With a history that reaches back some 90 years, the Hume-Rothery rules were developed to provide guiding principles in the search for new alloys. Ultimately, the rules bridged metallurgy, crystallog……続きを見る
Surface tension provides a thermodynamic avenue for analyzing systems in equilibrium and formulating phenomenological explanations for the behavior of constituent molecules in the surface region. Wh……続きを見る
In the context of an aging society and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring a healthy life expectancy has become a pressing social concern. Amidst the pandemic's impact on medical……続きを見る
This book focuses on surface activity of electron emission (EE). Prior to protective painting, a steel surface is usually grit blasted or sandblasted to remove scale and contaminants and to roughen ……続きを見る
A comprehensive, accessible introduction to modern all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries.
All-solid-state thin-film lithium-ion batteries present a special and especially important version of lithiu……続きを見る
This English translation of a well-known Japanese book covers interfacial physicochemistry in materials science, especially for iron- and steelmaking processes. Interfacial Physical Chemistry of Hig……続きを見る
This textbook covers chemical thermodynamics in materials science from basic to advanced level, especially for iron and steel making processes.
To improve a process by applying knowledge of thermody……続きを見る
This book presents the "helical wormlike chain" model – a general model for both flexible and semiflexible polymer chains. It explains how statistical-mechanical, hydrodynamic, and dynamic theories ……続きを見る
X-ray diffraction crystallography for powder samples is a well-established and widely used method. It is applied to materials characterization to reveal the atomic scale structure of various substan……続きを見る