Industrie & Artisanat

Give Me Ten Seconds

 John Sergeant's acclaimed memoir takes us from his somewhat eccentric childhood to his thirty years' service with the BBC. Memorably handbagged by Margaret Thatcher on the steps of the Paris Embassy as she lost the leadership contest, and the man to whom Ron Davis confessed his midnight perambulations on Clapham Common, Sergeant has been the man on the spot in most of the major news …Lire la suite

Supercapacitors

Written by an international group of leading experts from both academia and industry, this is the first comprehensive book on the topic for 10 years. Taking into account the commercial interest in these systems and the scientific and technological developments over the past decade, all important materials and systems are covered, with several chapters devoted to topics of direct industrial …Lire la suite

Thomas Cook

The Holiday Maker

Rich people from the times of the Greeks and Romans had always travelled for pleasure, indeed there was nothing new in the aristocratic Grand Tours taking in Paris and Rome, but it was Thomas Cook - aided by the spreading of the railways, an increase in statutory holidays and his wide use of advertising who first helped to bring mobility to the masses. In this, the first book to look at the man…Lire la suite

Peptide Materials

From Nanostuctures to Applications

The design, synthesis, and characterization of peptide-based materials is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field, with opportunities to design new bio-hybrid materials and bio-inspired molecular devices. This volume covers the fundamentals of peptide-based materials, peptide nanostructures, peptide conjugates and hybrid materials, and applications of peptide-based materials. Numerous topics are…Lire la suite

Self-Healing Polymers

From Principles to Applications

This self-contained reference, written by a team of renowned international authors adopt a didactical approach to systematically cover all important aspects of designing self-healing polymers from concepts to applications - transferring lessons learnt from nature to materials science. It is the first to discuss the chemical and physical concepts for self-healing polymers, including aspects of …Lire la suite

Extractive Metallurgy 1

Basic Thermodynamics and Kinetics

This book is dedicated to the processes of mineral transformation, recycling and reclamation of metals, for the purpose of turning metals and alloys into a liquid state ready for pouring.Even though "process metallurgy" is one of the oldest technologies implemented by man, technological innovation, with the development of processes that are both focused on product quality and economically and …Lire la suite

Elektrofotografischer Druck von leitfähigen Dickschichtstrukturen

Moderne Elektronik hat in den letzten Jahren in nahezu alle Lebensbereiche des Menschen Einzug erhalten und ist eine wesentliche technologische Stütze unserer modernen Gesellschaft. Während dieses dynamischen Weiterentwicklungsprozesses der Anwendung von Elektronik blieben jedoch die Entwicklungen in deren Herstellung teilweise dahinter zurück. So ist im Bereich der gedruckten Elektronik …Lire la suite

Microstructural Characterization of Materials

Microstructural characterization is usually achieved by allowing some form of probe to interact with a carefully prepared specimen. The most commonly used probes are visible light, X-ray radiation, a high-energy electron beam, or a sharp, flexible needle. These four types of probe form the basis for optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, and scanning probe microscopy.…Lire la suite

Lunch with the FT

52 Classic Interviews

From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table.The list of people who have had Lunch with the FT since 1994 reads like an international Who's Who of our times. Meet the rich and famous, the weird and the brilliant, the brave and the virtuous, …Lire la suite

Tomography

The principle of tomography is to explore the structure and composition of objects non-destructively along spatial and temporal dimensions, using penetrating radiation, such as X- and gamma-rays, or waves, such as electromagnetic and acoustic waves. Based on computer-assisted image reconstruction, tomography provides maps of parameters that characterize the emission of the employed radiation or…Lire la suite