Intelligence in a Small Materials World

Preface

Chapter 1: Philosophy

• Welcome to IPPM’03-—Nanotechnology: Do Good Things Really Come in Small Packages?
• On the Mechanics of Morals
• Emergence and Complex Systems: Towards New Practices for Industrial Automation

PART 1: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOFT COMPUTING

Chapter 2: Fuzzy Systems

• On Kernel-Based Fuzzy Cluster Loading
• Fuzzy Evolutionary Approach to Determination of Dietary Composition for Diabetics
• Intelligent Information Technology: From Autonomic to Autonomous Systems
• Design of a Fuzzy Controller for a Microwave Monomode Cavity for Soot Trap Filter Regeneration
• Optimal Operating Parameters in Fuzzy-Assisted Microwave Removal of Carbon Particulate from Ceramic Filters
• Fuzzy Probability for Modelling Particle Preparation Processes
• Prediction of Charpy Impact Properties Using Fuzzy Modelling on Ship Structural Steels

Chapter 3: Artificial Neural Networks

• Artificial Intelligence in Large-Scale Simulations of Materials
• Application of an Artificial Neural Network to the Control of an Oxygen Converter Process
• Improving the Prediction of the Roll Separating Force in a Hot Steel Finishing Mill
• A Solution to the N-Body Problem for Particles of Non-Spherical Geometry Using Artificial Intelligence
• Distributed Backpropagation Neural Network System for Pattern Recognition Using JavaSpaces
• Eccentricity and Hardness Control in Cold Rolling Mills with a Dynamically Constructed Neural Controller

Chapter 4: Process Control and Simulation for Optimization

• Level Control Model by Numerical Fluid Dynamics Method
• H-infinity Control of Micromolecular State Transition of a Sodium Ion Channel Gating System
• Defeasible Deontic Traffic Light Control Based on a Paraconsistent Logic Program EVALPSN
• Development of an Electrorheological Bypass Damper for Railway Vehicles—Estimation of Damper Capacity from the Prototype
• A Concept for Simulation-Based Optimization of Sheet Metal Forming Processes
• Multiple Layer Control Method

Chapter 5: Intelligence in Environmental Applications

• Morphological and Morphometrical Characteristics of Ornamental Stone Airborne Dusts: Capture and Filtration
• Advanced Sampling and Characterization Techniques of Nanoparticle Products Resulting from Thermal Decomposition Processes
• Development of a Magnetically Levitated Hoisting System for Use in Underground Mines
• Bio-Nanotechnology and Phytomining: The Living Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles by Plants
• Developing a Plug to Seal Mine Openings for a Thousand Years: The Millennium Plug Project

Chapter 6: Intelligence in Energy Systems

• Multiple Sensor Surface Vibrations Analysis for Monitoring Tumbling Mill Performance
• Fracture Toughness and Surface Energies of Covalent Materials: Theoretical Estimates and Application to Comminution
• Usable Heat from Mine Waters: Coproduction of Energy and Minerals from “Mother Earth”
• Al Clusters as a Tool for Hydrogen Storage
• Theoretical Study of Clathrate Hydrates with Multiple Occupation

Chapter 7: Intelligent Instrumentation and Metrology

• Image Mining of Evanescent Microwave Data for Nondestructive Material Inspection
• Magnetohydrodynamic Stability in Pulse EMC
• Ductile Machining Phenomena of Nominally Brittle Materials at the Nanoscale
• Fractal Dimension: A New Machining Decision-Making Parameter
• EB-Reinforcement by Formation of Atomic Scale Defects in Inorganic Glasses
• Texture Observations of Ferromagnetic Shape Memory of Nanostructured Fe-Pd Alloy by Laser and Electronic Microscope
• New Advanced Diffusion Simulators for Boron Ultra-Shallow Junction
• Nano-Sensors for Gas Determination Based on Heterostructure SnO2-Si
• Electrochemical Detection of Urea Using Self-Assembled Monolayers on a Porous Silicon Substrate

Chapter 8: Intelligence in Materials Science

• Atomic Scale Simulations for Compositional Optimization
• Effects of Different Initial Conditions of Liquid Metals on Solidification Microstructures
• Combined Approach of Statistical Moment and Cluster Variation Methods for Calculation of Alloy Phase Diagrams
• Fabrication and Mechanical Properties of TiNi/Al Smart Composites
• Mechanochemical Doping to Prepare a Visible-Light Active Titania Photocatalyst
• Influence of Mean Interatomic Distance on Magnetostriction of Fe-Pd Alloy Films

Chapter 9: Intelligent Materials Processing

• Sub-Nanoscale Structure-Controlled Alloys Produced by Stabilization of Supercooled Liquid
• A Novel Method—Hot Quasi-Isostatic Pressing to Fabricate a Metallic Cellular Material Containing Polymer using an SPS System
• Consideration of AC-Component Force of Electromagnetic Stirring in the MHD Calculation
• Fabrication of Ceramic Hip Joint by Bingham Semi-Solid/Fluid Isostatic Pressing Method
• Control of Surface Layer Formed in Fe-Si-0.4mass%Mn Alloys by Annealing under Low Partial Pressure of Oxygen
• Development of a Method to Fabricate Metallic Closed Cellular Materials Containing Organics
• Bulk AxiSymmetric Forging of Magnesium Alloys

Chapter 10: Manufacturing Systems

• A Knowledge Management System for Manufacturing Design
• Promising Information Technology in the Near Future and Current Obstacles: UWB/PLC and Cyber-Security in the Broadband Age
• 3D Interactive Input System

PART 2: NANOTECHNOLOGY

Chapter 11: Fullerene Materials Science

• Novel Self-Assembled Material: Fullerenes Self-Intermixed with Phthalocyanines
• Electronic Structure of Self-Localized Excitons in a One Dimensional C60 Crystal
• A Simple Route to New 1D Nanostructures
• Structures and Intermolecular Interactions of Cocrystallites Consisting of Metal Octaethylporphyrins with Fullerene C70
• Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Foreign Atom Insertion into C60
• Formation of Radioactive Fullerenes by Using Nuclear Recoil

Chapter 12: Nano-Machines and Biological Nanotechnology

• Engineering with the Engines of Creation
• Calculation of the Characteristics of a Molecular Single-Electron Transistor with Discrete Energy Spectrum
• Electronic Transport through Benzene Molecule and DNA Base Pairs
• Realization of “Molecular Enamel Wire” Concept for Molecular Electronics
• Mechanical Properties of a Thermoelectric SMA Manipulator
• Single-Electron Tunneling in Planar Molecular Nanosystems
• Integration of Smart Materials in Si to Create Opto- and Micro-Electronic Hybrid Devices
• High Performance Thermo-Elastic Metallic Materials by Rapid Solidification and their Applications in “Smart” Medical Systems
• Systemic Evaluation for Replication Processing of DNA Double Strand as a Zippering Micro-Machine
• High Resolution Detection and Coating Method for the Functionalisation of Nanometre Separated Gold Electrodes with DNA

Chapter 13: Nanotubes

• Magnetic Properties of Doped Silicon Nanotube
• Computer Simulation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Crystals
• A Study of the Pressure Dependence of the Raman Spectrum of C60 and Single-Walled Nanotubes in Methanol-Water Mixtures

Chapter 14: Nano-Scale Surface Phenomena

• Fundamental Studies of Large Organic Molecules on Metallic Substrates by High Resolution STM
• Dielectrophoretic Manipulation of Surface-Bound DNA
• Comparative Study on Interactions of Polypeptides of Bacteriorhodopsin in the Langmuir-Blodgett Film Based on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Film
• Nano-Granular Co-Zr-O Magnetic Films Studied by Lorentz Microscopy and Electron Holography
• Electrochemomechanical Deformation of Polypyrrole Film in Complex Buffer Media
• Nano-Metallization on Surface Nano-Sized Granules of Polytetrafluoroethylene Matrix

Chapter 15: Nano-Clusters

• Cluster Expansion Method for Chemisorption Geometries
• All-Electron GW Calculations for Small Clusters
• Theoretical Study of Unimolecular Rectifying Function of a Donor-Spacer-Acceptor Structure Molecule
• Fully-Coordinated Silica Nanoclusters: Building Blocks for Novel Materials
• Reductive Selective Deposition of Ni-Zn Nanoparticles onto TiO2 Fine Particles in the Liquid Phase

Author Index
About the Editors