MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND DEVICES

Materials, Manufacturing Processes and Devices brings together research that highlights the synergy between advanced materials, innovative fabrication methods, and real-world device applications. This book showcases how material design and manufacturing techniques can drive performance in cutting-edge technologies. Bridging academic research and industry relevance, this volume is an essential reference for materials scientists, engineers, and researchers aiming to design functional materials and devices.

Contents:

• Preface
• Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids Made of Metal Oxide Nanostructures Synthesized by Arc Discharge Method (F Fang, J Futter, E Hutchinson, J Leveneur and J Kennedy)
• Synthesis of NiO/TiO₂ Sub-microrods as Catalyst for Methanol Oxidation Reaction (Xiaoyu Yue, Yixuan Wang, Ting Zhang and Wei Gao)
• Oxygen Vacancies-Contained SnO₂ Nanotubes with Enhanced Ethanol Gas Sensing Properties (Yifan Chen, Xiuling Ma, Chen Li, Qiuyu Wu, Yongbo Wang, Menjun Huang, Bitao Liu and Lu Li)
• Dried Plum-Like ZnO Assemblies Consisted of ZnO Nanoparticles Synthesized by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis (Congzhi Zhang, Tao Han, Wei Wang and Jin Zhang)
• The Influence of Co-doping Strontium and Zirconium on Structure and Ionic Conductivities of Li_6+y La_3–ySr_yNbZrO₁₂ Solid Electrolytes (Tianhang Zhang, Yangai Liu, Timothy Daniel Christopher, Saifang Huang, Tao Yang, Zhaohui Huang, Wei Gao, Tilo Söhnel and Peng Cao)
• A High-Performance Graphene Based Asymmetric Supercapacitor (Syeda Wishal Bokhari, Ahmad Hassan Siddique, Harshpreet Singh, Muhammad Dilawer Hayat, Shenmin Zhu and Wei Gao)
• Nanoshell Si/Cu Composites as Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Battery (Manshu Zhang, Lian Shen and Yangai Liu)
• Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) by Ag Nanoparticles on Anodized TiO_2–X Nanotubes (Ting Zhang, Junzhi Ye, Rakesh Arul, Tingxuan Yang, Yixuan Wang, Xiaoyu Yue, Marcel Schaefer, Cather Simpson, Michél K Nieuwoudt, Saifang Huang, Shanghai Wei and Wei Gao)
• Ultra Clean Manufacturing Techniques for Final Optics Assembly in High-Power Laser Facility (Xiaodong Yuan, Caizhen Yao, Xinxiang Miao, Haibing Lv, Guorui Zhou, Longfei Niu, Hao Liu, Feihu Zhang, Qingshun Bai, Jiaxuan Chen, Yongzhi Cao and Yongbo Guo)
• Investigation of New Zealand's Natural Magnetic Minerals for Application in Inroad Charging Systems (William J Trompetter, Jérôme Leveneur, John Kennedy, Ben Rumsey, Murray McCurdy, Shen Chong and Nick Long)
• Cu₂ZnSnS₄ (CZTS) Thin Films Prepared by Sol–Gel Spin-Coating Technique (Chao Xiong, Min Gao and Wei Gao)
• Model-Based Analysis of Geometrical Effects in Microfluidic Fuel Cell with Flow-Through Porous Electrodes (Qiang Xu, Yiyi She and Li Li)
• Surface Modification of TiO₂ for Visible Light Photocatalysis: Experimental and Theoretical Calculations of Its Electronic and Optical Properties (Dessy Ariyanti, Surayya Mukhtar, Nisar Ahmed, Zhuofeng Liu, Junzhe Dong and Wei Gao)
• Study of Fast Charging Battery (Mingfang Liu, Feng Rao, Bei Li, Xinya Jiang and Xianggang Meng)
• Cu–TiO₂ Nanocomposite Coatings Prepared from Sol-Enhanced Electrodeposition (Zhen He, Shengping Zhang, Li Yin, Muhammed D Hayat and Peng Cao)
• Laser Cladding of Ni60 + 17-4PH Composite for a Cracking-Free and Corrosion Resistive Coating (Zhaohui Chen, Ruifeng Li, Jiayang Gu, Zhongyu Zhang, Yanwu Tao and Yingtao Tian)
• Effect of Mg Plate Pretreatment on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al/Mg/Al Laminated Composites Fabricated by Hot Roll Bonding (Yang Yu, Xinzhe Xue, Zhehao Lu, Tingyu Li, Cong Ma, Pengfei Yan and Biao Yan)
• Study of Parameters Affecting Microcontact Printing of Thiols on Gold-Coated Substrate (Swapna A Jaywant and Khalid Mahmood Arif)
• Effect of Graphene Lateral Size on the Microstructure and Properties of Graphene/Copper Composites (Dandan Zhang, Huaxing Xiao, Wei Jiang, Xia Cao, Manyu Ye, Lu Huang and Tao Tang)
• Solar Energy Harvesting with Ultra-Broadband Metamaterial Absorber (Mehmet Bagmanci, Muharrem Karaaslan, Emin Unal, Oguzhan Akgol, Mehmet Bakır and Cumali Sabah)
• The Effect of CaO/SiO₂ and B₂O₃ on the Sintering Contraction Behaviors of CaO-B₂O₃-SiO₂ Glass-Ceramics (Tingnan Yan, Weijun Zhang, Haijun Mao, Xingyu Chen and Shuxin Bai)
• Polymorphic Transformations and Thermal Expansion of Some Modifications in Ag_1.5Cu_0.5Se and Ag_0.4Cu_1.6Se (Y I Aliyev, Y G Asadov, A O Dashdemirov, R D Aliyeva, T G Naghiyev and S H Jabarov)
• THz Cutoff Frequency and Multifunction Ti₂Ba₂Ca₂Cu₃O₁₀/GaAs Photonic Bandgap Materials (Arafa H Aly and Fatma A Sayed)
• Spatially Resolved Characterization of Optical and Recombination Losses for Different Industrial Silicon Solar Cell Architectures (E J Schneller, M J Hossain, R Frota, N Iqbal, D Colvin, A J Curran, M Wang, J L Braid, L S Bruckman, R H French, B D Huey, J-N Jaubert and K O Davis)
• Effects of SiC Nanowires on Reliability of Sn58Bi-0.05GNSs/Cu Solder Joints (Nan Jiang, Liang Zhang, Kai-Kai Xu, Mu-Lan Li and Feng-Jiang Wang)
• Insightful Study of the Characterization of the Cobalt Oxide Nanomaterials and Hydrothermal Synthesis (Muhammad Yasir Raza, Jamil Abbas Haider, N Ameer Ahammad, Kamel Guedri and Ahmed M Galal)

Readership: Researchers, engineers, and graduate students in materials science, particularly those focused on functional materials and device applications.