Toward Functional Nanomaterials

This book presents a detailed overview of recent research developments on functional nanomaterials, including synthesis, characterization, and applications. This state-of-the-art book is multidisciplinary in scope and international in authorship.

Because of advanced characterization and new fabrication techniques, nanomaterials are now central to multiple disciplines, including materials science, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Nanomaterials with many kinds of morphologies and compositions have been extensively investigated, and display various kinds of functionality in areas such as electronic structure, optical effects, and spin dynamics. This book presents a detailed overview of recent research developments on functional nanomaterials, including synthesis, characterization, and applications. A series of chapters provides state-of-the-art information on oxide nanoparticles, metal nanostructures, semiconductor nanocrystals, and polymer nanocomposites.

Covers functional nanomaterials from synthesis to advanced fabrication methods to applications Multidisciplinary in scope and international in authorship Practical reference for anyone working in, or intending to enter the field of, functional nanomaterials

Inhalt
Fabrication of Oxide Nanoparticles by Ion Implantation and Thermal Oxidation.- Design of Solution-Grown ZnO Nanostructures.- Self-Assembled Metal Nanostructures in Semiconductor Structures.- Nanocrystal-Based Polymer Composites as Novel Functional Materials.- Large-Scale Ab Initio Study of Size, Shape, and Doping Effects on Electronic Structure of Nanocrystals.- Chaotic Behavior Appearing in Dynamic Motions of Nanoscale Particles.- Hydrogen Concentration, Bonding Configuration and Electron Emission Properties of Polycrystalline Diamond Films: From Micro- to Nanometric Grain Size.- Super-Resolution Optical Effects of Nanoscale Nonlinear Thin Film Structure and Ultrahigh-Density Information Storage.- Spin-Transfer and Current-Induced Spin Dynamics in Spin Valves: Diffusive Transport Regime.- Self-Organized Surface Nanopatterning by Ion Beam Sputtering.- Area-Selective Depositions of Self-assembled Monolayers on Patterned SiO2/Si Surfaces.- Virtual Synthesis of Electronic Nanomaterials: Fundamentals and Prospects.