Materials Science Forum

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These are the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials - THERMEC’2011 - which was held during the 1-5 August 2011 in Quebec City, Canada. The conference brought together researchers and engineers/technologists working on various aspects of the processing, fabrication, structure/property evaluation and applications of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials; including biomaterials and smart/intelligent materials. The contents are thus and excellent and up-to-date guide to these subjects.

Description: Physical and numerical simulations make it possible for materials science to go from experience-based to science-based, and from qualitative to quantitative understanding. Physical simulations, which effectively reveal the underlying principles of a material’s structure and property evolution, save significant amounts of time and money. Numerical simulations meanwhile permit descriptions and forms of material processes which are impossible to achieve experimentally. Both types of simulation are naturally gaining acceptance worldwide, and will become a prominent approach used in materials research in the 21st century. Young researchers will therefore benefit greatly from studying this volume.

Description: The development of specific textures in materials occurs either naturally or by synthesis and processing using various methods. The presence of textures in materials manifests itself in the form of anisotropic properties; the understanding of which is indispensable to precise engineering design. In addition to conventional applications in structural materials, texture control has come to be practised in the form of functional materials. This collection is an edited version of papers presented at the sixteenth international conference on the textures of materials (ICOTOM 16), held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India on December 12-17th, 2011.
The proceedings are broadly divided into six sections; the first being a collection of keynote lectures, followed by papers classified under Deformation, Deformation and Annealing, Techniques, Annealing and Materials.
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This special issue on rapid casting solutions comprises original research papers, review papers, technical papers and notes. It is devoted to the development of important topics in rapid casting technology, and has been published as a special issue in order to highlight selected papers submitted to important international conferences and symposia, plus invited papers from prominent researchers. Rapid prototyping has been around for some twenty years, and is widely used in diverse areas: from the building of aesthetic and functional prototypes to the production of tools and moulds for technological prototypes. Among the various rapid prototyping techniques, three-dimensional printing, polyjet printing, silicon moulding, etc., are used commercially as hybrid rapid casting solutions. This issue provides an overview of the rapid prototyping process for ceramic shells that can be constructed and then joined (as in the conventional process) to give a cavity for the pouring of metal to produce cost-effective prototypes for casting applications. This volume will be welcomed by academics, researchers, industrialists and university students specialising in rapid casting or rapid prototyping, production engineers and others.

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The highly successful AMN conference series is the flagship of the New Zealand MacDiarmid Institute; a virtual centre of research excellence named after New Zealand’s 3rd Nobel Laureate, Professor Alan MacDiarmid. The conference offers a broad interdisciplinary overview of advanced materials and nanotechnology, and provides an exciting forum within which to discuss new and exciting advances in the field. The 55 peer-reviewed papers cover topics that are related to nanotechnology, advanced materials, nanoelectronics, superconductors, spintronics, nanoparticles, microfluidics, advanced sensors, photovoltaics and nanobiology. The result is an excellent and timely guide to these specialized topics.

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This special-topic volume includes two review articles written by eminent scientists in India, plus original articles by researchers working in various Indian research and academic institutions. The articles describe the results of analyses carried out on important materials that are useful to human society, and many characterization techniques have been reported for the analysis of various types of material. It is expected that this work will be very useful to scientists, researchers, academics, scholars and students working at various levels in academic, research and industrial institutions.

Description: This book contains selected papers from the 14th International Manufacturing Conference, IMCC2011, held in China. The papers disclose the latest developments in the field of materials manufacturing technology: from fundamentals to new technologies and applications. In particular, these papers cover the topics of advanced manufacturing technology and equipment, materials-forming science and technology, digital manufacturing systems and management, modern design theory and methodology, and MEMS and Ultra-precision machining.
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Energy/environmental issues are of increasing importance these days, and improvement of the efficiency of energy conversion inevitably requires materials to be exposed to high temperatures and high pressures in aggressive environments. The present 80 peer-reviewed papers discuss the future prospects for solving materials issues involving elevated temperatures.

Description: This special collection provided an outlet for researchers to present the newest advances, scientific findings and technological developments in the field of eco-materials processing and design. The object to survey the current state-of-the-art and to foresee future trends in the field of eco-materials processing and design for energy, environment and related materials. Many fruitful and exciting research achievements were presented, both as fundamental topics and as applications such as solar sustainable energy, fuel-cells, photochemistry, porous materials, biomass, and bio-inspired technologies for improving microstructures and bulk properties.
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Description: These are the proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on the Frontier of Nanoscience and Technology (ICFNST 2011), held in Kunming, China, on September 28-29th, 2011. The aim was to provide a platform from which researchers, engineers and academics, as well as industrial professionals, from all over the world could present their research results and development activities in the fields of Nanoscience and Technology. The work thus presents an eminently up-to-date survey of the subject.
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