Special Issue “Composite Materials in Design Processes”

Special Issue: Antibacterial Materials and Coatings.

Krasimir Vasilev 1,2,*, Alex Cavallaro 2 and Peter Zilm 3 1 School of Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5095, Australia 2 Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5095, Australia; [email protected] 3 Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; [email protected] * Correspondenc...

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Special Issue on Proton Transfer Processes

It is well established that the hydrogen bond plays crucial role in many areas of physical, chemical and biological phenomena. The relevant proton transfer reactions are the simplest but very important in many chemical problems as well as in some biological processes. It appears that the low-barrier hydrogen bond (LBHB) for this displacement may play fundamental role in stabilizing intermediate...

Special issue: Uncertainties in geometric design

In computing, it is a basic fact that, owing to the finiteness in representation, errors occur and they accumulate. In geometric computing, the 'logic' for performing set operations is not necessarily the classical binary one. How, then, does one ensure a robust process, if not error-free results? Physically, uncertainty in geometric data manifests itself in metrological studies in the small, a...

Materials in Participatory Design Processes

This dissertation presents three years of academic inquiry into the question of what role materials play in interaction design and participatory design processes. The dissertation aims at developing conceptual tools, based on Dewey’s pragmatism, for understanding how materials aid design reflection. It has been developed using a research-through-design approach in which the author has conducted...