edited by Yury Gogotsi
Nanomaterials Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of nanomaterials.
Features:
- Provides the most comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of nanomaterials available in a single dedicated volume
- Discusses advances in drug delivery systems
- Examines diverse applications including nano's impact on machine tools, field-emission displays, and bioimplants
- Includes extensive references that points the way to further detailed studies of every topic presented
Contents
Introduction to Nanoscale Materials and Nanoparticles
- Materials Science at the Nanoscale
- Perspectives on the Science and Technology of Nanoparticle Synthesis
Carbon Materials
- Fullerenes and Their Derivatives
- Carbon Nanotubes: Structure and Properties
- Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes
- Graphite Whiskers, Cones and Polyhedral Crystals
- Nanocrystalline Diamond
- Carbide-Derived Carbon
Semiconductors and Ceramics
- Semiconductor and Functional Oxide Nanorods and Nanobelts
- Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-Like Materials of Metal Dichalcogenide and Related Layered Compounds
- Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Synthesis and Structure
- Sintering of Nanoceramics
- Nanolayered or Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids
- Nanocrystalline High-Melting Point Carbide, Borides, and Nitrides
- Nanostructured Oxide Superconductors
- Electrochemical Deposition of Nanostructured Metals
- Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Metals
- Grain Boundaries in Nanometals
Organic and Biological Materials
- Nanofiber Technology
- Nanotubes in Multifunctional Polymer Nanocomposites
- Nanoporous Polymers - Design and Applications
- Nanotechnology and Biomaterials
Applications of Nanomaterials
- Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
- Nanostructured Materials for Field Emission Devices
- Tribology and Applications of Nanostructured Materials and Coatings
- Nanotextured Carbons for Electrochemical Energy Storage
- Low Dimensional Thermoelectricity
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