This series is designed to illustrate the many new and exciting challenges in the expansive and interdisciplinary field of materials science and engineering. The scope of this series is broad, with reference works and textbooks offering insight into all aspects of materials development. The titles in this series deliver authoritative information to professionals, researchers, and students across engineering and scientific disciplines. Each volume offers a comprehensive approach covering fundamentals, technologies, and applications and includes real-world examples where appropriate.
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By Meicheng Li
February 25, 2025
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted increasing interest from researchers due to their superb power conversion efficiencies. The intrinsic trap defects, unavoidably formed in the fabrication process, can induce nonradiative recombination, ion migration, I-V hysteresis, and instability of ...
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By Yinquan Yu, Sam Zhang
December 31, 2024
As transportation systems for land, air, and space vehicles continue to grow increasingly sophisticated, more advanced materials are needed to support their development and commercialization. Materials for Land, Air, and Space Transportation details new materials development for these ...
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By Jiangzhao Chen, Sam Zhang
October 29, 2024
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received increasing attention in academia and industry due to their low cost, high efficiency, and solution processibility. In a short period, striking advancements have been made in power conversion efficiencies of single- and multi-junction PSCs, as well as on ...
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By Jiangzhao Chen, Sam Zhang
October 29, 2024
Organic–inorganic hybrid metal halide perovskite materials have attracted significant attention due to their advantages of low cost, tunable band gap, solution processing, high molar extinction coefficient, low exciton binding energy, and high carrier mobility. Perovskite absorber layers play a ...
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By Jiangzhao Chen, Sam Zhang
October 29, 2024
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as one of the most promising new solar cells, with strong commercial potential. Several challenges remain before PSCs can be released in wide-scale commercial application. This book highlights the opportunities, advancements, and critical challenges ...
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By Sam Zhang
October 09, 2024
From everyday applications to the rise of automation, devices have become ubiquitous. Specific materials are employed in specific devices because of their particular properties, including electrical, thermal, magnetic, mechanical, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric. Materials for Devices discusses ...
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By Sam Zhang, Jyh-Ming Ting, Wan-Yu Wu
October 07, 2024
Hard or protective coatings are widely used in conventional and modern industries and will continue to play a key role in future manufacturing, especially in the micro and nano areas. Protective Thin Coatings Technology highlights the developments and advances in the preparation, characterization, ...
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By Sam Zhang, Jyh-Ming Ting, Wan-Yu Wu
October 04, 2024
Functional Thin Films Technology features the functional aspects of thin films, such as their application in solar selective absorbers, fiber lasers, solid oxide fuel cells, piezo-related areas, catalysts, superhydrophobicity, semiconductors, and trace pesticides detection. It highlights ...
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By Jiangzhao Chen, Sam Zhang
September 27, 2024
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received significant attention in academia and industry due to their low cost and high-power conversion efficiency (PCE). Single- and multijunction PSCs have obtained promising certified PCEs, which suggests that PSCs are a very promising next-generation ...
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By Jing Huang
September 04, 2024
Porous carbons are widely used as electrode materials for supercapacitors owing to their high specific surface areas, abundant surface functionalities, well‑controlled pore systems, and excellent conductivity and stability. New carbon materials with well‑defined nanostructures and functionalization...
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By Yinquan Yu, Sam Zhang
December 21, 2022
This book introduces the latest processing technologies for a variety of materials in advanced manufacturing and applications. Design criteria and considerations of processing or devices are theoretically introduced, and numerical simulation and experimental study are included. FEATURES Covers ...
By Dong ZhiLi
May 24, 2022
The structure–property relationship is a key topic in materials science and engineering. To understand why a material displays certain behaviors, the first step is to resolve its crystal structure and reveal its structure characteristics. Fundamentals of Crystallography, Powder X-ray Diffraction, ...