Author : Vasilis Fthenakis
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
Author : Vasilis Fthenakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781107408623
Life-cycle analyses (LCA), vital in detailing the range of a technology's effects upon the environment and human health, afford us solid information for judiciously selecting those that provide the least damage. This book bring us a major step forward in generating well-balanced, accurate assessments of the environmental impacts of new energy conversion and storage technologies. It presents information on the life cycle of photovoltaics. Since this technology is rapidly evolving, periodic updates are essential for ensuring well-balanced comparisons with other technologies. It also focuses on nanomaterial-based technologies for energy storage and includes comprehensive overviews on the use of nanostructured materials in hydrogen storage, environmental issues related to such storage, and descriptions of new nanoscale systems for energy storage and offers interesting new energy storage technologies. The book also features LCA methodologies applicable to energy-systems analysis, detailing ways of quantifying land use and suggesting applicable metrics.
Author : Martin P Ansell
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1782424776
Recent progress in enhancing and refining the performance and properties of wood composites by chemical and thermal modification and the application of smart multi-functional coatings have made them a particular area of interest for researchers. Wood Composites comprehensively reviews the whole field of wood composites, with particular focus on their materials, applications and engineering and scientific advances, including solutions inspired biomimetrically by the structure of wood and wood composites. Part One covers the materials used for wood composites and examines wood microstructure, and wood processing and adhesives for wood composites. Part Two explores the many applications of wood composites, for example plywood, fibreboard, chipboard, glulam, cross-laminated timber, I-beams and wood-polymer composites. The final part investigates advances in wood composites and looks at the preservation and modification of wood composites, environmental impacts and legislative obligations, nano-coatings and plasma treatment, biomimetic composite materials, the integration of wood composites with other materials and carbonized and mineralized wood composites. - Comprehensively reviews the entire field of wood composites in a single volume - Examines recent progress in enhancing and refining the performance and properties of wood composites by chemical and thermal modification and the application of smart multi-functional coatings - Explores the range of wood composites, including both new and traditional products
Author : Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3038979686
This book is a special collection of articles dedicated to the preparation and characterization of nanoporous materials, such as zeolitic-type materials, mesoporous silica (SBA-15, MCM-41, and KIT-6), mesoporous metallic oxides, metal–organic framework structures (MOFs), and pillared clays, and their applications in adsorption, catalysis, and separation processes. This book presents a global vision of researchers from international universities, research centers, and industries working with nanoporous materials and shares the latest results on the synthesis and characterization of such materials, which have given rise to the special interest in their applications in basic and industrial processes.
Author : Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811021821
This book comprehensively covers the topic of sustainability in the clothing and fashion sector. Sustainability is applied under different industrial sectors and there has to be a distinction in every industrial sector when it comes to sustainability in its application. Though the definition is common for sustainability, sustainability in the clothing sector has its unique objectives, principles, and limitations, which this book highlights.
Author : Ottmar Edenhofer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139505599
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy sources – bioenergy, solar, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and wind energy – as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It considers the environmental and social consequences associated with the deployment of these technologies and presents strategies to overcome technical as well as non-technical obstacles to their application and diffusion. SRREN brings a broad spectrum of technology-specific experts together with scientists studying energy systems as a whole. Prepared following strict IPCC procedures, it presents an impartial assessment of the current state of knowledge: it is policy relevant but not policy prescriptive. SRREN is an invaluable assessment of the potential role of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change for policymakers, the private sector and academic researchers.
Author : Christoph E. Nebel
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Diamond thin films
ISBN :
Author : Timothy P. Hogan
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2008-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN :
The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners. The focus of this book is in the fields of thermoelectrics, thermionics and thermoacoustics for thermal-to-electric energy conversion.
Author : Materials Research Society. Meeting
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners. This book is a snapshot of the state of the art in nanoindentation and nanotribology, and highlights emerging topics including the development of new methods for characterizing nanoscale mechanical and tribological properties.
Author : Arnold Burger
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
"This symposium will provide a venue for the presentation of the latest results and discussion of radiation detection materials from both experimental and theoretical standpoints. As advances are made in this area of materials, additional experimental and theoretical approaches are used to both guide the growth of materials and to characterize the materials that have a wide array of applications for detecting different types of radiation. The types of detector materials for semiconductors and scintillators include a variety of molecular compounds such as lanthanum halides, zinc oxide, lead iodide, cadmium telluride, mercuric iodide, thallium bromide, as well as others, such as cadmium zinc telluride." "An additional class of scintillators includes those based on organic compounds and glasses. Ideally, desired materials used for radiation detection have attributes such as appropriate-range bandgaps, high atomic numbers of the central element, high densities, performance at room temperature, and strong mechanical properties, and are low cost in terms of their production. There are significant gaps in the knowledge related to these materials that are very important in making radiation detector materials that are higher quality in terms of their reproducible purity, homogeneity, and mechanical integrity. The topics that are the focal point of this symposium address these issues so that much better detectors may be made in the future."--BOOK JACKET.
