Bøger af Shrikaant Kulkarni

As the global community confronts challenges in energy, environment, health, agriculture, industry, and construction, the significance of sustainable materials becomes paramount. The looming specter of resource depletion necessitates a paradigm shift, urging researchers and engineers to anticipate future needs and forge materials that align with evolving requirements. Next Generation Materials for Sustainable Engineering underscores the urgency of conserving resources and provides a blueprint for achieving this through judicious and sustainable use. From polymers to alloys, nanocomposites to biomaterials, this book traverses the expansive landscape of materials, deciphering their structures and properties with an eye toward sustainability. The relentless pursuit of innovation in synthesis protocols takes center stage, unveiling pathways to creating novel materials. The chapters dedicated to specific material applications, such as spintronics, nanowires, phase change materials, and nanocomposites, offer a detailed panorama of the latest advancements. This book bridges the gap between theoretical understanding and practical applications by exploring materials for renewable energy, electronic devices, artificial photosynthesis, lithium-sulfur batteries, supercapacitors, and biomedical applications. The book serves as a beacon for academicians, researchers, and material scientists, guiding them through state-of-the-art developments, emerging trends, and challenges in material science and engineering.

Heterocyclic compounds are vital in synthetic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and materials science. The concept of S-heterocyclic compounds revolves around organic compounds that contain heterocyclic rings, and sulfur (S) is one of the heteroatoms within the ring structure. S-enabled heterocycles have emerged as one of the key classes of heterocycles and have attracted tremendous attention attributed to their identity as 'privileged pharmacological structures' across natural products and highly active pharmaceutical agents. This edited volume reports the latest developments in practical and selective reactions and methods and provides details of the structural diversity of heterocycles. Together, the chapters provide a comprehensive view of the diversity of methods, properties, and the variety of applications in the construction of S-heterocycles. Divided into four parts, the book covers in part one the chemistry, synthesis pathways, property profile, and applications of thiazoles, and includes five chapters. Part two details thiadiazoles and part three thiopyrans, thiazine, and thiazepine. Lastly, part four focuses on thiophenes. This volume will be of immense help to academicians, researchers, and students pursuing research and looking at the future of heterocyclic chemistry.

Edge computational intelligence is an interface between edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This interfacing represents a paradigm shift in the world of work by enabling a broad application areas and customer-friendly solutions. Edge computational intelligence technologies are just in their infancy. Edge Computational Intelligence for AI-Enabled IoT Systems looks at the trends and advances in edge computing and edge AI, the services rendered by them, related security and privacy issues, training algorithms, architectures, and sustainable AI-enabled IoT systems.Together, these technologies benefit from ultra-low latency, faster response times, lower bandwidth costs and resilience from network failure, and the book explains the advantages of systems and applications using intelligent IoT devices that are at the edge of a network and close to users. It explains how to make most of edge and cloud computing as complementary technologies or used in isolation for extensive and widespread applications. The advancement in IoT devices, networking facilities, parallel computation and 5G, and robust infrastructure for generalized machine learning have made it possible to employ edge computational intelligence in diverse areas and in diverse ways.The book begins with chapters that cover Edge AI services on offer as compared to conventional systems. These are followed by chapters that discuss security and privacy issues encountered during the implementation and execution of edge AI and computing services The book concludes with chapters looking at applications spread across different areas of edge AI and edge computing and also at the role of computational intelligence in AI-driven IoT systems.

Renewable Materials and Green Technology Products: Environmental and Safety Aspects looks at the design, manufacture, and use of efficient, effective, safe, and more environmentally benign chemical products and processes. It includes a broad range of application-based solutions to the development of renewable materials and green technology. The latest trends in the green synthesis and properties of CNs are presented in the first chapter of this book for generating social awareness about sustainable developments. The book goes on to highlight the naissance and progressive trail of microwave-assisted synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles, for a clean and green technology tool. Chapters discuss green technological alternatives for the global abatement of air pollution, effective use and treatment of water and wastewater, renewable power generation from solar PV cells, carbon-based nanomaterials synthesized using green protocol for sustainable development, green technologies that help to achieve economic development without harming the environment, technical solutions to cut down the quantum of N losses, conventional processing techniques in developing the bionanocomposites as the biocatalyst, and more.

The book gives an insight into the theoretical background, conceptual understanding, latest developments, and applications in the field of pharmaceuticals in general and drug design, discovery, biosystems, and biomedical and drug delivery technologies in particular. Knowledge is drawn from various disciplines such as Chemistry, Biology, Material Science and Engineering, Statistics, Biomedicine, and Genetics . A host of applications like bio-imaging, novel biological agents, testing, characterization and validation of drugs, computer-based models in drug design, and application of statistical tools in data analysis, design, and development of drug delivery systems, and ecosystems are dealt with in detail. The said book undoubtedly confirms the requirements of the postgraduate students, research scholars, academicians, scientists, and researchers from the academia, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical engineering domain. The book covers a conceptual understanding of the exploration of drugs in tandem with intended uses, sound ecosystem development, and carriers for drug and supplement delivery.