Design processes [[electronic resource] ] : what architects & industrial designers can teach each other about managing the design process / / edited by Wim Poelman and David Keyson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454030503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : IOS Press, 2008
• ISBN: 6612070587; 1-282-07058-4; 9786612070587; 1-4416-0550-9; 600-00-1258-6; 1-60750-387-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PoelmanW. A; KeysonDavid Victor <1962->
• Disciplina: 620.0042
• Soggetti: Engineering design - Methodology; Architectural design - Methodology; Industrial design - Methodology; Design - Methodology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Design Processes - Between academic and practice views; Visualization - Sketching is Alive and Well in this Digital Age; Project Management - Project and risk Management in architecture and industrial design; Social Complexity - Social complexity in design collaboration; Decision Making - A decision-based design approach; Technology Diffusion and Design - The metabolism of knowledge; Closing speech; Appendix 1 - Chairman's impressions; Appendix 2 - Program
• Sommario/riassunto: The script of life is for a large part written by architects and designers. This title discusses such issues as the contemporary interrelationship of industrial design and architecture and a confrontation of ; contemporary design practice in both domains with academic theory and education.

Functional Materials Based on Metal Hydrides / / Haiwen Li [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910598019403321
• Autore: Li Haiwen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 pages)
• Disciplina: 546.2
• Soggetti: Metal hydrides
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Our extreme and growing energy consumption, based on fossil fuels, has significantly increased the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which may lead to global and irreversible climate changes. We have plenty of renewable energy, e.g., sun and wind, but the fluctuations over time and geography call for a range of new ideas and, possibly, novel technologies. The most difficult challenge appears to be the development of the efficient and reliable storage of renewable energy. Hydrogen has long been considered as a potential means of energy storage; however, storage of hydrogen is also challenging. Therefore, a wide range of hydrogen-containing materials, with energy-related functions, has been discovered over the past few decades. The chemistry of hydrogen is very diverse, and so also are the new hydrides that have been discovered, not only in terms of structure and composition but also in terms of their properties. This has led to a wide range of new possible applications of metal hydrides that permeate beyond solid-state hydrogen storage. A variety of new hydrides, proposed as battery materials, has been discovered. These can exploit properties as fast ion conductors or as conversion-type electrodes with much higher potential energy capacities, compared to ; materials currently used in commercial batteries. Solar heat storage is also an area of great potential for metal hydrides, in principle offering orders of magnitude better storage performance than phase change materials. Recently, hydrides with optical and superconducting properties have also been investigated. This Special Issue of Inorganics, entitled "Functional Materials Based on Metal Hydrides", is dedicated to the full range of emerging electronic, photonic, and energy-related, inorganic, hydrogen-containing materials.