Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology

Content: 
Foreword, Page vii, George A. Olah
Preface, Pages ix-xii, Hari Singh Nalwa
About the Editor, Page xxi
List of Contributors, Pages xxiii-xxvi
Chapter 1 - Chemical synthesis of nanostructured metals, metal alloys, and semiconductors, Pages 1-56, K.E. Gonsalves, S.P. Rangarajan, J. Wang
Chapter 2 - Nanoparticles from low-pressure, low-temperature plasmas, Pages 57-158, Josep Costa
Chapter 3 - Synthesis of nanostructured coatings by high-velocity oxygen-fuel thermal spraying, Pages 159-213, Honggang Jiang, Maggy Lau, Victoria L. Tellkamp, Enrique J. Lavernia
Chapter 4 - Low-temperature compaction of nanosize powders, Pages 215-249, E.J. Gonzalez, G.J. Piermarini
Chapter 5 - Kinetic control of inorganic solid-state reactions resulting from mechanistic studies using elementally modulated reactants, Pages 251-294, Christopher D. Johnson, Myungkeun Noh, Heike Sellinschegg, Robert Schneidmiller, David C. Johnson
Chapter 6 - Strained-layer heteroepitaxy to fabricate self-assembled semiconductor islands, Pages 295-333, W.H. Weinberg, C.M. Reaves, B.Z. Nosho, R.I. Pelzel, S.P. DenBaars
Chapter 7 - Nanofabrication via atom optics, Pages 335-385, Jabez J. McClelland
Chapter 8 - Nanocomposites prepared by sol-gel methods: Synthesis and characterization, Pages 387-421, Krzysztof C. Kwiatkowski, Charles M. Lukehart
Chapter 9 - Chemical preparation and characterization of nanocrystalline materials, Pages 423-480, Qian Yitai
Chapter 10 - Semiconductor quantum dots: Progress in processing, Pages 481-500, David J. Duval, Subhash H. Risbud
Chapter 11 - Rapid solidification processing of nanocrystalline metallic alloys, Pages 501-532, I.T.H. Chang
Chapter 12 - Vapor processing of nanostructured materials, Pages 533-577, K.L. Choy
Chapter 13 - Applications of micromachining to nanotechnology, Pages 579-630, Amit Lal
Chapter 1 - Nanodiffraction, Pages 1-87, J.M. Cowley, J.C.H. Spence
Chapter 2 - Fourier transform infrared surface spectrometry of nano-sized particles, Pages 89-153, Marie-Isabelle Baraton
Chapter 3 - Specification of microstructure and characterization by scattering techniques, Pages 155-211, C.E. Krill, R. Haberkorn, R. Birringer
Chapter 4 - Vibrational spectroscopy of mesoscopic structures, Pages 213-269, P. Milani, C.E. Bottani
Chapter 5 - Advanced interfaces to scanned-probe microscopes, Pages 271-308,I-II, Russell M. Taylor II, Richard Superfine
Chapter 6 - Microwave spectroscopy on quantum dots, Pages 309-343, Robert H. Blick
Chapter 7 - Tribological experiments with friction force microscopy, Pages 345-383, Ernst Meyer, Roland Lüthi
Chapter 8 - Electron microscopy study of nanostructured and ancient materials, Pages 385-428,II, Miguel José-Yacamán, Jorge A. Ascencio
Chapter 9 - Mesoscopic magnetism in metals, Pages 429-474, Kamel Ounadjela, R.L. Stamps
Chapter 10 - Tools of nanotechnology: Nanometrology, Pages 475-511, David J. Whitehouse
Chapter 11 - Tunneling time in nanostructures, Pages 513-569, V. Gasparian, M. Ortuño, G. Schön, U. Simon
Chapter 12 - Theory of atomic-scale friction, Pages 571-618, Susan B. Sinnott
Chapter 13 - Theoretical aspects of strained-layer quantum-well lasers, Pages 619-663, Doyeol Ahn
Chapter 14 - Carbon-nanotube-based nanotechnology in an integrated modeling and simulation environment, Pages 665-705, Deepak Srivastava, Fedor Dzegilenko, Stephen Barnard, Subhash Saini, Madhu Menon, Sisira Weeratunga
Chapter 15 - Wave-function engineering: A new paradigm in quantum nanostructure modeling, Pages 707-739, L.R. Ram-Mohan, I. Vurgaftman, J.R. Meyer, D. Dossa
Chapter 1 - Electron transport and confining potentials in semiconductor nanostructures, Pages 1-91, J. Smoliner, G. Ploner
Chapter 2 - Electronic transport properties of quantum dots, Pages 93-130, M.A. Reed, J.W. Sleight, M.R. Deshpande
Chapter 3 - Electrical properties of chemically tailored nanoparticles and their application in microelectronics, Pages 131-178, U. Simon, G. Schön
Chapter 4 - The design, fabrication, and electronic properties of self-assembled molecular nanostructures, Pages 179-231, R.P. Andres, S. Datta, D.B. Janes, C.P. Kubiak, R. Reifenberger
Chapter 5 - Silicon-based nanostructures, Pages 233-289, Tamim P. Sidiki, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres
Chapter 6 - Semiconductor nanoparticles, Pages 291-344, Prashant V. Kamat, Kei Murakoshi, Yuji Wada, Shizo Yanagida
Chapter 7 - Hybrid magnetic-semiconductor nanostructures, Pages 345-426, François M. Peeters, Jo De Boeck
Chapter 8 - Colloidal quantum dots of III–V semiconductors, Pages 427-449, Olga I. Mićić, Arthur J. Nozik
Chapter 9 - Quantization and confinement phenomena in nanostructured superconductors, Pages 451-525, V.V. Moshchalkov, V. Bruyndoncx, L. Van Look, M.J. Van Bael, Y. Bruynseraede, A. Tonomura
Chapter 10 - Properties and applications of nanocrystalline electronic junctions, Pages 527-553, Michael Grätzel
Chapter 11 - Nanostructure fabrication using electron beam and its application to nanometer devices, Pages 555-583, Shinji Matsui
Chapter 1 - Photorefractive semiconductor nanostructures, Pages 1-80, D.D. Nolte, M.R. Melloch, Y. Ding, M. Dinu, K.M. Kwolek, I. Lahiri
Chapter 2 - Metal nanocluster composite glasses, Pages 81-158, Francesco Gonella, Paolo Mazzoldi
Chapter 3 - Porous silicon, Pages 159-229, Daniel F. Thomas
Chapter 4 - Three-dimensional lattices of nanostructures: The Template Approach, Pages 231-323, Sergei G. Romanov, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres
Chapter 5 - Fluorescence, thermoluminescence, and photostimulated luminescence of nanoparticles, Pages 325-392, Wei Chen
Chapter 6 - Surface-enhanced optical phenomena in nanostructured fractal materials, Pages 393-449, Vladimir M. Shalaev
Chapter 7 - Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals, Pages 451-527, Victor I. Klimov
Chapter 8 - Nonlinear optical properties of nanostructures, Pages 529-560, S. Vijayalakshmi, H. Grebel
Chapter 9 - Quantum well infrared photodetectors, Pages 561-619, Sheng S. Li, Meimei Z. Tidrow
Chapter 10 - Nanoscopic optical sensors and probes, Pages 621-667, Weihong Tan, Raoul Kopelman
Chapter 1 - Intercalation compounds in layered Host lattices: Supramolecular Chemistry in nanodimensions, Pages 1-166, Anton Lerf
Chapter 2 - Transition-metal-mediated self-assembly of discrete nanoscopic species with well-defined shapes and geometries, Pages 167-224, Peter J. Stang, Bogdan Olenyuk
Chapter 3 - Molecular and supramolecular nanomachines, Pages 225-275, Marcos Gómez-López, J. Fraser Stoddart
Chapter 4 - Functional nanostructures incorporating responsive modules, Pages 277-331, Andrew C. Benniston, Philip R. Mackie
Chapter 5 - Dendritic molecules—historic development and future applications, Pages 333-374, Andreas Archut, Fritz Vögtle
Chapter 6 - Carbon nanotubes, Pages 375-406, P.M. Ajayan
Chapter 7 - Encapsulation and crystallization behavior of materials inside carbon nanotubes, Pages 407-432, J. Sloan, M.L.H. Green
Chapter 8 - Fabrication and spectroscopic characterization of organic nanocrystals, Pages 433-473, Hitoshi Kasai, Hari Singh Nalwa, Shuji Okada, Hidetoshi Oikawa, Hachiro Nakanishi
Chapter 9 - Polymeric nanostructures, Pages 475-500, Guojun Liu
Chapter 10 - Conductive polymers as organic nanometals, Pages 501-575, Bernhard Wessling
Chapter 11 - Biopolymer and polymer nanoparticles and their biomedical applications, Pages 577-635, Evelyne Nakache, Nathalie Poulain, Françoise Candau, Anne-Marie Orecchioni, Juan Manuel Irache
Chapter 12 - Structure, behavior, and manipulation of nanoscale biological assemblies, Pages 637-710, Timothy Bayburt, Joseph Carlson, Bruce Godfrey, Mary Shank-Retzlaff, Stephen G. Sligar
Chapter 13 - Biomimetic thin films, Pages 711-768, Thomas M. Cooper
Index for Volume 1, Pages 631-639
Index for Volume 2, Pages 741-749
Index for Volume 3, Pages 585-591
Index for Volume 4, Pages 669-676
Index for Volume 5, Pages 769-778