studies.

This completely revised and expanded new edition covers the full range of techniques now available for the investigation of materials structure and accurate quantitative determination of microstructural features within materials. It continues to provide the best introductory resource for understanding the interrelationship between microstructure and physical, mechanical, and chemical properties, as well as selection and application of techniques for both basic and applied studies. In particular, changes have been made to reflect developments in analysis of nanoscale and biological materials.

Brings together materials science, manufacturing processes, and research and developments of SiGe and strained-Si. This book contains the information on strain engineering in silicon CMOS and strained-Si-based integrated circuit technology and strain-engineered MOSFETs. It presents various aspects of silicon heterostructure materials and devices.

Presents a comprehensive review of topics fundamental to metallurgy and materials science. This book includes chapters on the casting techniques most commonly used in industry. It describes the underlying science fundamental to solidification mechanisms. It considers the microstructure of cast materials and their defects.

Presents an introduction to a wide selection of topics in solid materials. This book covers stress and strain, wave propagation, thermal properties, surface waves, polarons, phonons, point defects, magnetism, and charge density waves.

Covers experimental measurement techniques, simulation of pressure induced phase transformations (PTs), amorphization, and tribology. This book describes a variety of experimental methods and simulation techniques used in the study of PTs. It considers PTs in different materials, namely semiconductors, pseudocrystals and ceramics.