Books

Green Corrosion Chemistry and Engineering

  With its unique focus on the problems for societies and economies associated with corrosion and their solution, this is an up-to-date overview of the progress in corrosion chemistry and engineering. A valuable resource written by international experts actively...

Ceramics Science and Technology

  Ceramics have progressed from ancient bulk materials in pottery, construction, and decoration to a multitude of modern applications requiring thermal and chemical stability, durability and resistance to wear in environments and conditions under which other...

Ceramic Materials for Energy Applications

  This book is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society's 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 23-28, 2011. This issue includes papers presented in the Ceramics for Electric...

Industrial Ion Sources

  Introduction 1. Gridded ion sources 2. Gridless industrial broad beam ion sources 3. Main operational parameters 4. Regime of non-self-sustained discharge and its importance 5. Ion source and vacuum chamber 6. Oscillations and instabilities in ion sources 7....

Hierarchically Structured Porous Materials

  This first book devoted to this hot field of science covers materials with bimodal, trimodal and multimodal pore size, with an emphasis on the successful design, synthesis and characterization of all kinds of hierarchically porous materials using different...

Scanning Probe Microscopy of Soft Matter

  A must-have for newcomers and established researchers in the field. With its pedagogical and self-contained approach, it covers the fundamentals of scanning probe microscopy, explaining how to measure the important properties and including applications in...