Micro- and Nano-Bionic Surfaces: Biomimetics, Interface Energy Field Effects, and Applications synthesizes the latest research in bio-inspired surfaces and devices for tactile and flow field perception. The book provides solutions to common problems related to flow field/tactile perception, intelligent MEMS sensors, smart materials, material removal methods, cell/particle control methods, and micro-nano robot technology. With a heavy emphasis on applications throughout, the book starts by ...

This two-volume set CCIS 2264 and CCIS 2265 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, BlockSys 2024, held in Hangzhou, China, during July 12–14, 2024.The 34 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Blockchain and Data Mining; Data Security and Anomaly Detection; Blockchain Perform...

This two-volume set CCIS 2264 and CCIS 2265 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, BlockSys 2024, held in Hangzhou, China, during July 12–14, 2024.The 34 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Blockchain and Data Mining; Data Security and Anomaly Detection; Blockchain Perform...

This book focuses on conducting a comprehensive analysis of blockchain scalability serving large-scale application scenarios, from the “what, why, how” three perspectives, layer by layer. Gathering the latest state-of-the-art research advances in the area of key issues and technologies for blockchain scalability, it also presents some special and exciting insights on the existing and future blockchain scalability.Despite blockchain’s merits of decentralization, immutability, non-re...