Books by Keyword: X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

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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Description: This supplemental volume presents additional 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 aspects of the processing, fabrication, evaluation and applications of ferrous and non ferrous materials including biomaterials, and smart/intelligent materials, and the contents reflect the latest progress made in these fields.

Description: The 461 peer-reviewed papers presented in this volume are grouped into 14 chapters: Non-Ferrous Metallic Materials, Iron and Steel, Composites, Micro/Nano-Materials, Ceramics, Optical/Electronic/Magnetic Materials, New Functional Materials, Environmentally Friendly Materials, New Energy Materials, Biomaterials, Materials Forming and Machining, Physics and Numerical Simulation of Material Processes, Surface Engineering/Coatings, and Mechanical Behavior and Fracture. The voluminous contents function as a handbook guide to these topics.
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Description: The Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine, known as Bioceramics, provides a valuable forum where scientists and clinicians working in the dental and medical fields can discuss the exciting advances made in basic and applied research, and promote new technologies and applications of ceramics in medicine. These proceedings comprise 174 papers presented at the 23rd Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (ISCM) held on November 6-9th, 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. In Bioceramics 23, the papers have been categorized into 21 of the most topical and essential themes of ceramics in medicine: including characterization, design and processing technologies, tissue engineering, nanotechnology, surface modification, composites, drug delivery and interdisciplinary studies. The work will thus be of great help in taking advantage of the merits of ceramics, and overcoming their weakness in various applications involving polymers and metals.

Description: This thirteenth volume in the series covers the latest results in the field. As well as some 360 metals-related abstracts, the issue includes original papers on all of the major material groups: “Bulk Diffusion of Homovalent Non-Magnetic Atomic Probes of Titanium and Zirconium in Tungsten Single Crystals”, “Comparative Mössbauer Analysis of Superfine Structure of Hadfield Steel Upon Different Kinds of Severe Deformation”, “Assessment of Microstructural Degradation in 2.25Cr-1Mo Steel …”, “Isochronal and Isothermal Annealing of Wrought Aluminum Alloy”, “Application of the Photoacoustic Method for the Determination of the Thermal Properties of Heat-Treated and Annealed Al-Li Alloy“, “Effect of Ageing on Microstructures, Electrical Properties and PALS of Aircraft Al Alloy 2024”, “Preparation of C/Cu Composite Powders by High-Energy Ball-Milling”, “Quantitative Analysis of Fiber Fracture in Powder Injection Molded Metal Composites”, “Wear Mechanisms of Ceramic-Reinforced Metal-Matrix Composite …”, “Development and Characterization of Alumina-Silica Sand Nanoparticle Composites”, “Characterization and Properties of Copper-Silica Sand Nanoparticle Composites”, “Diffusion Processes Affecting the Performance of Heterogeneous Catalysts”, “Analytical Solutions for Moving Elliptical Paraboloid Heat Source in Semi-Infinite Plate”, “Solution for Modeling 3D Moving Heat Sources in a Semi-Infinite Medium …”, “Probing the Phase Transition in Nanocrystalline TiO2 Powders …”, “BSCCO 2212 Defective Tellurium Ions on Bi-Site”, “Self-Diffusion in Nano Zinc Sulphide”, “SIMS Study of 30keV H+ Ion-Implanted n-GaAs“, “Optical Studies of Physically Deposited Nano-Ag2Te Thin Films”

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The 104 peer-reviewed papers included here were selected from those presented at the International Conference on Nanomaterials Synthesis and Characterization (INSC2011) held at the Mines Wellness Hotel, Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia from the 4th to 5th July 2011. The volume mainly covers the synthesis of nanomaterials and related researches and will bring the reader fully up to date with these topics.

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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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These 19 peer-reviewed papers cover emerging topics in Advanced Materials (e.g.: polymer composites, nanocomposites, ceramics, thin-film coatings and shape-memory alloys) and thus offer an unique insight into current progress.

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This volume is divided into 3 chapters. The first, focused on Materials and Elaboration Techniques, describes various types of material such as composites, polymers, semiconductors, metals, ceramics, bio-materials, inorganic alloys, textile, porous, crystalline, amorphous and hybrids elaborated by various means such as vapor-phase, liquid-phase, plasma, ion-based and laser-assisted techniques, soft chemistry, self- assembly, bonding, sintering, and including bulk, surface, interface, thin-film and nano-materials. The second chapter, on Characterization Techniques and Properties, covers both physical (optical, structural, electrical, mechanical, magnetic, damage, aging…) and chemical (surface and bulk composition, imaging, impurity, reactivity, catalysis, aging, oxidation, corrosion) aspects. The last chapter, Applications, focuses on subjects such as: (i) environment and energy (renewable energy, storage and energy conversion, transport), (ii) health, biomedical and life science, (iii) electronic devices and systems (micro-nano electronics, power electronics, photonics and optoelectronics, systems, storage and heat management) and (iv) cultural heritage (e.g. archeology).

Description: The peer-reviewed papers comprising this book treat the topics of: composites, micro-/nano-materials, metal-alloy materials, steel and iron, polymer materials, optical/electronic/magnetic materials, new energy materials, environmentally-friendly materials, biomaterials, thin films, structural materials, new functional materials, earthquake-resistant structures and materials, smart/intelligent materials/intelligent systems, hydrogen and fuel-cell science, engineering and technology and other related topics. The work offers near-encyclopedic guide to these fields.