Key Engineering Materials

Description: The volume contains papers presented at the Conference Nanophysics and Nanomaterials (St Petersburg, Russia, on 27-28 November 2019). This collection discusses advances in the area of structural materials, nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, metallurgical technologies, coatings and surface engineering, functional materials, minerals and industrial waste processing, materials for biomedical application.

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This volume contains collected papers that were presented at the 10th International Conference on Advanced Materials Research (10th ICAMR-2020, Okinawa, Japan). These articles reflect the latest achievements in materials science and technologies of materials processing for the various branches of modern industry.

Description: With the progress of the nanotechnology and production methods, composite materials and polymeric materials are becoming lighter, cheaper, more durable, and more versatile. At present, great progress has been made in design, preparation, and characterization of composite materials and polymeric materials, making them smarter and versatile. By creating new properties using suitable fillers and matrix, the functional composites and polymeric materials can meet the most difficult standards of users, especially in high-tech industries. Advanced composites and polymeric materials reinforced by high-performance carbon fibers and nanofillers are popular in the automotive and aerospace industries thanks to their significant advantages, such as high specific strength to weight ratio and noncorrosion properties. In addition to the improvement of the mechanical performance, composite materials and polymeric materials today are designed to provide new functions dealing with antibacterial, self-cleaning, self-healing, super-hard, solar reflective for desired end-used applications. On the other hand, composite materials and polymeric materials can contribute to reduce environmental issues by providing renewable energy technologies in conjunction with multifunctional, lightweight energy storage systems with high performance and noncorrosive properties. They are also used to prepare a new generation of batteries and directly contribute to H2 production or CO2 reduction in fuels and chemicals.This Special Issue aims to collect articles reporting on recent developments dealing with preparative methods, design, properties, structure, characterization methods, as well as promising applications of multifunctional composites and polymeric materials. It covers potential applications in various areas, such as anticorrosion, photocatalyst, absorbers, superhydrophobic, self-cleaning, antifouling/antibacterial, renewable energy, energy storage systems, construction, and electronics.

Description: The annual International Conference on Renewable Energy (ICORE 2019) was held in Malang, East Java, Indonesia on August 9 – 10, 2019. This conference is hosted by Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia in collaboration with the Centre of Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy (CAMRY). This volume contains papers which were presented at the annual International Conference on Renewable Energy (ICORE 2019, Indonesia, August 9 – 10, 2019) and reflect the results of research and engineering design in the area of modern materials and materials processing technologies for the various branches of modern industrial production.

Description: We are very pleased to introduce the special volume containing the papers presented at the 60th International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University (RTU) Section of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry - MSAC 2019, held in Riga, Latvia, 24th of October, 2019. The conference MSAC 2019 provided a discussion forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry in the area of materials science, chemistry, and physics.

Description: This volume contains selected peer-reviewed papers from 2nd Annual Symposium on Solid Waste Refinery (2nd ANSWER, 13-14 November 2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia). The collected papers cover the important area of human activity - waste recycling and biomass processing in the context of the sustainable development paradigm.

Description: This volume contains selected, peer-reviewed papers from the 6th edition of the International Stone Congress, the Global Stone Congress 2018 (GSC): Connecting Minds in the World of Stone that was held- 25-28 April 2018, Ilheus, Bahia, Brazil. Presented articles reflect the latest results and achievements in the area of technologies of mining, processing, and application of the natural stone and marble.

Description: This volume contains papers that were presented at the 5th International Conference on Composite Materials and Material Engineering (ICCMME 2020, Seoul, South Korea, January 13-16, 2020) and reflects the last achievements in the field of composite materials, nano- and functional materials, processing technologies and building materials.

Description: This volume contains papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Engineering and Innovative Materials (ICEIM 19, Tokyo, Japan, September 6-8, 2019) and covers the wide range of scientific and engineering research in the area of modern materials, technologies of materials processing and chemical production.

Description: This volume is the joint conference proceedings of the International Conference on Functional Materials (ICFM 2019), held in Sendai, Japan during Sep.4-6, 2019. The presented papers cover wide-variety topics from modern materials science and materials processing technologies, focuses on the important categories, including environmental engineering, electronic materials, and energy materials.