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Part 1 Liquid crystals - main types and properties: introduction - what is a liquid crystal? the building blocks nematics and cholesterics smectics columnar phases more on long-, quasi-long and short-range order remarkab...

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Materias / palabras clave: Evaporator; Combustor; Work (physics); Methanol; Nuclear engineering; Process engineering; Engineering; Mechanical engineering; Waste management; Chemistry; Combustion; Heat exchanger

It has been recognized for some time that the spontaneous emission by atoms is not necessarily a fixed and immutable property of the coupling between matter and space, but that it can be controlled by modification of the...

Materias / palabras clave: Physics; Subroutine; Particle physics; Parton; Quantum chromodynamics; Range (aeronautics); Representation (politics); Event (particle physics); Physics beyond the Standard Model; Statistical physics; Computer science; A...

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how pro...

"Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow." Nuclear Science and Engineering, 78(2), pp. 196–197 Additional informationNotes on contributorsChia-Jung HsuAbout the Reviewer: C. J. Hsu has been at Brookhaven National Labora...

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Phonon plays essential roles in dynamical behaviors and thermal properties, which are central topics in fundamental issues of materials science. The importance of first principles phonon calculations cannot be overly emp...

Materias / palabras clave: Photovoltaics; Nanotechnology; Nanocrystalline material; Materials science; Photovoltaic system; Fabrication; Flexibility (engineering); Energy conversion efficiency; Engineering physics; Optoelectronics; Electrical engi...

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Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent ad...

Materias / palabras clave: Graphene; Physics; Theoretical physics; Nanotechnology; Engineering physics; Quantum mechanics; Materials science

Since the classical molecular dynamics simulator LAMMPS was released as an open source code in 2004, it has become a widely-used tool for particle-based modeling of materials at length scales ranging from atomic to mesos...

Preface to the Fourth Edition. 1 Biomechanics as an Interdiscipline. 1.0 Introduction. 1.1 Measurement, Description, Analysis, and Assessment. 1.2 Biomechanics and its Relationship with Physiology and Anatomy. 1.3 Scope ...

Materias / palabras clave: Range (aeronautics); Software; Set (abstract data type); Tracking (education); Computer science; Physics; Systems engineering; Computational science; Aerospace engineering; Programming language; Engineering; Pedagogy