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Materials for Nuclear Plants: From Safe Design to Residual Life Assessments

Springer, 2012

The clamor for non-carbon dioxide emitting energy production has directly impacted on the development of nuclear energy. As new nuclear plants are built, plans and designs are continually being developed to manage the range of challenging requirement and problems that nuclear plants face especially when managing the greatly increased...

Unimolecular and Supramolecular Electronics I: Chemistry and Physics Meet at Metal-Molecule Interfaces

Springer, 2012

Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors, by Heinz Bässler and Anna Köhler. Frontiers of Organic Conductors and Superconductors, by Gunzi Saito and Yukihiro Yoshida. Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, and Graphene for Molecular Electronics, by Julio R. Pinzón, Adrián Villalta-Cerdas and Luis Echegoyen. Current Challenges...

Artificial Organic Networks: Artificial Intelligence Based on Carbon Networks

Springer, 2013

This monograph describes the synthesis and use of biologically-inspired artificial hydrocarbon networks (AHNs) for approximation models associated with machine learning and a novel computational algorithm with which to exploit them. The reader is first introduced to various kinds of algorithms designed to deal with approximation problems and...

Quantum Mechanics of Molecular Structures

Springer, 2013

The world we live in is filled with molecules. Starting with oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, water, carbon dioxide, and ammonia are all molecules. Furthermore, plants and animals are all composed of molecules. In the field of chemistry, which is regarded as science for molecules, it has been one of the most important and...

Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach in Earth System Science: Advances of a Helmholtz Graduate Research School (Springer Earth System Sciences)

Springer, 2015

This book describes the latest advances at the Helmholtz “Earth System Science Research School” where scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, the University of Bremen, and the Jacobs University are involved in research.

One of the greatest challenges is understanding ongoing environmental changes....

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World

MIT Press, 2011

We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control -- or foretell -- the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. The first law of human...

Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing

New Press, 2013

Rationing: it’s a wordÂand ideaÂthat people often loathe and fear. Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to Âshouting an obscenity in church.” Yet societies in fact ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. As...

Energy, Transport, & the Environment: Addressing the Sustainable Mobility Paradigm

Springer, 2012

I had the pleasure to be one of the speakers at the 2010 World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, held by the Smith School of the University of Oxford. The participants, drawn from academia, industry, government and NGOs, were asked to explore the challenges and offer pathways to a sustainable, low carbon transportation...

Algae for Biofuels and Energy (Developments in Applied Phycology)

Springer, 2012

Microalgae are one of the most studied potential sources of biofuels and bioenergy. This book covers the key steps in the production of renewable biofuels from microalgae - strain selection, culture systems, inorganic carbon utilisation, lipid metabolism and quality, hydrogen production, genetic engineering, biomass harvesting,...

Solid State Chemistry and its Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Solid State Chemistry and its Applications, 2nd Edition: Student Edition is an extensive update and sequel to the bestselling textbook Basic Solid State Chemistry, the classic text for undergraduate teaching in solid state chemistry worldwide.

Solid state chemistry lies at the heart of many significant scientific...

Introduction to Supercritical Fluids, Volume 4: A Spreadsheet-based Approach (Supercritical Fluid Science and Technology)

Elsevier Limited, 2013

This text provides an introduction to supercritical fluids with easy-to-use Excel spreadsheets suitable for both specialized-discipline (chemistry or chemical engineering student) and mixed-discipline (engineering/economic student) classes. Each chapter contains worked examples, tip boxes and end-of-the-chapter problems and projects.

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The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory: Build Over 200 Pieces of Science Equipment! (Make)

Maker Media, Inc, 2015

In this book, you will learn how to make some amazing things: a carbon arc furnace, cloud chamber, mechanical stroboscope, radiometer, optical micrometer, electromagnet, microtome, spectroscope, and so many others. You will blow glass, catch bugs, and cut the ends off of power cords. You will learn how acids and alkalis taste, what lands of...

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