Wiley-VCH - Materials Science

1. Degradation, Stabilization, and Recycling of Packaging Materials

   Practical guidance to sustainable packaging and its challenges with analysis of various packaging materials and their interactions with different environments Degradation, Stabilization, and Recycling of Packaging Materials analyzes packaging materials and their interactions with different environments, discussing the degradation processes of different materials like wood, paper, glass, and metal, providing specific strategies to address these degradation processes, and exploring solid waste management, recent developments in recycling, and the principles of eco-friendly packaging design. Organized into two parts, the first section of this book provides a comprehensive examination of how environmental factors such as heat, shear, light, air, packaged products, and stress affect packaging materials, focusing on the chemistry of their deterioration and stabilization methods. The second section explores solid waste management, recent developments in recycling, and key principles of eco-friendly packaging design, culminating in an extensive discussion of legal and regulatory aspects. The book includes case studies and problem sets in each chapter, with solutions to the problems in an appendix in the back of the book. Written by a team of highly qualified authors, Degradation, Stabilization, and Recycling of Packaging Materials includes discussion on: * Structure of tinplate and tin-free steel, corrosion in lacquered cans, and effects of producing, processing, and storing metals * Recyclable versus repulpable paper, uses of recycled papers, wet-strength papers, non-wood fibers as paper sources, and contamination issues with paper recycling * Plastic recycling rates, plastic scrap exports in the US and abroad, chemical versus mechanical plastic recycling, hydrocracking of plastics, and PE and PET recycling * Lightweight glass bottles, strategies to modify or strengthen glass, and the real recyclability of glass Presenting advanced technical knowledge that demystifies the sustainable packaging landscape Degradation, Stabilization, and Recycling of Packaging Materials is a critical resource for researchers, students, and industry professionals in the field of materials science and packaging to evaluate challenges related to solid waste and devise effective disposal strategies. [384 Pages, Hardcover] Read More...

   
   
   
2. Phthalocyanine-Based Functional Polymeric Materials

   Covers the concepts, perspectives, and skills that many researches working on phthalocyanine chemistry need for their work. [384 Pages, Hardcover] Read More...

   
   
   
3. A Historical Approach to Materials Under Irradiation

   Researchers and students have not yet had access to a book which would enable them to trace the origins of the concepts that explain the behavior of materials under irradiation. This book fills the gap. As far back as antiquity, the notions of purity and disorder have been evoked to explain the different properties of materials. It was geologists who developed the subject in the 19th century. Then, with the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity, disorder in materials became the domain of physicists and chemists. The first observations focused on the color changes of ionic crystals, then gradually all the techniques for characterising materials were used. However, questions about the resistance of the components of the first atomic piles to irradiation led to the development of irradiation studies. This book describes the historical approaches to particle transport and defect creation mechanisms. Several chapters detail the history of irradiation of different types of materials: metals, semiconductors, iono-covalent insulators, polymers and radiolysis of water. The final two chapters deal with irradiation tools and applications. [320 Pages, Hardcover] Read More...

   
   
   
4. Rheology, Physical and Mechanical Behavior of Materials 4

   This book studies metallic and composite materials and their mechanical properties in terms of stiffness and strength, illustrated through several case studies and exercises. Rheology, Physical and Mechanical Behavior of Materials 4 focuses on the replacement of metal and wood products with fiber composites, which offer highly interesting directional mechanical properties. It studies various tests used to characterize the fiber-bonding pair in orthotropic layers and axes and also presents methods used to obtain stiffness and flexibility matrices, maximum stresses and deformations, and rupture envelopes. Finally, it presents various laminates, such as membrane and bending plates, tubular torsion, beat, buckling, twisting and sandwich structures. This book is aimed at researchers involved in the mechanics of deformation, those studying or teaching this topic and industrial design and manufacturing departments. [240 Pages, Hardcover] Read More...

   
   
   
5. Condition-Based Maintenance and Residual Life Prediction

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