The sun is a powerful source of energy, yet we fail to use it efficiently. This book explains the significance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices.
This book focuses on controlling interfacial strength, a key problem in adhesion science. It examines adhesive joints of fibers and modified epoxy resins, analyzing the dependence of adhesive strength on modifier concentration and the mechanisms controlling strength synergism.
Using real-world cases, this book illustrates how to handle volatile financial time series data. Learn to apply statistical, machine learning, and deep learning techniques with R and Python to build robust predictive models and construct profitable investment portfolios.
Digital transformation has changed marketing, but its impact on consumer behaviour still requires exploration. This book sheds light on the challenges and solutions for companies, investigating customer experience, influencer marketing, and trust for the online consumer.
Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials
This book focuses on novel applications of nanostructured nonlinear optical materials, including optical limiting, Q-switching, mode-locking, and laser-nanoplasma physics. It is useful for physicists, material scientists, and engineers interested in laser technology.
Providing an up-to-date discussion of advanced ternary MAX ceramics, this book introduces students and engineers to key research topics. It explores Ti2AlCxNy MAX ceramics, from their synthesis and properties to their industrial application and reinforcement in Mg composites.
This book covers the theory of Raman scattering by molecules and crystals, including molecular vibrations and their symmetry. It details Raman spectroscopic techniques and is ideal for students and scientists researching chemical, mineralogical, and biological systems.
This book describes the physics and modeling of the near-Earth medium and its disturbances from seismic and solar sources. It explores the coupling between the Earth’s solid and gaseous shells, providing a basis for natural disaster prediction. For scientists and students.
An expert guide to integrating sustainable green chemistry into your work. This book provides a comprehensive overview of green techniques and is an essential resource for academic and industrial researchers in chemistry, environmental science, and pharmaceutical science.
The Mysteries of Mystery Snails
This book is a comprehensive review of Chinese and Japanese mystery snails around the globe. It discusses fascinating facts on their dispersal, biology, ecology, impacts, and control, drawing from more than 900 peer-reviewed articles. For anyone interested in invasive molluscs.
Membrane technology is a sustainable, low-energy solution for water treatment, but its implementation is hampered by inadequate process modeling. This book focuses on using models as a mathematical background to design, analyze, and optimize these crucial processes.
Ion Channels in Biomembranes and Their Mimics
This volume provides a unified treatment of the structure and function of ion channels, clarifying how electrophysiological and electrochemical tools are essential to understanding ion transport. It bridges the gap between biology and electrochemistry for all life scientists.
This book sets forth the theory of optimal manoeuvring near a circular orbit for transfer and rendezvous problems. It presents simple analytical methods for real spacecraft and details effective methods for manoeuvre assessment to more accurately propagate collision hazards.
This illustrated guide explores moiré patterns in 1D, 2D, 3D, and time. Learn to identify, distinguish, evaluate, and control the moiré effect, and to use it in modern technologies.
A Political History of Post-WWII Architecture in Europe
Has architecture lost the connection to public and private life? This book explores architecture from a political perspective, examining how it has mirrored political developments in Europe since the Second World War to reveal the meanings generated from this relationship.
The Fundamental Principles of Physics
This book provides a precise idea of what an atom or molecule is using quantum theory. To overcome student comprehension difficulties, it insists on the importance of underlying physical principles, such as particle-wave duality, indeterminism, and presence probability.
This book assesses the risks of debris flows in Georgia, calculating the damage they cause. It presents innovative, patented structures to regulate them, designed using theoretical, laboratory, and field studies to ensure reliability. For scientists, engineers, and students.
Earth Science and Deuterium Nuclear Reactions
Many of Earth’s greatest mysteries—its internal heat, atmospheric composition, and the creation of elements—remain unsolved. This book shows these phenomena could be explained by nuclear fusion in our planet’s core, offering solutions to the problems now threatening our world.
This book discusses mathematical techniques for stellar kinematics, from classical methods like least squares to modern ones not in other texts, such as total least squares and semi-definite programming. For astronomers, students, engineers, and mathematicians.
This book presents insights into manganese oxides, materials with important technological applications in magnetic refrigeration and sensors. With elegant and didactic mathematical proofs, it will interest both researchers and the general reader interested in the subject.