Perovskite Solar Cells
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) represent a groundbreaking advancement in renewable energy, offering a pathway to high-efficiency, sustainable energy solutions. This work provides a comprehensive exploration of perovskite materials, innovative device architectures, and advanced modeling techniques. It delves into the synthesis and characterization of perovskites, interface engineering, stability improvements, and fabrication methods for enhancing performance and addresses the scalability challenges and environmental impacts of PSCs, showcasing their potential to drive sustainability in energy systems. The integration of PSCs into hybrid and tandem solar systems, as well as their applications in large-scale photovoltaics, wearable devices, and consumer electronics, is examined in depth. The work serves as a valuable resource for professionals, graduate students and researchers in materials science, renewable energy, and electrical engineering. It highlights the transformative role of PSCs in reducing carbon emissions and achieving global energy goals, making it indispensable for specialists aiming to pioneer sustainable technologies.
Electrochemical Energy Storage
Starting from physical and electrochemical foundations, this textbook explains working principles of energy storage devices. After a history of galvanic cells, different types of primary, secondary and flow cells as well as fuel cells and supercapacitors are covered. An emphasis lies on the general setup and mechanisms behind those devices to enable easy understanding for students from all technical and natural science disciplines. New: two current batteries types are added and explained to complete and update the content. New: two current batteries types are added and explained to complete and update the content.
A Cup of Coffee and the Ocean
This book introduces various, easily understandable examples of fluids encountered in daily life. It describes the characteristics of these fluids, starting from a cup of coffee, a familiar small-scale fluid, to the vast ocean--one of the largest-scale fluids on Earth. Understanding the principles of fluids and their motion has long been complex and challenging. However, grasping these fundamentals opens doors to deeper exploration and discovery. This book engages middle and high school students, undergraduates, and curious readers in exploring the ocean's vast possibilities. Cartoons and simple language make the concepts more accessible, helping readers not only understand fluids but also gain valuable safety insights related to the ocean.
F-22 & F-35
The F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II are the most advanced fighter aircraft of their generation, embodying decades of technological ambition, political battles, and military innovation. This book tells the intertwined story of America's fifth-generation stealth fighters-from their inception and engineering breakthroughs to their combat deployments and global proliferation. The F-22, with its unmatched speed and maneuverability, became a symbol of pure air dominance but suffered from a short production run and staggering costs. The F-35, conceived as a versatile, multinational fighter, reshaped defense cooperation while navigating criticism over expense, complexity, and sustainment challenges.Through detailed analysis, F-22 & F-35: Stealth, Software, and Sustainment explores the trade-offs of stealth design, the evolution of pilot training, the challenges of maintenance and readiness, and the future of airpower in a networked battlespace. It situates the Raptor and Lightning within the larger arc of global aviation, measuring them against rivals like Russia's Su-57 and China's J-20, while drawing lessons for the sixth-generation Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program.Both a technological chronicle and a reflection on defense policy, this book captures how the F-22 and F-35 transformed modern air combat-celebrated as marvels of engineering, yet also cautionary tales of cost, complexity, and the politics of procurement.
Principles of Fire Engineering Science, Safety and Solutions
Designed for fire engineers, architects, surveyors, and fire safety professionals of all experience levels, Principles of Fire Engineering, Science, Safety and Solutions delivers practical knowledge that matters. With a strong foundation in science and real-world application, this acclaimed and peer-reviewed work empowers readers to enhance building safety, protect lives, and raise industry standards. It's a must-have resource for anyone dedicated to making buildings safer places to live and work.
Mining
Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more sustainable future? Leading industry expert Timothy Biggs argues that modern life is simply unthinkable without mining on a huge scale. From the mobile phone in your pocket to the building you're standing in, the minerals and metals extracted by the mining industry make modern life possible. This fact will become more significant in the context of the environmental challenges we face. Tackling climate change will require technologies ranging from electric cars to solar panels, all of which require immense - and increasing - amounts of copper, iron ore, lithium and other metals. This makes it vital that states and societies respond constructively to the practical needs of the mining industry, and that mining companies address the very real problems associated with their operations. Anyone who wants to understand the stark realities of how our economies will have to change in the context of contemporary environmental problems cannot afford to miss this brilliantly clear account from someone who understands this most vital - and misunderstood - of industries from the inside.
Metallic Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy
Metallic Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy explores the innovative use of metallic nanoparticles in cancer therapy. It investigates the production, functionalisation, and medicinal uses of metallic nanoparticles, including iron oxide, gold, and silver, emphasising their potential for targeted drug administration, imaging, and therapy. It also tackles essential regulatory and safety considerations, connecting research with clinical application. Features: - Covers specifics to the theranostic application of metallic nanoparticles for cancer treatment.- Describes therapeutic strategies of nanoparticles in drug administration routes and targeting mechanisms.- Gives insight about phytochemical and biogenic surface modified metal nanoparticles.- Discusses bioavailability, and toxicity assessment of metallic nanoparticlesThis book is aimed at researchers in metallic nanoparticle, and physicians and regulatory professionals in nanotechnology for precision oncology.
Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia after the Cold War
FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures
Metallic structures such as bridges, offshore platforms, and mining facilities often need to be retrofitted due to ageing and deterioration, increased loading and change of use. Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) has a high strength-to- weight ratio, excellent resistance to corrosion and environmental degradation, and offers increased and cost-effective durability. This new edition of FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures is overhauled throughout, to capture the latest worldwide research for a comprehensive treatment of the behaviour and design of FRP-strengthened metallic structures. It includes a new chapter on enhancement of dynamic performance under large deformation cyclic loading, impact and blast loading, and provides new material on CNT-modified epoxy, shear and torsion, CFRP-strengthening, fatigue design, and strengthening and connections.
Music Psychology--Balance of Relations
Offering a groundbreaking interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores the fundamental mechanisms behind music perception by bridging music psychology with computational neuroscience. It models how adaptation and synchronization shape neural responses to music, revealing insights unattainable through traditional brain localization theories. By applying complex systems theory, it shifts the focus from isolated brain regions to dynamic network interactions, providing a holistic and predictive framework with relevance across a broad spectrum of natural sciences. Ideal for researchers across musicology, psychology, neuroscience, as well as complexity and computational science, it opens new paths for understanding the brain's response to music through scientific precision and cross-disciplinary integration.
Nanoparticles in Fingerprinting
Examines the potential challenges, future directions, and ethical considerations associated with the adoption of nanoparticle-based fingerprinting methods. Fosters a comprehensive knowledge of this cutting-edge topic by reflecting the joint work of specialists from chemistry, forensic science, and nanoscience.
An Improved Method in the Art of Signalling for Military & Scientific Purposes ...
Smart Materials and Applications
Smart materials, often referred to as intelligent or responsive materials, possess unique properties that enable them to respond to external stimuli such as temperature, pressure, light, or magnetic fields. They can change their physical or chemical characteristics in a controlled and predictable manner, making them invaluable for solving complex engineering challenges and driving innovation in science and technology. This new volume offers an understanding the principles and characteristics of smart materials and provides in-depth discussions of their applications in various domains.Beginning with an introduction to smart materials, the volume then proceeds to outline the classification, potential, properties, applications, and fabrication techniques of smart materials. It discusses graphene-based materials for solar cells, machine learning techniques for smart materials, the impact of smart materials on digital twin, deep learning methods in materials science, and nature-based smart materials.Some applications that are highlighted include smart materials in robotics for industrial manufacturing, using smart materials for the adaptation of electric vehicles, smart materials for the development of devices in healthcare, using intelligent materials in 4D printing technology, and more.This volume will be a helpful resource for researchers, engineers, industry professionals, as well as faculty and students interested in understanding the principles and applications of smart materials in fields as diverse as aerospace, healthcare, energy, and consumer electronics.
Advanced Materials Processing and Characterization Technology
Thermal And Physical Changes Accompanying The Heating Of Hardened Carbon Steels
Utility of Experimental Design in Automatic Target Recognition Performance Evaluation
