Materials Chemistry

This book provides a comprehensive overview of silica-based mesoporous materials with special attention given to their use in drug delivery systems, sophisticated stimuli-responsive materials, and bone tissue engineering. The text provides a comprehensive overview of the basic aspects of the propert..

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of materials science approaches to characterization of biominerals and biomimetic model systems. It covers state-of-the-art in the characterization of atomic and molecular structure, including the latest in diffraction, scattering, and spectroscopy, in ..

Carbon Black examines developments in the processing and applications of carbon black, including the use of new analytical tools such as scanning tunneling microscopy, Fourier transform spectroscopy and inverse gas chromatography. It discusses mechanism of carbon black formation based on advances su..

This new research book explores and discusses a range of topics on the physical and mechanical properties of chemical engineering materials. Chapters from prominent researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, and engineering science present new research on composite materials, blends, carbon na..

This book provides a thorough examination of the rapidly developing field of carbon-based nanomaterials. It covers important up-to-date research on carbon nanomaterials, including descriptions of their variants and how they can be chemically functionalized. It also gives an overview of current advan..

This book looks at the synthesis of polyaniline by different methods, under different conditions, for various applications, and presents studies of its properties by a wide range of the modern physic-chemical methods. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of experimental results from the point ..

Cotton Fiber Chemistry and Technology focuses on providing the most up-to-date information on cotton fiber chemistry, physics, and properties. Drawn from the Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition, it explains fiber biosynthesis, structure, chemical composition and reactions, and physical proper..

Creep and Creep Rupture of Metals is devoted to the fundamental description of the phenomenon of creep which occurs widely in high-temperature deformation of metals. The book features experimental and theoretical results obtained by various scientists and demonstrates analytical methods to achieve l..

This new book focuses on eco-friendly nanohybrid. It clearly summarizes the fundamentals and established techniques of synthesis and processing of eco-friendly nanohybrid materials to provide a systematic and coherent picture of synthesis and the processing of nanomaterials. The research on nanotech..

Porous materials have attracted considerable attention in the last decades because of the wide variety of scientific and technological applications, such as catalysis, shape- and size-selective absorption and adsorption, gas storage, and electrode materials. This book focuses on generalized theoreti..

Electrospinning of nanofibers has emerged as a specialized processing technique for the formation of sub-micron fibers, with high specific surface areas. Electrospinning of Nanofibers in Textiles presents important new research in the dynamic and emerging field of electrospinning and covers all aspe..

This book covers many important aspects of applied research and evaluation methods in chemical engineering and materials science that are important in chemical technology and in the design of chemical and polymeric products. This book gives readers a deeper understanding of physical and chemical phe..