"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The impact of materials on progress -- 1.2. A possible classification of physical metallurgy -- 1.3. Electrons to components2. Crystal structures -- 2.1. Platonic solids -- 2.2. The crystal, lattice and mo…
"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction : Crystal engineering -- 1. Holding things together -- 1.1. Covalent bonds -- 1.2. Ionic bonds -- 1.3. Comparison of ionic and covalent bonding -- 1.4. Non-bonding interactions -- 1.5. Hydrogen bonding -- 1.6. Hybrid…
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Some basic concepts in solid state physics -- 2.1. Drude model -- 2.2. Sommerfeld model3. From orbitals to bands -- 3.1. Orbitals in a chain of atoms -- 3.2. Importance of the crystal structures -- 3.3. Covalent solids…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Quasicrystallography. 1. Crystalline structure -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Atomic theory -- 1.3. The structure of crystals -- 1.4. Crystals and symmetry2. X-ray diffraction techniques -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. X-ray diffraction …
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Electromagnetic metamaterials, plasmonics and transformation optics -- 2. Modeling of time with metamaterials : metamaterial models of the Big Bang, the 'end of time', and the fractal time -- 3. Nonlinear optics of the metamaterial 'spac…
"Version: 20190301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An introduction to drug/gene delivery systems -- 2. Smart nanostructures -- 2.1. Controlled gene delivery systems : the concept -- 3. Aptamer-based nanostructures -- 3.1. Aptamer-conjugated nanoparticles -- 4. Protein-based nanostructure…
"Version: 20190801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Conductors, insulators, and electric circuits -- 2.1. Conductors versus insulators -- 2.2. Electric circuits : voltage and current -- 2.3. Electrical resistance, current, and Ohm's law -- 2.4. Summary3. Early developme…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to nanomaterials and nanostructures -- 1.2. Top-down and bottom-up approaches -- 1.3. Overview on physical chemistry of solid surfaces2. Classification and characterization of nanomaterials -- 2.1. Dimen…
"Version: 20190801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : open-channel microfluidics and open microfluidics -- 1. Capillarity theoretical basis -- 1.1. Liquid surface tension -- 1.2. Laplace pressure -- 1.3. Liquid-liquid surface tension -- 1.4. Contact with solid surface : Young's …
"Version: 20181201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. History of multiple scattering theory -- 2. Scattering theory -- 2.1. Potential scattering -- 2.2. Position representation -- 2.3. The classic scattering experiment -- 2.4. Angular momentum expansion -- 2.5. Non-spherical potentials with finite domains -- 2.6. Spherical potentials -- 2.7. Analytical properties of scatt…