Materials Books

Linear and Nonlinear Optics
by Kitsakorn Locharoenrat
Review
The Fabric of Civilization
by Virginia Postrel
Review
Organic Electronics
by Stephen R. Forrest
Review
Advanced Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
by Michael El-Batanouny
Review
The Age of Wood
by Roland Ennos
Review
Sticking Together: The Science of Adhesion
by Professor Steven Abbott
Review
Clean: The New Science of Skin
by James Hamblin
Review
Power to the People
by Audrey Kurth Cronin
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Review
Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Incredible Microbes
by Marilyn Roossinck
Review
Nano Comes to Life
by Sonia Contera
Review
Sex Robots and Vegan Meat
by Jenny Kleeman
Review
Optical Effects in Solids
by David B. Tanner
Review
Graphene Photonics
by I-Tan Lin, Jia-Ming Liu
Review
More From Less
by Andrew McAfee
Review
The Remarkable Life of the Skin
by Monty Lyman
Review
Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History
by Steve Haake
Review
Nanocrystals in Non-Volatile Memory
by Writam Banerjee
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Material Value: More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing of Everything from Cell Phones to Cleaning Products
by Julia L. F. Goldstein
Review
Preparation, Characterization, Properties and Application of Nanofluid
by I. M. Mahbubul
Review
Tellurite Glass Smart Materials
by Raouf El-Mallawany
Review
Skeleton Keys
by Brian Switek
Review
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
by Paul Steinhardt
Review
Flexible Glass: Enabling Thin, Lightweight, and Flexible Electronics (Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Coatings Technology)
by Sean M. Garner
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Modeling Nanowire and Double-Gate Junctionless Field-Effect Transistors
by Farzan Jazaeri and Jean-Michel Sallese
Review
An Introduction to Quantum Transport in Semiconductors
by David K. Ferry
Review
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
by Mimi Swartz
Review
The Graphene Revolution: The weird science of the ultra-thin (Hot Science)
by Brian Clegg
Review
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
Thermoplasmonics: Heating Metal Nanoparticles Using Light
by Guillaume Baffou
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
Hybrid Phonons in Nanostructures (Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology)
by Brian K. Ridley
Review
2D Materials: Properties and Devices
by Phaedon Avouris, Tony F. Heinz, and Tony Low
Review
The 3D Printing Handbook: Technologies, design and applications
by Ben Redwood, Filemon Schöffer, and Brian Garret
Review
3D Printing in Medicine
by Deepak M Kalaskar
Review
Transmaterial Next: A Catalog of Materials That Will Redefine Our Future
by Blaine Brownell
Review
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Review
Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Second Edition
by Larry R. Dalton, Sam-Shajing Sun
Review
The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science
by Cyrus C. M. Mody
Review
Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides (Springer Series in Materials Science)
by Alexander V. Kolobov and Junji Tominaga
Review
Science Calling: Climate, Environment, Energy: (there is hope)
by Vladimir Panjkovic
Review
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Material Series)
by Ashutosh Tiwari, Lokman Uzun
Review
Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson and Adrienne Kolb
Review
Light Sources, Second Edition: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications
by Spiros Kitsinelis
Review
Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization: Third Edition
by Dieter K. Schroder
Review
Photonics and Electronics with Germanium
by Kazumi Wada and Lionel C. Kimerling
Review
Polarons
by David Emin
Review
Light Localisation and Lasing: Random and Quasi-random Photonic Structures
by Mher Ghulinyan and Lorenzo Pavesi
Review
OLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
by Daniel J. Gaspar and Evgueni Polikarpov
Review
Conductors, Semiconductors, Superconductors: An Introduction to Solid State Physics (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by Rudolf P. Huebener
Review
Applied Minds – How Engineers Think
by Guru Madhavan
Review
Moore’s Law
by Arnold Thackray
Review
Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials
by Detlev Ristau
Review
Birefringent Thin Films And Polarizing Elements (2nd Edition)
by Martin W. McCall, Ian J Hodgkinson, and Qihong Wu
Review
X-Ray Diffraction: Modern Experimental Techniques
by Oliver H. Seeck and Bridget Murphy
Review
Rust: The Longest War
by Jonathan Waldman
Review
Handbook of Polymer Crystallization
by Ewa Piorkowska and Gregory C. Rutledge
Review
Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
by William L. Murphy, Bing Xu, Sarah Heilshorn, Roanne Jones, Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, Rein Ulijn, Bernice Wright, Che J. Connon, and Ian W. Hamley
Review
Phasing in Crystallography: A Modern Perspective
by Carmelo Giacovazzo
Review
Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies
by Christoph Brabec, Ullrich Scherf, Vladimir Dyakonov
Review
Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal
by Peter Forbes and Tom Grimsey
Review
Photochemistry and Photophysics: Concepts, Research, Applications
by Vincenzo Balzani, Paola Ceroni, and Alberto Juris
Review
Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
by Keith Veronese
Review
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch
by Lewis Dartnell
Review
The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon’s Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged
by Cathy Cobb, Monty Fetterolf, and Harold Goldwhite
Review
Big Ratchet
by Ruth DeFries
Review
Waves in Gradient Metamaterials
by Alexander B. Shvartsburg and Alexei A. Maradudin
Review
Wavelength Division Multiplexing: A Practical Engineering Guide
by Klaus Grobe and Michael Eiselt
Review
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
by Vaclav Smil
Review
Modelling Drying Processes: A Reaction Engineering Approach
by Xiao Dong Chen and Aditya Putranto
Review
Chemical Structure and Reactivity: An Integrated Approach
by James Keeler and Peter Wothers
Review
Smaller, Faster, Lighter, Denser, Cheaper
by Robert Bryce
Review
Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
by Zoraida Aguilar
Review
Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering: Fabrication and Applications
by A. K. Gaharwar, S. Sant, M. J. Hancock, and S. A. Hacking
Review
Nanotechnology in Eco-Efficient Construction: Materials, Processes and Applications
by Fernando Pacheco Torgal, M. V. Diamanti, A. Nazari, and C. Goran-Granqvist
Review
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
Review
Introduction to Computational Materials Science: Fundamentals to Applications
by Richard LeSar
Review
Optical Thin Films and Coatings: From Materials to Applications
by Angela Piegari and Francois Flory
Review
Handbook of Molecular Plasmonics
by Fabio Della Sala and Stefania D'Agostino
Review
Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature
by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick, and Drew Endy
Review
Interatomic Forces in Condensed Matter
by Mike Finnis
Review
Quantum Control of Multi-Wave Mixing
by Feng Wen, Min Xiao, Yanpeng Zhang
Review
The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050
by Rafael Cayuela Valencia
Review
Water Droplets to Nanotechnology: A Journey Through Self-Assembly
by Plinio Innocenzi, Luca Malfatti, and Paolo Falcaro
Review
Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
by Andreas Lendlein and Adam Sisson
Review
Fundamental Principles of Polymeric Materials
by Christopher S. Brazel and Stephen L. Rosen
Review
Spin Glasses and Complexity
by Daniel L. Stein and Charles M. Newman
Review
Handbook of Silicon Photonics
by Laurent Vivien and Lorenzo Pavesi
Review
Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Photonic Applications
by Shinji Yamashita, Yahachi Saito, and Jong Hyun Choi
Review
The Physics of Nanoelectronics: Transport and Fluctuation Phenomena at Low Temperatures
by Tero T. Heikkilä
Review
Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History
by Eric Chaline
Review
Handbook of Plasticizers
by George Wypych
Introduction to Metal-Nanoparticle Plasmonics
by Matthew Pelton and Garnett W. Bryant
Review
Advanced Materials for Joint Implants
by Giuseppe Pezzotti
Review
Symmetry Relationships between Crystal Structures: Applications of Crystallographic Group Theory in Crystal Chemistry
by Ulrich Müller
Review
Structure of Materials: An Introduction to Crystallography, Diffraction and Symmetry
by Marc De Graef and Michael E. McHenry
Review
Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science
by Linda S. Hirst
Review
Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics: A Practical Approach to High Power and Single Mode Devices
by Peter W. Epperlein
Review
Computer Modeling for Injection Molding: Simulation, Optimization, and Control
by Huamin Zhou
Review
Biomass-Based Biocomposites
by Vijay Kumar Thakur
Review
Cambridge Illustrated Handbook of Optoelectronics and Photonics
by Safa Kasap, Harry Ruda, and Yann Boucher
Review
Nanofabrication Handbook
by Stefano Cabrini and Satoshi Kawata
Review
Diamondoid Molecules: With Applications in Biomedicine, Materials Science, Nanotechnology & Petroleum Science
by G. Ali Mansoori, Patricia Lopes Barros de Araujo, and Elmo Silvano de Araujo
Review
High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for Energy Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy)
by Ziad Melhem
The Biobased Economy: Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era
by Hans Langeveld, Johan Sanders, and Marieke Meeusen
Transmission Electron Microscopy in Micro-Nanoelectronics (ISTE)
by Alain Claverie
Review
Biomimetic Biomaterials: Structure and Applications
by Andrew J. Ruys
Review
Organic Light-emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Materials, Devices and Applications
by Alastair Buckley
Review
Terahertz Physics
by R. A. Lewis
Review
Organic Optoelectronics
by Wenping Hu, Fenglian Bai, Xiong Gong, Xiaowei Zhan, Hongbing Fu, and Thomas Bjornholm
Review
Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon
by John Browne
Review
Gold Nanoparticles for Physics, Biology and Chemistry
by Catherine Louis and Olivier Pluchery
Review
Handbook of Practical X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis
by Burkhard Beckhoff, Birgit Kanngießer, Norbert Langhoff, Reiner Wedell, and Helmut Wolff
Geometry of Crystallographic Groups
by Andrzej Szczepański
Review
Joining and Assembly of Medical Materials and Devices
by Y (Norman) Zhou and Mark D. Brevan
Review
Peptide Synthesis and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology)
by Knud J. Jensen, Pernille Tofteng Shelton, Søren L. Pedersen
Review
Physics of Organic Semiconductors
by Wolfgang Brütting
Review

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