Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Luk'yanchuk, Igor A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mezzane, Daoud (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Energy.; Physical chemistry.; Magnetism.; Magnetic materials.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Engineering.; Materials science.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Materials Science, general.; Physical Chemistry.; Engineering, general.; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.; Energy, general.

 Rapid evolution of trade, cultural and human relations provides the qualitative and quantitative enhancement of international collaborations, linking the countries with different economical and technological level. Delocalization of High-Tech industry inevitably leads to development of the material science and engineering researches in emergent countries, requiring transfer of know-how, restructuration of basic research and educational networks. This book presents the contributions of participants of the Advanced Research Workshop “Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security” (ARW SMECS; www.smecs.ferroix.net), organized in December 2007 in Marrakech in frame of the “NATO - Science for Peace” program. The objective of this event was the attempt to overview several hot topics of material physics related with problems of modern society: transformation and storage of energy, treatment and transmission of information, environmental security issues etc., with the focus of their implementation in Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) countries: Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. The workshop is an important stage in developing of the research network “Mediterranean Electronic Materials” – MEM (www.reseau-MEM.org), that has an objective to encourage the inter-Maghreb and Europe-Maghreb collaborative studies in the area of electroactive materials. Participants of the Advanced Research Workshop “Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security” , Marrakech, Morocco, December 2007 v vi PREFACE. 

 Materials, Transmission, Treatment and Storage of Information -- Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials for Spintronics -- Large Area Nb Nanolayers with Advanced Superconducting Properties as a Base for Superconducting Spintronics -- Amorphous Chalcogenide Materials with Smart Memory -- Magnetic Refrigeration: Application to the Electron Doped Manganites -- Towards Electrochromic Devices Active in the IR Region -- Nitride Semiconductors Investigated at a Nanoscale -- Prospective Terahertz Applications of Carbon Nanotubes -- Energy Related Materials -- Smart Materials and Concepts for Photovoltaics: Dye Sensitized Solar Cells -- Magnetotransport Properties of Copper Ternaries: New Solar Cells Materials -- Structural and Electrical Properties of Nano-Crystalline LiCoO2 Cathode Material Synthesized by a Simplified Combustion Method -- Ionic Transport Behavior in Na2SO4-Li2O-MoO3-P2O5 Glassy System -- Piezo- and Electro-Active Materials -- Electrical Conduction and Dielectric Properties in Piezoelectric Fibre Composites -- New Method for Preparation of Polycrystalline Langasite for Gas Sensors: Structural Studies -- Dielectric Anomalies and Relaxation Behavior in Hydrothermally Processed PLZT Ferroelectric Ceramics -- 180° Ferroelectric Domains in Thin Films and Superlattices -- Other Functional Materials -- Clays and Clay Minerals in Western High Atlas: Characterization, Geological Significance and Industrial Uses -- TEM Analysis Of Advanced Devices For Electronics Or Spintronics: From Structure To Properties -- Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Copper Processed by Equal Channel Angular Extrusion.