Books by Keyword: Glasses

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 26th Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (BIOCERAMICS 26), November 6-8, 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
The 76 papers are grouped as follows:
I. Biostable Ceramics and Tough Ceramics;
II. Glasses and Glass-ceramics;
III. Calcium Phosphates;
IV. Cements;
V. Composites and Hybrid Materials;
VI. Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Ceramics; VII. Coatings, Surface Engineering and Interfaces;
VIII. Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics and Composites;
IX. Scaffolds;
X. Ceramics for Drug Delivery;
XI. Cell-Material Interactions;
XII. Preclinical Models: Animal Studies;
XIII. Clinical Applications

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Science, Social Science, Engineering and Energy Conference (I-SEEC 2013), December 18-20, 2013, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
The 123 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Applied Physics,
Chapter 2: Materials Science and Materials Physics,
Chapter 3: Optical Science and Technology

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 9th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids Mass Transfer - Heat Transfer - Microstructure & Properties - Nanodiffusion and Nanostructured Materials (DSL-2013), June 24 – 28, 2013, Madrid, Spain. The goal of the conference was to provide a unique opportunity to exchange information, to present the latest results as well as to review the relevant issues on contemporary diffusion research.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4^th International Conference on Solid State Science and Technology, December 18-20, 2013, Melaka, Malaysia.
The 105 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Thin Film and Nanostructure,
Chapter 2: Superconductors,
Chapter 3: Biomaterials Based Molecular Electronics,
Chapter 4: Polymers and Composites,
Chapter 5: Optical and Dielectric Materials,
Chapter 6: Magnetic Materials,
Chapter 7: Ceramics and Glasses,
Chapter 8: Solid State Theory, Simulations and Computation,
Chapter 9: Carbon and Related Materials,
Chapter 10: Semiconductors and Devices,
Chapter 11: Metals and Alloys

Description: This treatment of “Time-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Solids” begins with a phenomenological description of the transport of some unspecified entity. It is assumed that the transport is caused by mechanical stresses or temperature fields. This hypothesis is based upon just a few well-established methods such as, for instance, the Zener theory of diffusion and the Inglis equation for stress enhancementof. Using these assumptions, it is possible to deduce formulae for a theoretically based description of several phenomena without referring to any specific process or entity.

Description: Halides continue to be an increasingly important industrial engineering resource: as electrolytes, and in heat-treatment baths on the one hand, and as the basis of exotic devices in the fields of optics, electronics, etc., on the other. At both of these extremes, the gross or detailed movements of ions, respectively, are important factors. There may also be an important geological need for a knowledge of halide diffusion data, in an era when the migration – or not - of various waste materials, including nuclear, through natural seams of halide-based minerals is of great concern.

Description: The rapid expansion of glasses as the materials of choice for optical, electronic, and other applications has led to a radical expansion in the use of the 75 or so elements not extensively employed in traditional glasses, i.e. the "rare elements in glasses" indicated by the title of this volume. Although some of these elements are not "rare" in the sense of availability, they are indeed rarely used historically in inorganic glasses.

Description: The heterogeneity of a solid must be taken into account if the property under consideration is determined not only by the atomic short-range order but also by the spatial extent of regions with equal short-range order, the shape of these regions, the interface area between different regions, the correlation of shape and size of adjacent regions, the topological arrangement, etc. Such phenomena appear in most materials, e.g. in polycrystalline metals and alloys, powders, ceramics, porous materials, glasses and random composites.

Description: Rare earth oxides, rare earth compounds and rare earth elements find a wide range of applications in metals, glasses, ceramics and electronics. Demands for high-purity separated rare earth oxides and metals with a purity of up to 99.999% is growing. The present conference was designed to discuss the needs of the materials science community and to present advances in the field.

Description: The book covers all aspects of the micromorphology of as-grown, etched, abraded and lapped, and fractured surfaces of single and polycrystalline solids, and glasses of as diverse substances as insulators, semiconductors, metals and polymers.