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MXene Reinforced Polymer Composites: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications
by Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain Kalim Deshmukh Mayank PandeyMXene Reinforced Polymer Composites This volume is the first book to comprehensively explore the various fabrication and processing strategies for MXene-reinforced polymer composites including detailed characterizations and their numerous applications. The book systematically provides a critical discussion on the synthesis and processing methods, structure, properties, characterizations, surface chemistry, and functionalization strategies of MXenes and their utilization as efficient nanofiller into various polymer matrices to form high-performance polymer composites. The book provides a deep insight into the recent state-of-the-art progress in MXene-reinforced polymer composites, discussing several critical issues and providing suggestions for future work. The key features of this book are: Providing fundamental information and a clear understanding of the synthesis, processing, compositions, structure, and physicochemical properties of MXenes; Presenting a comprehensive review of several recent accomplishments and key scientific and technological challenges in developing MXene-reinforced polymer composites; Exploring various processing and fabrication methods of MXene-reinforced polymer composites; Providing deep insight into fundamental properties and various emerging applications of MXene-reinforced polymer/composites. Audience Researchers, postgraduates, and industry engineers working in materials science, polymer science, materials engineering, and nanotechnology, as well as technologists in electronic, electrical, and biomedical industries.
MXene-Based Emerging 2D Materials for Biomedical Applications
by Sarika VermaThis book provides a well-focused and comprehensive overview of the history and background of MXene-based materials and their structure, synthesis, properties, and modifications for making various advanced materials. It covers in-depth processing parameters for making MXene-based materials for high-end applications, especially in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields.MXene-Based Emerging 2D Materials for Biomedical Applications examines the use of MXenes in the healthcare sector as therapeutic agents in pharmaceuticals and medicine. The book examines MXene use in diagnosis and analysis as biosensors, disease detection, gene and drug delivery, cancer therapy, bioimaging, and graphen oxide (GO)-based antibacterial materials. It also discusses its potential as a promising antioxidant and GO-based scaffold for cell culture. It provides a comprehensive introduction of advanced MXene-based materials for the biomedical field/health sector through an interdisciplinary approach of research in science and biomedical engineering. The authors indicate possible areas wherein the advanced MXene-based emerging materials can benefit combining diagnostics and therapeutic possibilities and multiplex systems, and highlights the unique and novel approach to developing advanced medical applications platforms and state-of-the-art directions for future research.This book will guide bioengineering and material science students, scientists, and researchers to plan future research in this valuable field. It is a unique book that gives broad knowledge about MXene-based advanced materials under a single umbrella and demonstrates the usefulness of MXenes in the healthcare sector in multiple ways.
MXene-Based Photocatalysts: Fabrication and Applications (Emerging Materials and Technologies)
by Zuzeng QinMXene, a two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbide, nitride, and carbonitride, was discovered in 2011. MXene has great potential as a cocatalyst in the field of photocatalysis due to its unique properties and structure. MXene-Based Photocatalysts: Fabrication and Applications introduces readers to the fundamentals, preparation, microstructure characterization, and a variety of applications of MXene-based photocatalysts. The book is a comprehensive reference for MXene materials and provides an overview of the current literature on MXene-based photocatalysts. FEATURES Discusses preparation methods of MXenes Describes the morphology and microstructure of MXenes Offers strategies for fabricating MXene-based photocatalysts Details the reaction mechanism of MXene-based photocatalysts Covers applications in photocatalytic water-splitting, photocatalytic CO2 reduction, photocatalytic degradation, photocatalytic nitrogen fixation, and photocatalytic H2O2 production This book serves as an invaluable guide for advanced students, industry professionals, professors, and researchers in the field of materials science and engineering, photocatalysis, energy, and environmental applications.
MXene-Filled Polymer Nanocomposites (Emerging Materials and Technologies)
by Soney C. George Sharika T. Nair Joice Sophia PonrajMXenes are a new family of two-dimensional (2D) metal carbides, having properties such as metallic conductivity and hydrophilicity. Adding polymer binders/spacers between atomically thin MXene layers or reinforcing polymers with MXenes results in composite films that have excellent flexibility, good tensile and compressive strengths, and electrical conductivity. This book covers all advances in the field of MXene-filled polymer nanocomposites to date, illustrating fabrication and characterization, and specific properties like anti-healing, anti-friction, and microwave absorption. It further covers potential applications like energy conversion, storage systems, antibacterial, and drug delivery. The book features: exclusive material on MXene-based polymer nanocomposites; properties and potential applications of polymers upon addition of MXenes; the effect of MXenes on various thermoplastic and elastomer polymers; a focus on the properties, fabrications methods, and applications of relevant polymer matrices; and extensive coverage of the role of MXenes in polymers. This book is aimed at researchers, professionals, and graduate students in material science, polymer engineering, electronic materials, composites, chemical processing, chemical sciences, fire engineering, and biomedicine.
MXenes and MXenes-based Composites: Processing and Applications (Engineering Materials)
by Ling Bing Kong Tianshu Zhang Kun Zhou Zhuohao Xiao Shuangchen Ruan Wenxiu Que Yin LiuIn this book, the authors cover the recent progress in the synthesis, characterization and application of various multi-layered carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides. Moreover, the processing and development of MXene-based composites are elaborated, focusing on their applications and performances as transparent conductors in environmental remediation and energy storage systems.
MXenes for Energy Storage Applications: Emerging Characteristics, Compositions, and Synthesis Methods (Emerging Materials and Technologies)
by Muhammad Rafique M. Bilal Tahir Saira AnwarMXenes for Energy Storage Applications focuses on two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes), covering the structure, precursors, types of compositions, and unique properties of MXenes. It highlights various promising applications of MXenes-based materials across different energy fields, such as catalysis and energy conversion, including hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, oxygen reduction reaction, supercapacitors, batteries, and so forth.This book provides advanced solutions for all the issues and challenges related to energy storage and conversion: It covers a large range of MXenes from their basics to the advancements and their energy applications. It provides a detailed description of the structures, precursors, types of compositions, and unique properties of MXenes. It discusses synthesis techniques of MXenes along with their pros and cons. It summarizes the promising energy applications, including catalysis and electrochemical reactions for hydrogen production to batteries. It briefly explains recent progress, challenges, and practical limitations with proposed solutions. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in materials science, chemical engineering, and nanomaterials.
MXenes: Emerging 2D Materials
by Piyush Sharma Om Prakash PandeyThis book focuses on the expanding market for 2D MXenes and their increasing importance in future applications. It provides a thorough understanding of MXenes and their derivatives by exploring their complex composition and chemical diversity. The book provides a thorough examination of synthesis processes, characterization methodologies, and crucial attributes, which may give significant insights for both researchers and engineers. Furthermore, the book explores diverse applications of MXenes, spanning from energy storage and catalysis to electronics and beyond, thus highlighting their vast potential in driving technological innovation. Additionally, by elucidating the current state and challenges hindering the commercialization of 2D MXenes, this resource serves as a valuable guide for navigating the path towards widespread adoption. This book is an essential resource for scientists, engineers, research researchers, and students who want to delve into the captivating realm of 2D MXenes. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it a valuable tool.
MXenes: Expanding the Frontiers of Energy Applications (Clean Energy Production Technologies)
by Ravindra Pratap Singh Kshitij Rb Singh Jay Singh Ranjana VermaThe book covers fundamental aspects, explores the synthesis, composition, and various properties of this next-generation 2D material, and provides an account of the processing and development of MXenes and MXene-based composites. This book stands out as a unique contribution, focusing on two major aspects: fundamentals and energy storage applications. It thoroughly examines notable findings and technological challenges in detail. The aim is to bridge the knowledge gap in materials science, nanotechnology, and energy storage devices. The book discusses recent developments in MXenes and MXene-based composites for energy storage, including applications in supercapacitors, hybrid-ion capacitors, batteries, point-of-care devices, hydrogen storage, nanoelectronics, catalysis, electro/photocatalysis, and biofuel devices. This book provides a complete set of knowledge about 2D materials, specifically MXenes. The book serves as an excellent reference for researchers, scientists, and engineers. Moreover, it serves as a useful guide for undergraduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D. students, as well as academicians, scientists, researchers, and industry specialists working in advanced materials science, flexible electronics, nanoelectronics, and energy storage devices.
MXenes: From Research to Emerging Applications (Emerging Materials and Technologies)
by Subhendu ChakrobortyThis book introduces MXenes and provides a summary of current discoveries in their synthesis, properties, characterization techniques, and emerging applications in several fields. It explores MXenes' distinctive electrical, mechanical, and biological features, as well as their applications. It discusses the various emerging applications of MXenes in a variety of fields, including regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, separation membranes, photocatalytic hydrogen production, environmental applications, and so forth.Features: Provides comprehensive review of synthesis and application of MXenes in 2D materials Explores greener approaches that reduce the environmental impact and cost of the process Includes frameworks for assessing the balance between the synthesis and applications Discusses an overview of MXenes with a focus on energy, health, and medical applications that can be improved with new encapsulation Reviews the modern spectroscopic instruments that are utilized in sophisticated characterization methods This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in materials engineering, nanomaterials, and 2D materials.
MXenes: Fundamentals and Applications
by Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji Ravindra Pratap Singh Kshitij Rb Singh Jay SinghMXenes One-stop reference explaining the manufacturing, design, and many applications of MXenes in an easy-to-understand linear format MXenes is a one-stop reference on MXenes, a promising new class of 2D materials, discussing the routes of functionalization and modifications towards high performance materials and providing broad coverage of lab synthesis methods. To aid in reader comprehension, this text presents the topic in a linear fashion, starting with an introduction to MXenes and ending with a comparison of MXenes to other similar 2D materials, discussing limitations, advantages, future perspectives, and challenges of both MXenes and MXene-based materials. The text covers up-to-date research in the field with a strong focus on novel findings in various devices along with core technological advancements that have been made in recent years. MXenes discusses sample topics such as: Properties of MXenes, including strong hydrophilicity, exceptional conductivity, high elastic mechanical strength, large surface-to-volume ratio, and chemical stability Applications of MXenes in energy storage, optoelectronics, spintronics, biomedicine, electro-catalysis, photocatalysis, membrane separation, supercapacitors, and batteries Performance factors that can hinder the efficacy of MXenes, including aggregation, difficulty obtaining a single layer, restacking, and oxidation of MXene nanosheets State-of-the-art progress in the field of gas sensors and electrochemical biosensors for the detection of various biomolecules, pharmaceutical drugs, and environmental pollutants Containing everything readers need to know about this exciting new class of 2D materials, MXenes is an essential reference for professionals working in advanced materials science, flexible electronics, nanoelectronics, and the energy industry, along with chemists, material scientists, and engineers in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Ma Theory and the Creative Management of Innovation
by Mitsuru KodamaThis book focuses on the core theoretical concept of "Ma thinking" - an idea that serves as springboard for the thoughts and actions of distinguished practitioners, innovators, and researchers. The theoretical and practical importance of the Ma concept in new innovation activities lies in the thinking and activities of the leading practitioners. However, there is little academic research clarifying these characteristic dynamic transition mechanisms and the synthesis of diverse paradoxes through recursive activities between formal and informal organizations to achieve integration of dissimilar knowledge.
Mac Unlocked: Everything You Need to Know to Get Cracking in macOS Big Sur
by David PogueMake the most of your Mac with this witty, authoritative guide to macOS Big Sur.Apple updates its Mac operating system every year, adding new features with every revision. But after twenty years of this updating cycle without a printed user guide to help customers, feature bloat and complexity have begun to weigh down the works. For thirty years, the Mac faithful have turned to David Pogue&’s Mac books to guide them. With Mac Unlocked, New York Times bestselling author Pogue introduces readers to the most radical Mac software redesign in Apple history, macOS Big Sur. Beginning Mac users and Windows refugees will gain an understanding of the Mac philosophy; Mac veterans will find a concise guide to what&’s new in Big Sur, including its stunning visual and sonic redesign, the new Control Center for quick settings changes, and the built-in security auditing features. With a 300 annotated illustrations, sparkling humor, and crystal-clear prose, Mac Unlocked is the new gold-standard guide to the Mac.
Machinability of Advanced Materials (Wiley-iste Ser.)
by J. Paulo DavimMachinability of Advanced Materials addresses the level of difficulty involved in machining a material, or multiple materials, with the appropriate tooling and cutting parameters. A variety of factors determine a material’s machinability, including tool life rate, cutting forces and power consumption, surface integrity, limiting rate of metal removal, and chip shape. These topics, among others, and multiple examples comprise this research resource for engineering students, academics, and practitioners.
Machine Agency
by James Mattingly Beba CibralicAn engaging exploration of agency that provides students with the critical tools needed to understand and participate in debates about future machines.The great promise of artificial intelligence’s evolution lives alongside an equally great anxiety. As we develop increasingly autonomous machines that do things in the world, questions about agency—distinguishing machines that can act from those that cannot—are among the thorniest we face. A concise and probing exploration of agency, this accessible textbook provides the critical, technical, and conceptual tools needed to make sense of rapid changes in what machines can do and their role in our lives. James Mattingly and Beba Cibralic begin with an examination of foundational issues: What is agency? How does it differ from mindedness, consciousness, and intelligence? Can we attribute agency to certain machines, and if so, how and why? They then examine the social and ethical implications of building ever more complex machines, including those concerning moral status and responsibility. Drawing together ideas from philosophy and computer science as well as from information theory, literature, and the history of science, Machine Agency invites students to participate thoughtfully in critical debates about future machines.• Provides a roadmap for interrogating the concept of machine agency suitable for philosophy majors and non-majors alike• Investigates the connections between developments in AI and pressing issues in analytic philosophy• Explores the social and ethical impacts of computational systems with agency Features robust end-of-chapter exercises
Machine Analysis with Computer Applications for Mechanical Engineers
by James DoaneThe aim of this book is to motivate students into learning Machine Analysis by reinforcing theory and applications throughout the text. The author uses an enthusiastic hands-on approach by including photos of actual mechanisms in place of abstract line illustrations, and directs students towards developing their own software for mechanism analysis using Excel & Matlab. An accompanying website includes a detailed list of tips for learning machine analysis, including tips on working homework problems, note taking, preparing for tests, computer programming and other topics to aid in student success. Study guides for each chapter that focus on teaching the thought process needed to solve problems by presenting practice problems are included, as are computer animations for common mechanisms discussed in the text.
Machine Art in the Twentieth Century
by Andreas Broeckmann"Machine art" is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's relationships with machines. In the course of his investigation, Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect art of different periods, looking for continuities that link works from the end of the century to developments in the 1950s and 1960s and to works by avant-garde artists in the 1910s and 1920s. An art historical perspective, he argues, might change our views of recent works that seem to be driven by new media technologies but that in fact continue a century-old artistic exploration.Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally, Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift.
Machine Art in the Twentieth Century (Leonardo)
by Andreas BroeckmannAn investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods.“Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate people's relationships with machines. In the course of his investigation, Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect art of different periods, looking for continuities that link works from the end of the century to developments in the 1950s and 1960s and to works by avant-garde artists in the 1910s and 1920s. An art historical perspective, he argues, might change our views of recent works that seem to be driven by new media technologies but that in fact continue a century-old artistic exploration.Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally, Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift.
Machine Behavior Design And Analysis: A Consensus Perspective
by Shuai Li Yinyan ZhangIn this book, we present our systematic investigations into consensus in multi-agent systems. We show the design and analysis of various types of consensus protocols from a multi-agent perspective with a focus on min-consensus and its variants. We also discuss second-order and high-order min-consensus. A very interesting topic regarding the link between consensus and path planning is also included. We show that a biased min-consensus protocol can lead to the path planning phenomenon, which means that the complexity of shortest path planning can emerge from a perturbed version of min-consensus protocol, which as a case study may encourage researchers in the field of distributed control to rethink the nature of complexity and the distance between control and intelligence. We also illustrate the design and analysis of consensus protocols for nonlinear multi-agent systems derived from an optimal control formulation, which do not require solving a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. The book was written in a self-contained format. For each consensus protocol, the performance is verified through simulative examples and analyzed via mathematical derivations, using tools like graph theory and modern control theory. The book’s goal is to provide not only theoretical contributions but also explore underlying intuitions from a methodological perspective.
Machine Design with CAD and Optimization
by Sayed M. MetwalliThis book is designed to provide the new Computer Aided Design and Optimization tools and skills to generate real design synthesis of machine elements and systems on solid ground for better products and systems. This work provides the tool to directly obtain the synthesized real optimization tools to define the geometry and the particular selection of material. This is a new approach and a straightforward paradigm. It is divided into the following four parts: - Introduction and Design Considerations - Knowledge-based design: Introduction to the new Machine Element Design Synthesis - Introduction to computer aided design and optimization as tools used for Synthesis - Design of machine elements: rigorous traditional detailed design requirements These parts will include overview of chapters and enlightening design requirements.
Machine Dynamics: Kinematics and Dynamics
by Thorsten A. Kern Alireza AbbasimoshaeiIn this book, we aim to give a thorough introduction to machine dynamics. It covers the theoretical basis of dynamics, modelling, mechanical design, practical applications, kinematics and kinetics, principles of mechanics, equations of motion for multibody systems, applications to mechanisms, vehicle dynamics, and static and dynamic balancing. It covers a complete range of mechanisms and concepts, from the determination of degrees of freedom to the design of complex cams. This progression is explained at a reasonable pace so that by the end the reader is able to design and analyze mechanical systems. Throughout the book, we also try to introduce conceptual examples and exercises to make the text more practical and understandable for the reader and also useful as a reference for lectures in universities. In addition, most books in this field are too voluminous and therefore are not suitable as a reference for a lecture. In this book, we have reduced the unnecessary theory part and put more emphasis on practical examples. Moreover, it is written in such a way that it will guide the readers even if they have forgotten the dynamics and basic concept and provide enough information. So this book can be used as a self-study book.
Machine Elements: Life and Design
by Boris M. Klebanov David M. Barlam Frederic E. NystromFocusing on how a machine "feels" and behaves while operating, Machine Elements: Life and Design seeks to impart both intellectual and emotional comprehension regarding the "life" of a machine. It presents a detailed description of how machines elements function, seeking to form a sympathetic attitude toward the machine and to ensure its wellbeing
Machine Ethics: From Machine Morals to the Machinery of Morality (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics #53)
by Luís Moniz Pereira António Barata LopesThis book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy. Based on a dialogue between an AI scientist and a novelist philosopher, the book discusses important findings on which moral values machines can be taught and how. In turn, it investigates what kind of artificial intelligence (AI) people do actually want. What are the main consequences of the integration of AI in people’s every-day life? In order to co-exist and collaborate with humans, machines need morality, but which moral values should we teach them? Moreover, how can we implement benevolent AI? These are just some of the questions carefully examined in the book, which offers a comprehensive account of ethical issues concerning AI, on the one hand, and a timely snapshot of the power and potential benefits of this technology on the other. Starting with an introduction to common-sense ethical principles, the book then guides the reader, helping them develop and understand more complex ethical concerns and placing them in a larger, technological context. The book makes these topics accessible to a non-expert audience, while also offering alternative reading pathways to inspire more specialized readers.
Machine Intelligence Techniques for Data Analysis and Signal Processing: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference MISP 2022, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #997)
by M. Tanveer Ram Bilas Pachori Lalit Garg Dilip Singh SisodiaThis book comprises the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP2022). The contents of this book focus on research advancements in machine intelligence, signal processing, and applications. The book covers the real-time challenges involved while processing big data analytics and stream processing with the integration of smart data computing services and interconnectivity. It also includes the progress in signal processing to process the normal and abnormal categories of real-world signals such as signals generated from IoT devices, smart systems, speech, and videos and involves biomedical signal processing: electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electromyogram (EMG), etc. This book proves a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.
Machine Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Cybersecurity Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence #919)
by Yassine Maleh Mamoun Alazab Mohammad Shojafar Youssef BaddiThis book presents the latest advances in machine intelligence and big data analytics to improve early warning of cyber-attacks, for cybersecurity intrusion detection and monitoring, and malware analysis. Cyber-attacks have posed real and wide-ranging threats for the information society. Detecting cyber-attacks becomes a challenge, not only because of the sophistication of attacks but also because of the large scale and complex nature of today’s IT infrastructures. It discusses novel trends and achievements in machine intelligence and their role in the development of secure systems and identifies open and future research issues related to the application of machine intelligence in the cybersecurity field. Bridging an important gap between machine intelligence, big data, and cybersecurity communities, it aspires to provide a relevant reference for students, researchers, engineers, and professionals working in this area or those interested in grasping its diverse facets and exploring the latest advances on machine intelligence and big data analytics for cybersecurity applications.
Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics for Sustainable Future Smart Cities (Studies in Computational Intelligence #971)
by Al-Sakib Khan Pathan Yassine Maleh Mamoun Alazab Uttam GhoshThis book presents the latest advances in computational intelligence and data analytics for sustainable future smart cities. It focuses on computational intelligence and data analytics to bring together the smart city and sustainable city endeavors. It also discusses new models, practical solutions and technological advances related to the development and the transformation of cities through machine intelligence and big data models and techniques. This book is helpful for students and researchers as well as practitioners.