Molecular Building Blocks for Nanotechnology: From Diamondoids to Nanoscale Materials and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780387399379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 426 str.

G. Ali Mansoori; Thomas F. George; Lahsen Assoufid

Opis

This book takes a "bottom-up" approach, beginning with atoms and molecules - molecular building blocks - and assembling them to build nanostructured materials. Coverage includes Carbon Nanotubes, Nanowires, and Diamondoids. The applications presented here will enable practitioners to design and build nanometer-scale systems. These concepts have far-reaching implications: from mechanical to chemical processes, from electronic components to ultra-fine sensors, from medicine to energy, and from pharmaceuticals to agriculture and food.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the state of the art research and developments in the ongoing 'bottom-up' nanoscience and nanotechnology. ... various readers with different backgrounds, physicists, chemists, biologists, materials scientists, and even medical doctors, will find some interesting and valuable information. Hence, the book will find a place in any multidisciplinary library. It will also be very useful to a scientist who has to write a research proposal in the nano-domain ... ." (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Physicalia, Vol. 30 (2), 2008)

Spis treści

Introduction.- Thermodynamic properties of diamondoids.- Development of composite materials based on improved nanodiamonds.- Diamondoids as molecular building blocks.- Surface modification and application of functionalized polymer nanofibers.- Zinc oxide nanorod arrays: properties and hydrothermal synthesis.- Nanoparticles, nanorods and other nanostructures assembled on inert substrates.- Thermal properties of carbon nanotubes.- Chemical vapor deposition of organized architectures of carbon nanotubes for applications.- Online size characterization of nanofibers and nanotubes.- Theoretical investigations in retinal and cubane.- Polyhedral heteroborane clusters for nanotechnology.- Squeezing germanium nanostructures.- Nanoengineered biomimetic bone-building blocks.- Use of nanoparticles as building blocks for bio-applications.- Polymer nanofibers for biosensors applications.- High pressure synthesis of carbon nanostructured superhand materials.

Blurb

This book is a result of the research and educational activities of a group of outstanding scientists worldwide who have authored the chapters of this book dealing with the behavior of nanoscale building blocks. It contains a variety of subjects covering computational, dry and wet nanotechnology. The state-of-the-art subject matters presented here provide the reader with the latest developments on ongoing nanoscience and nanotechnology research from the bottom-up approach, which starts with with atoms and molecules as molecular building blocks.