The use of spontaneous self-assembly, as a lithographic tool and as an external field-free means to construct well-ordered and intriguing patterns, has received much attention due to its ease of ...

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, P. R. China College of Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832003, P. R ...

College of Safety and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, 579 Qianwangang Rd, Huangdao District, Qingdao 266590, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of Mining ...

This volume brings together the collected contributions on the theme of robust mechanism design and robust implementation that Dirk Bergemann and Stephen Morris have been working on for the past ...

The second edition provides an update of the recent developments in classical and computational solid mechanics. The structure of the book is also updated to include five new areas: Fundamental ...

The first edition of this classic book has become the authoritative reference for physicists desiring to master the finer points of statistical data analysis. This second edition contains all the ...

School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, 22 Shao-shan-nan Road, Changsha, Hunan 410075, P. R. China National Engineering Laboratory of High-Speed Railway Construction Technology, 22 Shao ...

Professor Subrata K. Mitra, Emeritus Heidelberg University, Germany; Adjunct Professor Dublin City University, Ireland; Former Director of the Institute for South Asian Studies, National University of ...

Demands for high-performance micro/nano manipulations, from the manufacture of microelectronic and photonic devices, biomedical apparatus, nanoscience and nanotechnology, renewable energy, environment ...

This is the first-ever textbook on the fundamentals of nucleation, crystal growth and epitaxy. It has been written from a unified point of view and is thus a non-eclectic presentation of this ...

This volume attempts to fill the gap between standard introductions to solid state physics, and textbooks which give a sophisticated treatment of strongly correlated systems. Starting with the basics ...

Fluorine chemistry is an expanding area of research that is attracting international interest, due to the impact of fluorine in drug discovery and in clinical and molecular imaging (e.g. PET, MRI).