Solid State Phenomena

Description: The 2018 Asia Conference on Material and Manufacturing Technology (ACMMT 2018), was held in Beijing, China, September 14-16, 2018. The presented collection by results of ACMMT 2018 informs readers about the last achievements in the sphere of materials science and processes of metalworking. We hope you will find this collection informative and useful in your professional activity.

Description: This is a collection of articles from the 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Metallurgy (ICFMM 2018) which has been held in Wuhan, China during November 10-12, 2018. The main topics of ICFMM 2018 were dedicated to issues related to nanomaterials, functional materials, metallurgical and metalworking technologies, chemical technologies in environmental engineering, bio- and building materials. We hope that the presented collection will be useful for many specialists from the area of modern materials science and materials processing technologies.

Description: This volume provides an overview of thin film materials and coatings, design and manufacture for a wide variety of application areas. In particular, the topics of interest include fabrication of thin films by electrospinning, a thin film for solar energy conversion, optical and electrical investigation of thin films and special coatings, applications of PVD/ALD coatings, low friction thin layers. We hope that the presented research results and recommendations will be interesting and useful for engineers and researchers from various areas of engineering.

Description: The 25th International Conference Concrete Days 2018 was held in Prague, Czech Republic from November 21st – 22nd, 2018. The published papers present recent research results in the area of modern concretes and concrete structures, discuss modeling and design of concrete structures, bridges, and buildings, properties of concretes as well as significant structural projects and realizations.

Description: This volume contains peer-reviewed papers prepared as the event of the National Contact Point “Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy” under the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Selected papers at this volume cover a wide range of topics regarding physical and chemical geotechnologies also as solid body mechanics and provide the recent knowledge and achievement. Presented works together with scientific substantiation have an analytical justification and practical proof of received results. We believe the volume will be essential reading for those in the related areas and will provide an inspiration for future studies and achievement.

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This volume was collected on the results of the 6th International Conference on Solid State Science and Technology (ICSSST2017, 13 – 16 November 2017, Penang, Malaysia) and the main objective of this volume is to present the latest findings of researches on solid-state science and technology in all aspects of physical and chemical properties, preparation and characterization techniques, optical properties; macro-, micro- and nanostructures. We hope this book will be useful for many engineers and researchers in the area of materials science.

Description: This volume of the journal contains papers presented at the 21st International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements, SCTE 2018 which was held in the Technische Universität Wien, Austria, from March 25 to March 29, 2018. The conference was dedicated to fundamental and applied research regarding structure, crystal chemistry, chemical bonding, as well as with magnetic, thermodynamic, phononic and electronic properties of different classes of intermetallic compounds. Hydrides, borides, carbides, silicides and homologues, pnictides, chalcogenides, oxides and halides (especially those of low oxidation states exhibiting metal or semimetal properties) were in the focus of the conference also.

Description: This volume contains papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Materials Science (ICMS2018), which was also the 2nd Joint Chinese-Mongolian-Russian International Conference on Functional Materials, held at Erenhot, China, June 20-22, 2018 and focuses on the research of the structures, characteristics, properties and applications of new functional materials.

Description: This collection contains papers that were presented at the 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Technology (ICMST 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 11-13, 2018). We hope this collection will be useful and interesting for engineers and researchers in the area of materials science and materials processing technologies.

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This volume presents the recent research progress in the synthesis, characterization techniques, properties and interactions of nanostructured materials for multifunctional applications. The opportunity to apply singular or hybrid nanomaterials proves to be a constant challenge in order to optimize its use, achieving simultaneous results for its application in different branches of research. It is focused on the study of structures and their effect on the properties of solids, using different experimental techniques and practical applications of nanostructured materials in the context of the latest achievements in the area of research of solid-state phenomena.