Metals and Nonmetals

Our collection of 45 books.

Metallic Glasses - Properties and Processing

Edited by Hu Huang
ISBN 978-1-78923-721-4, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-720-7,
Edited Volume
144 pages, September, 2018

Metallic glasses are very promising engineering and functional materials due to their unique mechanical, chemical, and physical properties, attracting increasing attention from both scientific and industrial communities. However, their practical appl ...
Superalloys for Industry Applications

Edited by Sinem Cevik
ISBN 978-1-78923-539-5, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-538-8,
Edited Volume
118 pages, August, 2018

In recent years, superalloys have been widespread usage in aerospace gas turbine engine parts. The main reason of it is that these materials have high yield, ultimate tensile strength, and very good corrosion/oxidation resistance, and they combine th ...
Noble and Precious Metals - Properties, Nanoscale Effects and Applications

Edited by Mohindar Singh Seehra and Alan D. Bristow
ISBN 978-1-78923-293-6, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-292-9,
Edited Volume
430 pages, July, 2018

The use of copper, silver, gold and platinum in jewelry as a measure of wealth is well known. This book contains 19 chapters written by international authors on other uses and applications of noble and precious metals (copper, silver, gold, platinum, ...
Zeolites and Their Applications

Edited by M.Nageeb Rashed and P.N. Palanisamy
ISBN 978-1-78923-343-8, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-342-1,
Edited Volume
188 pages, June, 2018

Zeolites are hydrated aluminosilicate minerals of the family of microporous solids. According to the US Geological Survey, there are about 40 naturally occurring zeolites, forming in sedimentary and volcanic rocks. The most commonly mined forms inclu ...
Bismuth - Advanced Applications and Defects Characterization

Edited by Ying Zhou, Fan Dong and Shengming Jin
ISBN 978-1-78923-263-9, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-262-2,
Edited Volume
230 pages, June, 2018

Bismuth (Bi) is a post-transition metal element with the atomic number of 83, which belongs to the pnictogen group elements in Period 6 in the elemental periodic table. As a heavy metal, the hazard of Bi is unusually low in contrast to its neighbors ...
Austenitic Stainless Steels - New Aspects

Edited by Wojciech Borek, Tomasz Tanski and Zbigniew Brytan
ISBN 978-953-51-3702-3, Print ISBN 978-953-51-3701-6,
Edited Volume
218 pages, December, 2017

Stainless steel is still one of the fastest growing materials. Today, the austenitic stainless steel with the classic composition of 18% Cr and 8% Ni (grade 304L) is still the most widely used by far in the world. The unique characteristic of stainle ...
Ion Implantation - Research and Application

Edited by Ishaq Ahmad
ISBN 978-953-51-3238-7, Print ISBN 978-953-51-3237-0,
Edited Volume
152 pages, June, 2017

Ion implantation is one of the promising areas of sciences and technologies. It has been observed as a continuously evolving technology. In this book, there is a detailed overview of the recent ion implantation research and innovation along with the ...
Progress in Metallic Alloys

Edited by Vadim Glebovsky
ISBN 978-953-51-2697-3, Print ISBN 978-953-51-2696-6,
Edited Volume
298 pages, October, 2016

In general, metallic alloys are the interdisciplinary subject or even an area that cover physics, chemistry, material science, metallurgy, crystallography, etc. This book is devoted to the metallic alloys. The primary goal is to provide coverage of a ...

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