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Modern Mechanobiology Convergence of Biomechanics Development and Genomics

Modern Mechanobiology Convergence of Biomechanics Development and Genomics

Modern mechanobiology converges both engineering and medicine to address personalized medicine. This book is built on the previously well-received edition Hemodynamics and Mechanobiology of Endothelium. The central theme is omic approaches to mechanosignal transduction underlying tissue development injury and repair. A cadre of investigators has contributed to the chapters enriching the interface between mechanobiology and precision medicine for personalized diagnosis and intervention. The book begins with the fundamental basis of vascular disease in response to hemodynamic shear stress and then details cardiovascular development and regeneration valvular and cardiac morphogenesis mechanosensitive microRNA and histone unfolding computational fluid dynamics and light-sheet imaging. This edition represents a paradigm shift from traditional biomechanics and signal transduction to transgenic models including novel zebrafish and chick embryos and targets a wider readership from academia to industry and government agencies in the field of mechanobiology. | Modern Mechanobiology Convergence of Biomechanics Development and Genomics

GBP 116.00
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Agricultural Biocatalysis Biological and Chemical Applications

Agricultural Biocatalysis Biological and Chemical Applications

Agricultural biocatalysis is of immense scientific interest nowadays owing to its increasing importance in the efforts for more sustainable agriculture while optimizing environmental impacts. Plant compatibility is essential for developing eco-friendly and sustainable microbial products. Therefore our search for novel technologies ought to be in the foreground for which a thorough understanding of biochemical processes applications of agricultural enzymes traits and viruses should get the highest priority. Volumes 8 to 10 in this series compile the recent research on agricultural biocatalysis by interdisciplinary teams from international institutes for chemistry biochemistry biotechnology and materials and chemical engineering who have been investigating agricultural-biocatalytic topics related to biochemical conversions or bioremediation and modern biological and chemical applications exemplified by the use of selected and highly innovative agricultural enzymes traits and viruses. The editors are prominent researchers in agrochemistry and theoretical biophysical chemistry and these three volumes are useful references for the students and researchers in the fields of agrochemistry biochemistry biology biophysical chemistry natural product chemistry materials and drug design. Volume 10 covers the research on biological control plant uptake and plant growth aspects plant stress including genome editing in plants and selected agrochemical classes as well as the importance of modern chiral agrochemicals. | Agricultural Biocatalysis Biological and Chemical Applications

GBP 270.00
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From Atoms to Higgs Bosons Voyages in Quasi-Spacetime

From Atoms to Higgs Bosons Voyages in Quasi-Spacetime

The announcement in 2012 that the Higgs boson had been discovered was understood as a watershed moment for the Standard Model of particle physics. It was deemed a triumphant event in the reductionist quest that had begun centuries ago with the ancient Greek natural philosophers. Physicists basked in the satisfaction of explaining to the world that the ultimate cause of mass in our universe had been unveiled at CERN Switzerland. The Standard Model of particle physics is now understood by many to have arrived at a satisfactory description of entities and interactions on the smallest physical scales: elementary quarks leptons and intermediary gauge bosons residing within a four-dimensional spacetime continuum. Throughout the historical journey of reductionist physics mathematics has played an increasingly dominant role. Indeed abstract mathematics has now become indispensable in guiding our discovery of the physical world. Elementary particles are endowed with abstract existence in accordance with their appearance in complicated equations. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle originally intended to estimate practical measurement uncertainties now bequeaths a numerical fuzziness to the structure of reality. Particle physicists have borrowed effective mathematical tools originally invented and employed by condensed matter physicists to approximate the complex structures and dynamics of solids and liquids and bestowed on them the authority to define basic physical reality. The discovery of the Higgs boson was a result of these kinds of strategies used by particle physicists to take the latest steps on the reductionist quest. This book offers a constructive critique of the modern orthodoxy into which all aspiring young physicists are now trained that the ever-evolving mathematical models of modern physics are leading us toward a truer understanding of the real physical world. The authors propose that among modern physicists physical realism has been largely replaced—in actual practice—by quasirealism a problematic philosophical approach that interprets the statements of abstract effective mathematical models as providing direct information about reality. History may judge that physics in the twentieth century despite its seeming successes involved a profound deviation from the historical reductionist voyage to fathom the mysteries of the physical universe. | From Atoms to Higgs Bosons Voyages in Quasi-Spacetime

GBP 76.99
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Designing Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion and Post-Lithium Batteries

Designing Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion and Post-Lithium Batteries

Every electrochemical source of electric current is composed of two electrodes with an electrolyte in between. Since storage capacity depends predominantly on the composition and design of the electrodes most research and development efforts have been focused on them. Considerably less attention has been paid to the electrolyte a battery’s basic component. This book fills this gap and shines more light on the role of electrolytes in modern batteries. Today limitations in lithium-ion batteries result from non-optimal properties of commercial electrolytes as well as scientific and engineering challenges related to novel electrolytes for improved lithium-ion as well as future post-lithium batteries. | Designing Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion and Post-Lithium Batteries

GBP 116.00
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Phosphors Synthesis and Applications

Phosphors Synthesis and Applications

Rare earth–doped luminescent materials play an integral role in modern life because of their tremendous applications ranging from scintillators color displays fluorescent lamps and intensifying screens to dosimetry of ionizing radiations. Written and edited by prominent luminescence researchers this book details cutting-edge research on luminescence materials and is illustrated throughout with excellent figures and references. It will appeal to anyone involved in luminescence research and its applications especially advanced undergraduate- graduate- and postgraduate-level students of spectroscopy solid state physics luminescence material synthesis and optical properties and researchers working on the synthesis of optical materials the characterization of luminescence materials solid state lighting radiation dosimetry luminescence and phosphor applications. | Phosphors Synthesis and Applications

GBP 116.00
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Fundamentals of the Optics of Materials Tutorial and Problem Solving

Fundamentals of the Optics of Materials Tutorial and Problem Solving

This textbook showcases the rapidly developing field of materials optics. It is aimed at a broad audience as the readers require only university entry level knowledge of physics chemistry and optics. It overviews the basics of optical engineering and the typical and widely used applications of materials optics with the first general chapters corresponding to the standard university courses targeting bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics. The next few chapters present the modern developments in materials optics such as nano-plasmonics nano-photonics and optical properties of nano-sized materials intended for readers familiar with the basic elements of quantum mechanics. Some more specialized chapters address recent developments in fields such as optics of solid surfaces plasma optics optics of composites alloys and metamaterials; optics of anisotropic materials; optics of organic and biological materials; and relativistic effects in optics. The appendices present a more advanced description of selected topics with important reference materials subject index and extended list of publications as well as numerous examples and problems to better orient readers interested in gaining further knowledge of the subject. | Fundamentals of the Optics of Materials Tutorial and Problem Solving

GBP 116.00
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Optics of Nanomaterials

Optics of Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials are mainly categorized into three groups: fundamental building blocks dispersions or composites of building blocks in randomly ordered matrices and spatially resolved ordered nanostructures. Today nanomaterials that offer some unique optical properties may find application as pure materials or may be integrated into larger structures. This book presents examples of both pure and composite materials that include organic–inorganic nanocomposites and quantum dots embedded into different matrices for various applications in modern nanotechnology. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated with the most recent developments in the field. The newly added introductory paragraphs will help students and young researchers in better understanding the chapters. The new sections on frequently used physical constants and units conversions as well as the updated bibliography add to the book’s utility. This textbook is unique compared with its counterparts in the market in respect of its scope as it contains introductory sections to the important topics on nanomaterial optics. This feature broadens its readership from engineers and researchers working in the field of materials science and optics to lecturers graduate students and beginners who want to deepen their knowledge in nanomaterial optics. | Optics of Nanomaterials

GBP 139.00
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Functional Materials in Biomedical Applications

Functional Materials in Biomedical Applications

This book presents modern trends that regard the utilization of advanced functional materials for the development of innovative pharmaceuticals. Such materials include classes of lipids polymers proteins and peptides as well as inorganic materials which find application in nanomedicinal products drug delivery systems medical devices biotechnological products and several other technologies. These products are promising for the therapy and diagnosis of diseases. Special attention is given to the available analytical techniques utilized for the evaluation of materials their interactions and their properties as well as the functionality of the final pharmaceutical forms. In addition scale-up opportunities and limitations of nanomaterials and the current and emerging challenges in their clinical translation with reference to relative regulatory aspects are discussed. The book covers the latest advances in functional materials for biomedical applications and will serve as a guide for the industry and aid future research. It will be useful for upper undergraduate students and graduate students young researchers (in the fields of pharmaceutics and materials sciences) scientists who want to enrich their knowledge on advanced drug delivery nanocarriers and their applications researchers in the Big Pharma and readers who want to learn more about the role of nanoscience in the design and development of nanomedicines. | Functional Materials in Biomedical Applications

GBP 154.00
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Environmental Ethical and Economical Issues of Nanotechnology

Environmental Ethical and Economical Issues of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is moving out of its comfort zone of scientific discourse. As new products go to market and national and international organizations roll out public-engagement programs on nanotechnology to discuss environmental and health issues various sectors of the public are beginning to discuss what the controversy is all about. Nongovernmental organizations have long since reacted; however now the social sciences have begun to study the cultural phenomenon of nanotechnology thus extending discourses and opening out nanotechnology to whole new social dimensions. These dimensions and their newly constructed imaginings around nanotechnology intersect with the ecology health governance economy and illusory futures. There is always a need for more than just an ELSI (ethical legal and social implications) sideshow within nanotechnology. The collective public imaginings of nanotechnology include tangles of science and science fiction local enterprises and global transformation all looking forward toward a sustainable future while looking back on the past debates on science and nature. This book highlights the environmental health and economical concerns of nanotechnology and discusses its future research directions. It provides academia and industry a high-tech start-up that will revolutionize modern practices. With little and outdated literature available on the topic this timely book will be helpful for the readers as it thoroughly covers the environmental ethical and economical issues of nanotechnology.

GBP 76.99
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Strongly Correlated Electrons in Two Dimensions

Strongly Correlated Electrons in Two Dimensions

The properties of strongly correlated electrons confined in two dimensions are a forefront area of modern condensed matter physics. In the past two or three decades strongly correlated electron systems have garnered a great deal of scientific interest due to their unique and often unpredictable behavior. Two of many examples are the metallic state and the metal–insulator transition discovered in 2D semiconductors: phenomena that cannot occur in noninteracting systems. Tremendous efforts have been made in both theory and experiment to create an adequate understanding of the situation; however a consensus has still not been reached. Strongly Correlated Electrons in Two Dimensions compiles and details cutting-edge research in experimental and theoretical physics of strongly correlated electron systems by leading scientists in the field. The book covers recent theoretical work exploring the quantum criticality of Mott and Wigner–Mott transitions experiments on the metal–insulator transition and related phenomena in clean and dilute systems the effect of spin and isospin degrees of freedom on low-temperature transport in two dimensions electron transport near the 2D Mott transition experimentally observed temperature and magnetic field dependencies of resistivity in silicon-based systems with different levels of disorder and microscopic theory of the interacting electrons in two dimensions. Edited by Sergey Kravchenko a prominent experimentalist this book will appeal to advanced graduate-level students and researchers specializing in condensed matter physics nanophysics and low-temperature physics especially those involved in the science of strong correlations 2D semiconductors and conductor–insulator transitions.

GBP 85.99
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Natural Food Preservatives

Natural Food Preservatives

Safety quality and prolonged shelf life of food products are the three most important aspects of the food industry. To ensure a satisfactory scale both traditional and modern preservatives are widely used. However as eating habits have upgraded with a focus on what is popularly termed a healthy diet there has been a growing demand for food with natural additives over synthetic ingredients. As a result there have been major developments in the field of food preservation which are presented in this book. The book provides detailed information on the range of natural food preservatives with their applications in different product sectors. It delves into microbiological food spoilage and discusses natural food preservatives as well as natural antioxidants and antimicrobials as food ingredients. It reviews prevalent preservation technologies the chemistry behind them and new nonconventional preservatives. It focuses on innovative technologies including biological antimicrobial systems such as LABs or their metabolites bacteriophages and bacteriophage-encoded enzymes. It provides knowledge about preservatives such as bacteriocins and ε-polylysine as well as their usage in achieving the right balance of safety quality and shelf-life for specific products. The book is a collection of the research and experiences of an international team of experts and is a valuable tool for all those who are related to the advancements and production of safe and healthy foods. It is a significant reference book for professionals who teach food microbiology courses conduct research and epidemiologic investigations analyze food samples and craft food safety policies.

GBP 116.00
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