Materials

An Introduction to the Mechanical Properties of Solid Polymers

Complete with worked examples, mathematical appendices, extensive references and comprehensive index, this volume will prove essential reading for students of materials science, chemistry, physics or engineering studing polymer science. It will also prove a highly useful reference for research workers in the industrial or academic environment.

Electronic Structure & the Properties of Solids: The Physics of the Chemical Bond

This book has no parallel in the literature of theoretical materials science. The information contained in the book allows first principle calculations of properties of important technological materials like perovskite oxides, semiconductors, etc.

Surface Science: An Introduction

This book is a paperback reprint of the author's 1992 original work that encompasses the field of surface science and is written for those with a general background in engineering and the physical sciences, but with no previous exposure to the structure and reactivity of surfaces.

Principles of Ceramics Processing

Gives materials science engineers and students in ceramics engineering an understanding of the scientific principles and technology of ceramics processing as it applies to the development and production of new advanced ceramics. DLC: Ceramics.

The Physics & Chemistry of Materials

A comprehensive introduction to the structure, properties, and applications of materials. This title provides the first unified treatment for the broad subject of materials. Authors Gersten and Smith use a fundamental approach to define the structure and properties of a wide range of solids on the basis of the local chemical bonding and atomic order present in the material. Emphasizing the physical and chemical origins of material properties, the book focuses on the most technologically important materials being utilized and developed by scientists and engineers.

Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses

Contents include history, glass formation, microstructure, composition, density and molar volume, elastic properties and microhardness, viscosity, thermal expansion, heat capacity, thermal conductivity, transition range behavior, dielectric properties, optical properties, and fundamentals of inorganic glassmaking. Deep scientific discussion and heavy mathematics are avoided when possible. Engineering of glass and glass product manufacturing are not covered. Exercises are included.

Fundamentals of Materials Science & Engineering

Extensive, introductory-level, coverage of mechanical properties and failure which is the most important materials considerations for many engineers.

• This book judiciously and extensively makes use of illustrations and photographs. The approximate 500 figures include a large number of photographs that shoe the microstructure of various materials.
• • Current and up-to-date with the latest developments in materials science and engineering.

Carbon Nanotubes & Related Structures

Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale carbon fibers with structures related to those of the fullerenes. Since their discovery in 1991, they have captured the imagination of physicists, chemists and materials scientists alike. This book covers all the most important areas of nanotube research, as well as discussing related structures such as carbon nanoparticles and "inorganic fullerenes." It is the first single-author book on the subject and will be of interest to chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and engineers working on carbon materials and fullerenes in both academia and industry.

Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century

"Made to Measure is a lucid account of the most advanced new materials. While it describes today's technology, this book is really about the future. If you like the down-to-the-last-atom designer 'stuff' described within, you'll love the twenty-first century. The future will be built of such stuff."--Richard E. Smalley, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.