"Smart and intelligent nanomaterials are currently in sharp focus in materials research as their properties are increasingly becoming more understood. This large and fairly comprehensive volume includes thirty chapters divided into four main areas: Inorganic materials, organic materials, composite materials, and biomaterials. It covers the latest research and developments in smart nanomaterials: processing, properties, and applications. Included are molecular device materials, biomimetic materials, hybrid-type functionalized polymers-composite materials, information-and energy-transfer materials, as well as environmentally friendly materials"--

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Ashutosh Tiwari is an assistant professor of nanobioelectronics at Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFM-Linköping University as well as Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials Letters. Ajay K. Mishra is a senior lecturer at the Nanomaterials Research Centre, Department of Chemical Technology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Hisatoshi Kobayashi is the group leader of Biofunctional Materials at Biomaterials Centre, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. Anthony P.F. Turner is the Head of Division at IFM-Linköping and created the Centre for Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Prior to this he was the Principal of Cranfield University in the UK. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the principal journal in his field, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, which he co-founded in 1985.

Inhalt

Preface xxi Part I. Inorganic Materials 1. Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-assembly of Colloidal Quantum Dots 3 Saim M. Emin, Alexandre Loukanov, Surya P. Singh, Seilichiro Nakabayashi and Liyuan Han 2. One-dimensional Semiconducting Metal Oxides: Synthesis, Characterization and Gas Sensors Application 39 Nguyen Duc Hoa 3. Rare-earth Based Insulating Nanocrystals: Improved Luminescent Nanophosphors for Plasma Display Panels 89 Prashant K. Sharma and AvinashC. Pandey 4. Amorphous Porous Mixed Oxides: A New and Highly Versatile Class of Materials 149 Sadanand Pandey and Shivani B. Mishra 5. Zinc Oxide Nanostructures and their Applications 183 Rizwan Wahib, I. H. Hwang, Hyung-Shik Shin, Young-Soon Kim, Javed Musarrat and M. A. Siddiqui 6. Smart Nanomaterials for Space and Energy Applications 213 Raghvendra S. Pandey 7. Thermochromic Thin Films and Nanocomposite for Smart Glazing 251 Russell Binions Part II. Organic Materials 317 8. Polymeric Nano-, Micellar and Core-shell Materials 319 Angel Contreras-Garcia, Guillermina Burillo, and Emilio Bucio 9. Conjugates of Nanomaterials with Phthalocyanines 347 Edith Antunes, Christian Litwinski and Tebello Nyokong 10. Nanostructured Carbon and Polymer Materials- Synthesis and their Application in Energy Conversion Devices 425 Debmalya Roy, B. Shastri, Md. Immamuddin, K. Mukhopadhyay 11. Advancement in Cellulose Based Bio-plastics for Biomedicals 467 S. K. Shukla Part III. Composite Materials 487 12. Intelligent Nanocomposite Hydrogels 489 Mohammad Sirousazar and Mehrdad Kokabi 13. Polymer/Layered Silicates Nanocomposites for Barrier Technology 533 Philip W. Labuschagne, Sean Moolman and Arjun Maity 14. Polymers/Composites Based Intelligent Transducers 571 Ajay Kumar Mishra, Shivani B. Mishra, Ashutosh Tiwari Part IV. Biomaterials and Devices 583 15. Hydrogel Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery 585 Mehrdad Hamidi, Kobra Rostamizadeh and Mohammad-Ali Shahbazi 16. Mode of Growth Mechanism of Nanocrystal Using Biomolecules 625 Sharda Sunaram Sanjay, Ravindra P. Singh, Ashutosh Tiwari and Avinash C. Pandey 17. Quantum Dots for Detection, Identification and Tracking of Single Biomolecules in Tissue and Cells 649 Alexandre R. Loukanov, Saim Emin 18. Nanofibers Based Biomedical Devices 679 Debasish Mondal and Ashutosh Tiwari 19. Nano-sized Carrier Systems as New Materials for Nuclear Medicine 715 Martin Hruby 20. Biomimetic Materials Toward Application of Nanobidiodevices 741 Ravindra P. Singh, Jeong-Woo Choi, Ashutosh Tiwari, and Avinash C. Pandey 21. Lipid Based Nano-biosensors for Medical Diagnostics 783 Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, Dimitrios P. Nikolelis and Nikolaos Tzamtzis 22. Polymeric Nanofibers and their Applications in Sensors 801 Murugan Ramalingam, Ashutosh Tiwari References 823 Index 827