Nanostructures category: 408 books
Water Droplets to Nanotechnology
A Journey Through Self-Assembly
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The ability of nanostructures to organize into complex arrangements leads to unique materials with valuable applications. Self-assembly is therefore a key concept for nanotechnology, but it can be quite a complex and difficult subject to approach. Water Droplets to Nanotechnology gives a simple and...
Nanomaterials and Nanoarchitectures
A Complex Review of Current Hot Topics and their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The current work consists of nine contributions describing recent progress in the interdisciplinary of Nanoscience, which involves physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medicine and one essay outlining some important historical and socioeconomic factors pertaining to recent developments in...
Theory of Quantum Transport at Nanoscale
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book is an introduction to a rapidly developing field of modern theoretical physics – the theory of quantum transport at nanoscale. The theoretical methods considered in the book are in the basis of our understanding of charge, spin and heat transport in nanostructures and nanostructured materials...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
This comprehensive handbook has become the definitive reference work in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and this 4th edition incorporates a number of recent new developments.
It integrates nanofabrication, nanomaterials, nanodevices, nanomechanics, nanotribology, materials science,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This book focuses on several areas of intense topical interest related to applied spectroscopy and the science of nanomaterials. The eleven chapters in the book cover the following areas of interest relating to applied spectroscopy and nanoscience:
· Raman spectroscopic characterization,...
Noble Metal Nanoparticles
Preparation, Composite Nanostructures, Biodecoration and Collective Properties
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book introduces the reader the chemistry of reaction approaches by which noble metal nanoparticles are synthesized, including synthetic approaches using the Brust–Schiffrin method , a high-temperature solution-phase synthesis, polymer and biological entities, weak and strong reducing and capping...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This book, now in its second edition, introduces readers to quantum rings as a special class of modern high-tech material structures at the nanoscale. It deals, in particular, with their formation by means of molecular beam epitaxy and droplet epitaxy of semiconductors, and their topology-driven electronic,...
by Ying Fu
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The science and technology relating to nanostructures continues to receive significant attention for its applications to various fields including microelectronics, nanophotonics, and biotechnology.
This book describes the basic quantum mechanical principles underlining this fast developing field.
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Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials and Applications
Nano Detection, Drug/Gene Delivery, Medical Diagnosis and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book intends to provide an up-to-date information in the field of nanobiomedicine. The focus of the book is on the basic concepts and recent developments in the field of nanotechnology. This book covers a broad spectrum of nanomaterials processing, structural characteristics, and related properties...
Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
This book presents the latest developments in noncontact atomic force microscopy. It deals with the following outstanding functions and applications that have been obtained with atomic resolution after the publication of volume 2: (1) Pauli repulsive force imaging of molecular structure, (2) Applications...
Endohedral Fullerenes
From Fundamentals to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Endohedral fullerenes represent a novel family of carbon nanostructures, which are characterized by a robust fullerene cage with atoms, ions, or clusters trapped in its interior. Since the first separation of the endohedral metallofullerene La@C82 in 1991, a large variety of endohedral structures...
by Sulabha K. Kulkarni
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Given the rapid advances in the field, this book offers an up-to-date introduction to nanomaterials and nanotechnology. Though condensed into a relatively small volume, it spans the whole range of multidisciplinary topics related to nanotechnology. Starting with the basic concepts of quantum...
The Visioneers
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating...
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to...