The Dean of Invention: Segway Mastermind Probes Sci-Tech’s Future [Video]

Ask a random person on the street to name his or her five favorite scientists, chances are you would hear a litany of familiar names–perhaps Marie Curie, Albert Einstein or Louis Pasteur–all of them instrumental in casting the world in which we live. Much less likely would be a recital of contemporary researchers hard at [...]

Materials for Tomorrow: Theory, Experiments and Modelling

Product DescriptionThis book contains six chapters on central topics in materials science. Each is written by specialists in the field, and gives a state-of-the-art presentation of the subject for graduate students and scientists not necessarily working in that field. Computer simulations of new materials, theory and experimental work are all extensively discussed. As nanomaterials are [...]

Porous Semiconductors: Optical Properties and Applications

Product DescriptionPorous Semiconductors: Optical Properties and Applications provides an examination of porous semiconductor materials. Beginning with a description of the basic electrochemistry of porous semiconductors and the different kinds of porous semiconductor materials that can be fabricated, the book moves on to describe the fabrication processes used in the production of porous semiconductor optical components. [...]

In Science We Trust: Poll Results on How You Feel about Science

Scientists have had a rough year. The leaked “Climategate” e-mails painted researchers as censorious. The mild H1N1 flu out­break led to charges that health officials exaggerated the danger to help Big Pharma sell more drugs. And Harvard University in­vestigators found shocking holes in a star professor’s data. As policy decisions on climate, energy, health and [...]

Hybrid Ceramic Nano-Composites:: A New Route Towards Functional Nanomaterials

Product DescriptionThe outstanding electrical, mechanical and thermal properties of carbon nanotubes have recently spurred considerable activity in the development of multifunctional value-added nanocomposites. Their incorporation into ceramics to design and develop lightweight structural materials combined with unique electrical and thermal transport properties has, however, been a less focused area of research. ?Hybrid Ceramic Nano-Composites’ provides [...]

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