Nanotechnology

This brief explores recent progress in the area of polysaccharides and their composites and nanocomposites.

Bioremediation refers to the clean-up of pollution in soil, groundwater, surface water, and air using typically microbiological processes.

This book has been assembled with the hope of being an authoritative, comprehensive, conceptually sound and highly informative compilation of recent advances describing the concepts of bioengineering in the field of microbiology.

This book is the first to focus specifically on cancer nanotheranostics.

Reviews in Fluorescence 2017, the tenth volume of the book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of fluorescence and closely related disciplines, such as fluorescence based plasmonics.

This book gives an overview of recent developments in the synthesis of macromolecules for water purification applications.

This brief explores polysaccharides, the most abundant family of naturally occurring polymers, and explains how they have gained considerable attention in recent decades as a source of innovative bio-based materials.

This book represents a significant advance in our understanding of the synthesis and properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials.

This book presents synthesis techniques for the preparation of low-dimensional nanomaterials including 0D (quantum dots), 1D (nanowires, nanotubes) and 2D (thin films, few layers), as well as their potential applications in nanoelectronic systems.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behaviour.

This book presents a thorough discussion of the physics, biology, chemistry and medicinal science behind a new and important area of materials science and engineering: polymer nanocomposites.

Les nanotechnologies recouvrent désormais un spectre très large d’activités fort différentes qui vont de l’électronique dernier cri aux nouvelles biotechnologies en passant par la conception de matériaux dits « intelligents ».

"e;Nanoparticles in Modern Neurological Treatment"e; provides a comprehensive exploration of the promising field of nanoparticles and their applications in neurology.

The must-read summary of Jack Uldrich and Deb Newberry's book: "e;The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: Nanotechnology and the Future of Big Business"e;.

Nanotechnology progresses its concerts and suitability by improving its effectiveness, security and also reducing the impact and risk.

Nanofabrication: Principles, Capabilities, and Limits provides a practical guide to nanofabrication technologies and processes.

This book covers environmental and economic waste treatment with resource recovery strategies covering mining, urban, agricultural, industrial, and sewage wastes.

At the time of the introduction of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) concept many scenarios where considered to be visionary or even science fiction.

The book provides an up-to-date overview of the fast growing area of Raman spectroscopy.

This book throws light on the various methods of preparation and characterization of liposomes.

Molecular self-assembly has been exploited by nature for developing the higher functional macromolecular structures of both the genome and proteome.

The focus of this book lies at the meeting point of electromagnetic waveguides and photonic crystals.

Nanofluids provides insight to the mathematical, numerical, and experimental methodologies of the industrial application of nanofluids.

The Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) concept represents an attempt to break away from the traditional three-terminal device paradigm that has dominated digital computation.

Gold has traditionally been regarded as inactive as a catalytic metal.

This volume is concerned with functional nanomaterials: materials containing specific, predictable nanostructure whose chemical composition or interfacial structure enable them to perform a specific job - destroy, sequester or detect some material that constitutes an environmental threat.

Written by a leading nanobiologist actively involved at the forefront of the field both as a researcher and an educator, this book takes the reader from the fundamentals of nanobiology to the most advanced applications.

This volume takes a much needed multiphysical approach to the numerical and experimental evaluation of the mechanical properties of MEMS and NEMS.

Materials development has reached a point where it is difficult for a single material to satisfy the needs of sophisticated applications in the modern world.

This book outlines a selection of exciting advances currently being made worldwide in the field of modern engineering at the nanometer scale.

Combining engineering and medicine research projects with biological applications, the contributions in this volume constitute the efforts of both distinguished scientists and young investigators in various fields of biomedical engineering at Tohoku University, one of Japan's leading scientific research universities.

This novel book is the first comprehensive text on dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), which has emerged over the past two decades as one of the most powerful new developments in many-body physics.

Quantum dot nano structures are interesting for applications in information technology and play a growing role in data storage, medical and biological applications.

This book reviews research on single-electron devices and circuits in silicon.

Catalyst technologies account for over $1 trillion of revenue in the U.

This book is concerned with functional nanomaterials, materials containing specific, predictable nanostructures whose chemical composition, or interfacial structure enables them to perform a specific job: to destroy, sequester, or detect some material that constitutes an environmental threat.

The outstanding properties of ceramics have guaranteed their use for millennia and they remain vitally important in modern technology.

Photonic crystal nanostructures, whose photonic properties can be tuned in response to external stimuli, are desired for a wide range of applications in colour displays, biological and chemical sensors, and inks and paints.

Research into polymer nanofibers has increased significantly over the last decade, prompting the need for a comprehensive monograph examining the subject as knowledge of their properties and potential applications has increased.

Understanding the chemistry behind works of art and heritage materials presents an opportunity to apply scientific techniques to their conservation and restoration.

The exceptional mechanical, optical, surface and biocompatibility properties of nanodiamond have gained it much interest.

Lab-on-a-chip devices for point of care diagnostics have been present in clinics for several years now.

The inner architecture of a material can have an astonishing effect on its overall properties and is vital to understand when designing new materials.

Chemically-modified carbon nanotubes (CNTs) exhibit a wide range of physical and chemical properties which makes them an attractive starting material for the preparation of super-strong and highly-conductive fibres and films.

Graphene is an emerging material for generating polymer nanocomposites.

Electrospinning techniques are used to produce novel nanoscale fibrous materials used in a diverse range of applications.

The expanding field of nanotechnology is now one of the most promising areas of science.

This timely publication bridges and presents the latest trends and updates in three hot topics of current and future society: nanomaterials, energy and environment.

This book provides a critical overview of the advances being made towards overcoming biological barriers through the contribution of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.

High-surface-area materials have recently attracted significant interest due to potential applications in various fields such as electrochemistry and catalysis, gas-phase catalysis, optics, sensors and actuators, energy harvesting and storage.