Nanotechnology

Due to the development of microscale fabrication methods, microlenses are being used more and more in many unique applications, such as artificial implementations of compound eyes, optical communications, and labs-on-chips.

When microelectronic devices replaced vacuum tubes, it marked a revolution in electronics that opened the way to the computer age.

This book chronicles the role of advanced nanomaterials and surface engineering technologies in the development of point-of-care biosensors for health and environmental monitoring.

This book discusses various aspects of graphene fictionalization strategies from inorganic oxides and organic moieties including preparation, design, and characterization of functionalization material and its applications.

"e;Molecular Materials with Specific Interactions: Modeling and Design"e; has a very interdisciplinary character and is intended to provide basic information as well as the details of theory and examples of its application to experimentalists and theoreticians interested in modeling molecular properties and putting into practice rational design of new materials.

Tomorrow's nanoscientist will have a truly interdisciplinary and nano-centric education, rather than, for example, a degree in chemistry with a specialization in nanoscience.

Even in today's electronic information age, traditional paper is a multi-purpose product that continues to be indispensable to people's daily work and lives.

This book enlightens readers on the basic surface properties and distance-dependent intersurface forces one must understand to obtain even simple data from an atomic force microscope (AFM).

Nanotechnology is the result of the continuing technological trend toward device miniaturization and the characterization, manipulation, and fine control of structure and function at diminishing length scales.

The range of nanomaterial applications has expanded recently from catalysis, electronics, and filtration to therapeutics, diagnostics, agriculture, and food because of unique properties and potentials of different nanoparticles and nanomaterials.

"e;a detailed, cognizant account of numerous crucial aspects of optical microring resonators"e; - Amr S.

Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices focuses on the future direction of semiconductor and emerging nanoscale device technology.

In the last few years there has been significant progress in the development of microfluidics and nanofluidics at the application as well as at the fundamental and simulation levels.

This reference is dedicated to the problem of time-temperature stability of amorphous (non-crystalline) metal alloys with strongly nonequilibrium structure and unique physical and mechanical properties that are obtained by quenching from the melt at a rate that exceeds one millions of degrees c.

Covering fabrication, characterization, and applications nanofiltration (NF) membranes, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of NF membrane technology over the past decade.

This book delves into the burgeoning field of nano-biomaterials and their application in targeted drug delivery across various therapeutic domains.

This book includes the synthesis, analysis and characterization of nanomaterials that are an important ingredient in nanotechnologies.

Advances in nanotechnology offer great new promise in new multifunctional systems that experts predict to be a major economic force within the next decade.

Our civilization owes its most significant milestones to our use of materials.

Nanotechnology & Society is a collection of sixteen papers focused on the most urgent issues arising from nanotechnology today and in the near future.

As the impact and importance of nanotechnology continues to grow, nanomedicine and biotechnology have become areas of increased development.

This book provides a first integrated view of nanophotonics and plasmonics, covering the use of dielectric, semiconductor, and metal nanostructures to manipulate light at the nanometer scale.

Although the theory and principles of optical waveguides have been established for more than a century, the technologies have only been realized in recent decades.

Understanding the Basics of Nanoindentation and Why It Is ImportantContact damage induced brittle fracture is a common problem in the field of brittle solids.

This book describes the development of three dimensional electroactive fibres using a novel coaxial wet-spinning approach from organic conductors in combination with non-conducting hydrogel polymers.

This issue contains 17 peer-reviewed (invited and contributed) papers covering various aspects and the latest developments related to processing, modeling and manufacturing technologies of nanoscaled materials including inorganic-organic nanocomposites, nanowire-based sensors, new generation photovoltaic cells, self-assembly of nanostructures, functional nanostructures for cell tracking and heterostructures.

Micelles are prevalent in naturally occurring and biological catalytic reactions.

This unique book is the only one to discuss various new techniques developed to enhance the application of nanoparticulate drug delivery systems using surface modification of nanoparticles.

Offering a comprehensive view of water-treatment technologies, Nanomaterials for Water Treatment and Remediation explores recent developments in the use of advanced nanomaterials (ANMs) for water treatment and remediation.

The major topical and societal issues of energy transition and environmental conservation have benefited from the contribution of nanotechnologies and nanomaterials.

Solid State Gas Sensing offers insight into the principles, applications, and new trends in gas sensor technology.

Tutorial lectures given by world-renowned researchers have become one of the important traditions of the Nano and Giga Challenges (NGC) conference series.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of ZnO-nano carbon core shell hybrid issues.

Air pollution related to the release of industrial toxic gases, represents one of the main concerns of our modern world owing to its detrimental effect on the environment.

Graphene Bioelectronics covers the expending field of graphene biomaterials, a wide span of biotechnological breakthroughs, opportunities, possibilities and challenges.

Drug delivery systems and pharmaceutical nanocarriers that respond to different types of stimuli, such as internal ones, intrinsic for the pathological area (changes in pH, temperature, redox condition, activity of certain enzymes), or external, artificially applied (magnetic field, ultrasound, various irradiations), represent an important and continuously growing area of research.

Is Bigger Always Better?

This book details how artificial intelligence and other informatic methods can be applied to the field of tribology.

This important new book provides the fundamental understanding of the peptide and protein drug delivery systems with a special focus on their nanotechnology applications.

A comprehensive textbook on nanoelectronics covering the underlying physics, nanostructures, nanomaterials and nanodevices.

This book explores eco-cosmeceuticals and offers a comprehensive overview of the latest sustainable and environmentally friendly innovations in cosmetic science.

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science.

This book reviews the use of nano-based drug delivery systems and biomaterials to enhance the immune system against infectious diseases.

This book covers the remarkable progress in the field of electrospun nanofibrous materials synthesis that has been made in recent years for clean water production.

Until the late 20th century, computational studies of biomolecules and nanomaterials had considered the two subjects separately.

This book highlights the role of nanotechnology concepts in the management of COVID-19 pandemic.

This book summarizes the state of the art in the theoretical modeling of inorganic nanostructures.

Meta-Nanotubes are a new generation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which result from the chemical transformation of regular CNTs and their subsequent combination with foreign materials (atoms, molecules, chemical groups, nanocrystals) by various ways such as functionalisation, doping, filling, and substitution.

Written by leading experts in this field, this proceedings volume originates from a workshop held in Toulouse on March 1-2, 2023, organized by the ESIM European project (Energy Storage Inside Molecule(s)).

Size Up the Short- and Long-Term Effects of GrapheneThe Graphene Science Handbook is a six-volume set that describes graphene's special structural, electrical, and chemical properties.