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Organic solar cells: materials design, technology and commercialization: edited by Liming Ding, Weinheim, Wiley, 2022, 720 pp., $156.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-527-83366-5. A complete and complex explanation of OSC is very useful for researchers who wish to develop solar cell technology. Organic Solar Cells (OSC) in recent years have attracted the attention of academia and industry to produce devices that have the advantages of being low cost, lightweight, flexible, and stable. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 6 describes the latest developments in the design and fabrication of transition metal oxide nanostructures as electrodes for supercapacitors. Chapters 1-5 describe the newly developed flexible supercapacitor designs with various electrode material designs and structures. Furthermore, the use of a flexible supercapacitor microstructure is described in chapters 9-11 for fabrication using the printed technique. [Extracted from the article]

Chapters 1 to 6 describe the synthesis methods that can be used for metal oxides, the necessary synthesis strategies, the nanoscale coupling of metal oxides with other nanomaterials, and the use of computational modeling to collect microscopic information of nano-oxide materials. Recently, nano-scale metal oxide materials have been in great demand by industrial technology and have become interesting objects for research because they are capable of displaying intelligent properties and specific functions. Tailored functional oxide nanomaterials: from design to multi-purpose applications: edited by Chiara Maccato and Davide Barica, Weinheim, Wiley, 2022, 512 pp., $156.35 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-52734-759-9. [Extracted from the article]

The later section is the core part of the book, about brain-bladder axis in tissue growth and remodelling. The brain-bladder axis in tissue growth and remodelling: by Roustem N. Miftahof and Christian J. Cyron, Bristol, IOP Publishing, 2021, 175 pp., $190 (hardback), $159 (ebook), ISBN 9780750335676. Applying a holistic approach, it provides novel methods to define mathematically and simulate computationally growth and remodelling of the brain-bladder axis. [Extracted from the article]

We are very impressed with this book since Meirovitch has successfully developed novel methodologies in computer simulation for generating polymer chains, extracting the absolute entropy from Monte Carlo samples and calculating free energy of ligand-protein binding. Structural biology is an important component of drug discovery in focuses on understanding polymers and biological macromolecules. Just as we expected, this book comes as a textbook that covers the application of new methodologies in computer simulation based on the basic concept of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. [Extracted from the article]

However, a textbook that deals with both the atomistic and continuum aspects of elasticity and crystalline defects is lacking. Having said that, as Sutton indicates in his Preface of the book, metal physics which dealt with crystalline defects has become unfashionable again - at least in the physics departments. This book is an attempt to make the study of crystalline defects appealing to physicists. [Extracted from the article]

The book by Anand and Govindjee deals with the continuum mechanics of solids in a comprehensive manner - making it an ideal textbook to learn from and an ideal reference to consult. Continuum mechanics of solids: by Lallit Anand and Sanjay Govindjee, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2020, 736 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198864721. Continuum mechanics deals with the mechanics of solids and fluids. [Extracted from the article]