Category: Nanotechnology

By Lionel Vayssieres

Extra strength from the solar moves Earth in an hour than is ate up through people in a whole yr. successfully harnessing solar energy for sustainable iteration of hydrogen calls for inexpensive, purpose-built, sensible fabrics mixed with reasonably cheap large-scale production equipment. those matters are comprehensively addressed in On sunlight Hydrogen & Nanotechnology - an authoritative, interdisciplinary resource of basic and utilized wisdom in all components with regards to sunlight hydrogen. Written by way of top specialists, the booklet emphasizes cutting-edge fabrics and characterization concepts in addition to the effect of nanotechnology in this innovative box.

By C. Mathew Mate

Friction, lubrication, adhesion, and put on are general actual phenomena in lifestyle and in lots of key applied sciences. This e-book explains how those tribological phenomena originate from atomistic and microscale actual phenomena and exhibits how this figuring out can be utilized to unravel macroscale tribology difficulties. The e-book is meant to serve either as a textbook for complex undergraduate and graduate classes in tribology and as an advent to the sphere for these scientists and engineers operating with applied sciences the place a superb seize of tribology is essential.

By Pieter G. Kik (Editor) Mark L. Brongersma (Editor)

This booklet discusses a brand new category of photonic units, referred to as floor plasmon nanophotonic constructions. The publication highlights a number of fascinating new discoveries, whereas supplying a transparent dialogue of the underlying physics, the nanofabrication matters, and the fabrics issues fascinated by designing plasmonic units with new performance. Chapters written through the leaders within the box of plasmonics supply a great heritage to every subject.

By Victor I. Klimov

Semiconductor and steel Nanocrystals addresses subject matters impacting the sphere together with synthesis and meeting of nanocrystals, concept and spectroscopy of interband and intraband optical transitions, single-nanocrystal optical and tunneling spectroscopies, electric delivery in nanocrystal assemblies, and actual and engineering elements of nanocrystal-based units. Written via specialists, this reference provides key advances within the box of semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots and steel nanoparticles during the last numerous years. It focuses in particular on nanocrystals generated via chemical innovations and merges investigative frontiers in physics, chemistry, and engineering.

By Farzad Ebrahimi

By Fritz Allhoff (auth.), Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin (eds.)

is a suite of 16 papers concerned about the main pressing concerns bobbing up from nanotechnology at the present time and within the close to destiny. Written via major researchers, coverage specialists, and nanoethics students around the world, the publication is split into 5 devices: foundational concerns; probability and law; and coverage; the human ; and chosen international concerns. The essays take on such contentious concerns as environmental effect, wellbeing and fitness risks, clinical merits, highbrow estate, specialist code of ethics, privateness, overseas governance, and more.

FRITZ ALLHOFF, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan collage and examine affiliate within the Centre for utilized Philosophy and Public Ethics on the Australian nationwide collage.

PATRICK LIN, PhD, is a traveling Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California kingdom Polytechnic college, San Luis Obispo, and has educational appointments at Dartmouth collage and Western Michigan collage. either editors also are co-founders of The Nanoethics Group.

By Tapani Ryhänen, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Olli Ikkala, Asta Kärkkäinen

Discover the possibility of nanotechnologies to rework destiny cellular and net communications. in keeping with a learn collaboration among Nokia, Helsinki college of expertise, and the college of Cambridge, the following prime researchers assessment the present state-of-the artwork and destiny customers for: • Novel multifunctional fabrics, airborne dirt and dust repellent, self-healing floor fabrics, and light-weight structural fabrics able to adapting their form • transportable power garage utilizing supercapacitor-battery hybrids in keeping with new fabrics together with carbon nanohorns and porous electrodes, gas mobilephone applied sciences, strength harvesting and extra effective sunlight cells • Electronics and computing advances achieving past IC scaling limits, new computing methods and architectures, embedded intelligence and destiny reminiscence applied sciences. • Nanoscale transducers for mechanical, optical and chemical sensing, sensor sign processing, and nanoscale actuation • Nanoelectronics to create ultrafast and adaptive electronics for destiny radio applied sciences • Flat panel screens with larger robustness, more desirable solution, brightness and distinction, and mechanical flexibility • production and innovation approaches, plus commercialization of nanotechnologies.

By Peter Michler

This e-book experiences contemporary advances within the box of semiconductor quantum dots through contributions from admired researchers within the medical neighborhood. precise concentration is given to optical, quantum optical, and spin houses of unmarried quantum dots.

By Wooley K.L.

By Masatsugu Shimomura, Teruya Ishihara

This ebook bargains with the vast spectrum of nanoscience and nanotechnology, the place interdisciplinary collaboration is crucial. Focuses are put on fabrics (nanoparticles, dendrimer, CNT), fabrication (LB movie, SAM, substitute adsorption, microcontact printing, photofabrication) and characterization (scanning probe microscopy and electron microscopy) at the nanoscale. rising purposes to nanophotonics and nanobionics are mentioned besides.