Material Substructures in Complex Bodies

Stringent industrial requirements for sophisticated performance and circumstantial control of microdevices or nanotechnology manufacturing, and other types of machinery. The adjective 'complex' indicates that the sub-structures are affected by gross mechanical behavior in a prominent way. Examples are liquid crystals, quasi-periodic alloys, polymeric bodies, spin glasses, magnetostrictive materials and ferroelectrics, suspensions, and other liquids with gas bubbles, polarized fluids, etc.

The mechanical behavior of a complex body in this book is a result of the macroscopic- to the nano-world. The chapters composing this book.

Contributors are Carlo Cercignani, Gianfranco Capriz, Pierre Degond, Antonio Fasano, Harley T. Johnson, Sukka Jun, Krishna Kannan, Wing Kam Liu, Alberto Mancini, Paolo Maria Mariano, Ingo Müller, Kumbakonan R. Rajagopal, Jan Jerzy Slawianowski.

The book will be a useful tool for researchers and students working on the basic mathematical and physical problems.

* Leading scientific competence of contributors.
* Clear writing style linking solutions and open problems.
* Suggestions for direct technological applications and new research work.
* Mathematical models for nanotechnology devices.

1. Preface
2. Asymptotic Continuum Models for Plasmas and Disparate Mass Gaseous Binary Mixtures (P. Degond)
3. Microscopic Foundations of the Mechanics of Gases and Granular Materials (C. Carcignani)
4. Quantization of Affine Bodies. Theory and Applications in Mechanics of Structured Media (JJ Slawianowski)
5. Moving Least-Square Basis for the Band-Structure Calculations of Natural and Artificial Crystals (S. Jun, WK Liu)
6. Modeling Ziegler-Natta Polymerization in High Pressure Reactors (A. Fasano et al .)
7. Psuedofluids (G. Capriz)
8. A Thermodynamic Framework Incorporating the Molten Polymers (K. Kannan, KR Rajagopal)
9. Effects of Stress on Formation and Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures (HT Johnson)
10. Continua with Spin Structure (PM Mariano)