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Our eBooks highlight recent advances in the field of optical metrology, the manufacturing and application of advanced materials manufacturing, surface engineering, battery research and more.

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Mastering Surface Analysis: Ensuring Defect-Free Battery Manufacturing

Our How-to Guide provides you with a detailed approach to inspecting and analyzing electrode surfaces, focusing on enhancing optical contrast and identifying defects using various imaging techniques

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eBook 23: Flexibility and Functionality: Material Innovations for Wearable Tech and Soft Robotics

This eBook highlights recent advancements in the development of thin films for wearable technology and soft robotics.

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The Future of Energy: Infographic and eBook Collection

Which materials are capable of revolutionizing energy storage? Which challenges are researchers facing when developing advanced battery materials? Explore the answers to these critical questions with our collection of the Beyond Lithium-Ion Batteries infographic and three eBooks on battery research and materials inspection.

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eBook 22: Real-time Insights into Dendrite-Free Zn-Ion Battery Performance

This eBook unravels the multifaceted strategies employed
to stabilize zinc anodes, from optimizing electrolyte formulations to designing protective coatings.

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eBook 21: The Future of Alloys: Enhancing Performance Through Surface Modification

This eBook aims to expand the knowledge of the development of more robust, versatile, and long-lasting materials, displaying the transformative potential of innovative surface engineering techniques in various industrial applications.

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eBook 20: Exploring Advanced Battery Technologies: Powering the Future

This eBook discusses the increasing energy consumption in modern life, historically fueled by finite fossil fuels that have led to environmental issues and global warming. It emphasizes the need for transitioning to environmentally friendly alternative energy sources like hydroelectric, solar, geothermal, wind, nuclear, and biomass energy, which have spurred the growth of new industries.

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eBook 19: The Power of Geoarchaeology in Understanding Our World: Unveiling the Past

This eBook explores the field of geoarchaeology, which uses techniques like X-ray fluorescence and microscopy to study ancient artifacts. It delves into how these methods help uncover the secrets of past societies and offers insights into the lives and societies that produced them.

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eBook 18: The Role of Ceramics in Transforming Industries: Applications and Future Developments

The eBook provides an overview of ceramics as a class of inorganic, non-metallic materials with important roles in various applications. It discusses their excellent mechanical, thermal, electrical, and chemical properties, as well as their inherent brittleness, and highlights the crucial role of optical metrology in characterizing ceramics and ensuring their quality and performance.

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eBook 17: Lithium-Ion Batteries and their Impact on Renewable Energy

The eBook explores the significance of lithium-ion batteries in addressing climate change and energy storage challenges, emphasizing their role in both small-scale and large-scale applications. It also discusses ongoing efforts to improve lithium-ion battery technologies and their contribution to global decarbonization and sustainable energy systems.

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eBook 16: Advances in Microscale Photonics: Characterization Techniques for Materials in Volume

The eBook introduces recent advances in microscale photonics, covering topics such as characterization techniques for materials in volume, electrohydrodynamic inkjet printing for mid-infrared meta-optics, fabrication of designer glass, ultrafast coherent spectroscopy of GaAs quantum dots, and surface detection filters for transparent films. These advancements have the potential to transform industries like medicine, telecommunications, and sensing.

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eBook 15: Optimizing Interface Conductivity in Electronics: LSM Characterization of Surface Properties

This eBook introduces interface conductivity in electronics, covering topics such as substrate surface roughness, microstrip transmission lines, copper nanoparticles, ink-jet printing, wafer-scale graphene, and more!

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eBook 14: Tribology: Surface Interaction Experiments

This eBook comprises papers about tribology, which is the study of the interactions between surfaces in relative motion. Discover various topics, including polymer/metal composites, sandwich structures, abrasive wear, compressive creep, anti-scratch additives, polymer plastics, and more!

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eBook 13: Thin Films 3: Spray Coating Experiments - Setups and Methodologies

The eBook comprises papers covering various topics, including the fabrication of multilayer dielectric elastomer actuators in a scalable manner, thick polymer films possessing anti-fog, self-healing, and UV-protection properties, and the enhancement of the properties of electrodeposited copper foils by using composite additives.

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Compendium 2: Geoscience | Corrosion | Particles | Additive Manufacturing: Metallurgy, Cut Analysis & Porosity

We are delighted to present to you our 2nd Advanced Optical Metrology compendium. This collection includes a searchable database of optical metrology papers, a repository of teaching materials, and instructions on how to publish scientific achievements.

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eBook 12: Additive Manufacturing: Metallurgy, Cut Analysis & Porosity

In industry, sector after sector is moving away from conventional production methods to additive manufacturing, a technology that has been recommended for substantial research investment.

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eBook 11: Particles: Impact on Biological Systems and the Environment

This eBook is dedicated to the research of David Wertheim, Professor at Kingston University London. In collaboration with various groups, Prof. Wertheim is using confocal microscopy to analyse the impact of different types of particles on human health and the environment.

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eBook 10: Particles: Unique Properties, Uncountable Applications

Nano- and microparticles are distinctive materials with enormous technological and scientific value. They found application in energy, medical, and environmental fields to name just a few.

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eBook 9: Corrosion: Advanced Materials and Test Methods

Today, the demands on materials’ corrosion resistance are increasing to improve operational reliability and extend product life. This eBook highlights recent test methods for the analysis of corrosion behavior of different alloys.

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eBook 8: Geoscience: The Unseen Beauty of Sand

In this eBook you can find images of fascinating sand grains collected from places around the world and examined with a digital microscope. Which one of the twelve astonishing sorts of grains is your favorite?

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eBook 7: X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Analysis for Geoscience

In this eBook you can find recent articles on the use of portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) in combination with other methods for the characterization of the geochemistry of soils and sediments.

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Compendium: Manufacturing and Inspection of Advanced Materials

This free eBook covers the evolving fields of additive manufacturing, thin films, electronics, surface roughness, and composites. In more than 20 article digests, you can learn about the recent developments in the manufacturing and inspection of novel materials using confocal laser scanning microscopy together with other analytical techniques.

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eBook 6: Composites

In this eBook, recent studies on the development of novel composite materials and the application of confocal laser-scanning microscopy as well as other methods to analyze their surface morphology are presented.

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eBook 5: Electronics

In the fifth eBook of the Advanced Optical Metrology series, state-of-the-art methods of the synthesis and characterization of materials for energy conversion and storage are presented. Learn more about advances in the fields of photovoltaics, supercapacitors, and many more topics in the field of research and development of sustainable energy materials.

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eBook 4: Roughness

Surface roughness has critical implications for the properties and function of materials. Thus, using surface metrology to characterize surface roughness provides important information in describing material morphology. This eBook presents a selection of current methods and applications in this expanding field of research.

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eBook 3: Thin Film Metrology Part 2

Part two of the eBooks on Thin Film Metrology is focused on the manufacturing and characterization of materials for flexible electronics.

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eBook 2: Thin Film Metrology

In this 43-page eBook, an overview on the use of laser scanning confocal microscopy in materials science is followed by three recent articles on the fabrication, characterization and applications of thin films.

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eBook 1: Additive Manufacturing

This eBook is focused on state-of-the-art methods of the fabrication and characterization of functional materials. After a comprehensive introduction, four digest versions of recent research articles showcase the latest advances in the field of additive manufacturing.