Textbook of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

This book is meant to serve as a textbook for beginners in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It can also be used as additional reading in this multifaceted area. It covers the entire spectrum of nanoscience and technology: introduction, terminology, historical perspectives of this domain of science, unique and widely differing properties, advances in the various synthesis, consolidation and characterization techniques, applications of nanoscience and technology and emerging materials and technologies.

List of contents

The Big World of Nanomaterials.- Unique properties of nanomaterials.- Synthesis Routes.- Application of Nanomaterials.- Tools to Characterise Nanomaterials.- Nanostructured materials of high application potential.- Concerns and challenges in nanotechnology.

About the author

B.S. MURTY Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai
P. SHANKAR Scientific Officer, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam
BALDEV RAJ Director, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam
B.B. RATH Director, Materials science and Component technology, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA
JAMES MURDAY Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA

Summary

This book is meant to serve as a textbook for beginners in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It can also be used as additional reading in this multifaceted area. It covers the entire spectrum of nanoscience and technology: introduction, terminology, historical perspectives of this domain of science, unique and widely differing properties, advances in the various synthesis, consolidation and characterization techniques, applications of nanoscience and technology and emerging materials and technologies.

Product details

• Authors: James Murday, B Murty, B S Murty, B. S. Murty, B.S. Murty, Baldev Raj, Baldev et al Raj, B B Rath, B. B. Rath, Shankar, P Shankar, P. Shankar
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783662509128
• ISBN: 978-3-662-50912-8
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 246 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 446 g
• Illustrations: XII, 244 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Nanotechnologie, B, Nanowissenschaften, engineering, Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Nanostructures, Nanoscale science, Nanophysics, Nanoscience, Microsystems and MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, quantum dots, Nanowires