MATERIALS AND ENERGY Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Series Founder, and Senior Advisor:
Leonard C Feldman Rutgers University, USA
Co-Editors-in-Chief:
Richard Haight
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Angus Rockett
Colorado School of Mines, USA
E
nergy and sustainability are keywords driving current science and technology. Concerns about the environment and the supply of fossil fuel have driven researchers to explore technological solutions seeking alternative means of energy supply and storage. New materials and material structures are at the very core of this research endeavor. The search for cleaner, cheaper, smaller and more efficient energy technologies is intimately connected to the discovery and the development of new materials.
This collection focuses on materials-based solutions to the energy problem through a series of case studies illustrating advances in energy-related materials research. The research studies employ creativity, discovery, rationale design and improvement of the physical and chemical properties of materials leading to new paradigms for competitive energy-production. The challenge tests both our fundamental understanding of material and our ability to manipulate and reconfigure materials into practical and useful configurations. Invariably these materials issues arise at the nano-scale!
:: Volume 1 & 2
:: Volume 4
Handbook of Instrumentation and Techniques for Semiconductor Nanostructure Characterization
Materials for Biofuels
(In 2 Volumes)
As we delve more deeply into the physics and chemistry of functional materials and processes, we are inexorably driven to the nanoscale. And nowhere is the development of instrumentation and associated techniques more important to scientific progress than in the area of nanoscience. The dramatic expansion of efforts to peer into nanoscale materials and processes has made it critical to capture and summarize the cuttingedge instrumentation and techniques that have become indispensable for scientific investigation in this arena. This Handbook is a key resource developed for scientists, engineers and advanced graduate students in which eminent scientists present the forefront of instrumentation and techniques for the study of structural, optical and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures. 680pp Nov 2011 978-981-4322-80-5 £427
:: Volume 3 The World Scientific Handbook of Energy The World Scientific Handbook of Energy provides comprehensive, reliable and timely sets of data on energy resources and uses; it gathers in one publication a concise description of a wide variety of energy resources, including data on resource availability worldwide and at different cost levels. The end use of energy in transportation, residential and industrial areas is outlined, and energy storage, conservation and the impact on the environment included. 588pp Feb 2013 978-981-4343-51-0 £186
This invaluable book provides a broad and detailed introduction to the fascinating and hot research subject of transformation of biomass-related materials to biofuels. Biofuel production can be categorized into a variety of novel conversion and refinery development technologies. However, biomass recalcitrance is the biggest challenge blocking the way in biofuel conversion. This book provides an enlightening view of the frontiers in leading pretreatments, downstream enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation technology, corrosion issues in biofuel and merging biofuels technology into a pulp mill to pave the way for future largescale biofuel production. 356pp Mar 2014 978-981-4513-27-2 £112
:: Volume 5 Handbook of Green Materials
Processing Technologies, Properties and Applications (In 4 Volumes) The Handbook of Green Materials serves as reference literature for undergraduates and graduates studying materials science and engineering, composite materials, chemical engineering, bioengineering and materials physics; and for researchers, professional engineers and consultants from polymer or forest industries who encounter biobased nanomaterials, bionanocomposites, self- and direct-assembled nanostructures and green composite materials in their lines of work. 1124pp Jun 2014 978-981-4566-45-2 £1311
:: Volume 6
:: Volume 9
Handbook of Solid State Batteries
Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers
2nd Edition
This comprehensive handbook covers a wide range of topics related to solid-state batteries, including advanced enabling characterization techniques, fundamentals of solid-state systems, novel solid electrolyte systems, interfaces, cell-level studies, and three-dimensional architectures. It is directed at physicists, chemists, materials scientists, electrochemists, electrical engineers, battery technologists, and evaluators of present and future generations of power sources. This handbook serves as a reference text providing state-of-the-art reviews on solid-state battery technologies, as well as providing insights into likely future developments in the field. It is extensively annotated with comprehensive references useful to the student and practitioners in the field. 836pp Aug 2015 978-981-4651-89-9 £195
:: Volume 7 The WSPC Reference on Organic Electronics: Organic Semiconductors (In 2 Volumes)
This 2-volume set provides the reader with a basic understanding of the foundational concepts pertaining to the design, synthesis, and applications of conjugated organic materials used as organic semiconductors, in areas including organic photovoltaic devices, light-emitting diodes, field-effect transistors, spintronics, actuation, bioelectronics, thermoelectrics, and nonlinear optics. 896pp Aug 2016 978-981-4699-22-8 £452
:: Volume 8 Thin Films on Silicon
Electronic and Photonic Applications This volume provides a broad overview of the fundamental materials science of thin films that use silicon as an active substrate or passive template, with an emphasis on opportunities and challenges for practical applications in electronics and photonics. It covers three materials classes on silicon: Semiconductors such as undoped and doped Si and SiGe, SiC, GaN, and III-V arsenides and phosphides; dielectrics including silicon nitride and high-k, low-k, and electro-optically active oxides; and metals, in particular silicide alloys. The impact of film growth and integration on physical, electrical, and optical properties, and ultimately device performance, is highlighted.
- Forthcoming
Structural and Soft Matter Aspects
This book identifies modern topics and current trends of structural and soft matter aspects of conjugated polymers and oligomers. Each chapter recognizes an active research line where structural perspective dominates research and therefore the book covers fundamental aspects of persistent conjugated polymer backbone, water soluble conjugated polyelectrolytes and surfactants, conjugated molecules and biomolecules and DNA and the advanced use of synchrotron radiation and electron microscopy to find out structural details in conjugated molecule films and devices as well as under ambient and extreme conditions. 204pp Feb 2018 978-981-3225-75-6 £86
:: Volume 10
- Forthcoming
World Scientific Reference on Spin in Organics (In 4 Volumes)
This series summarizes the field of Organic Spintronics up to 2017. It contains four volumes dedicated to spin injection, spin transport, spin pumping, organic magnetic field effect, and molecular spintronics. The field of Organic Spintronics has accelerated and matured in the last dozen years with the realization of an organic spin-valve (in 2004) and magneto-resistance and magnetoelectroluminescence in organic optoelectronic devices (2006). 1368pp 978-981-3228-96-2
:: Volume 11
Feb 2018 £1133 – Introductory Price until May 31, 2018 £1309 – Price after May 31, 2018
- Forthcoming
Industrial Applications of Ultrafast Lasers This book describes the application of ultrafast laser science and technology in materials and processing relevant to industry today, including ultrafast laser ablation where fundamental studies have led to the development of the world’s first femtosecond photomask repair tool. 250pp Apr 2018 978-981-4569-00-2 £115
552pp Oct 2016 978-981-4740-47-0 £139
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