Polymer Materials in Sensors, Actuators and Energy Conversion

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910619463003321
• Autore: Wang Jung-Chang
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022
• ISBN: 3-0365-5429-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (208 p.)
• Soggetti: Research & information: general; Physics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Polymer-based materials applications in sensors, actuators, and energy conversion play a key role in recently developing areas of smart materials and electronic devices. These areas cover the synthesis, structures, and properties of polymers and composites, including energy-harvesting devices and energy-storage devices for electromechanical (electrical to mechanical energy conversion) and magneto-mechanical (magnetic to mechanical energy conversion), light-emitting devices, and electrically driving sensors. Therefore, the modulation of polymer-based materials and devices for controlling the detection, actuation, and energy with functionalized relative device can be achieved with the present reprint, comprising 12 chapters.This reprint is principally concerned with the topic of materials of materials, especially polymers. The contents not only involve essential information but also possess many novel academic applications in the fields. This Special Issue's title is "Polymer Materials in Sensors, Actuators and Energy Conversion" and covers the research field of polymers .Finally, I am very proud of my dear wife Winnie, son Vincent, and daughter Ruby. I thank them for supporting me in finishing the reprint. The reprint, involving 2 reviews and 10 regular papers, has been accomplished, and I am deeply thankful to all the authors for their assistance in producing a reprint with considerable number of chapters. I also hope that readers can achieve some useful understanding of ; polymer materials in sensors, actuators, and energy conversion, and that that they will be employed by scientists and researchers.

A Great Man's Friendship : Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Mary, Marchioness of Salisbury, 1850-1852

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910157756803321
• Autore: Wellington The Duke of
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-78720-303-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BurghclereLady
• Soggetti: English letters; Nineteenth century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1927 and edited by Lady Winifred Anne Henrietta Christiana (Herbert) Burghclere, this book is a collection of the Duke of Wellington's letters to one of his regular correspondents and friend, Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury. The letters in this volume cover the years 1850-1852--the last two years of the Duke of Wellington's life. It ends with the Duke's final note dated September 13, 1952, the eve of his death."The Duke's actions were sometimes mistaken, his judgments sometimes faulty, but the advocatus diaboli can find nothing to challenge in the limpid sincerity of his selfless motives. In these letters, too, the man's kindliness, the "good nature" he proclaimed as so important an ingredient, even in public affairs, is markedly apparent."It is also an illustration of the force of willpower to see an octogenarian able to put through the business which every day brought him. He might grumble that "every animal but the Duke of Wellington is allowed a rest," but the myriad tasks, the countless courtesies and kindnesses, were achieved largely by his ; lifelong system "to do the business of the day in the day."It is therefore to be hoped that the perusal of these letters will give their readers a more intimate acquaintance with one whose whole career and character must be a source of pride to those of his own race."Illustrated with Portraits.