ABSTRACT
This up-to-date reference is the most comprehensive summary of the field of nanoscience and its applications. It begins with fundamental properties at the nanoscale and then goes well beyond into the practical aspects of the design, synthesis, and use of nanomaterials in various industries. It emphasizes the vast strides made in the field over the past decade – the chapters focus on new, promising directions as well as emerging theoretical and experimental methods. The contents incorporate experimental data and graphs where appropriate, as well as supporting tables and figures with a tutorial approach.
1. Theoretical Atto-Nano Physics 2. The de Broglie Wave-Nature of Molecules, Clusters & Nanoparticles 3. Electromagnetic Nanonetworks 4. Nanoscale Energy Transport 5. Coulomb Effects and Exotic Charge Transport in Nanostructured Materials 6. Spin-Dependent Thermoelectric Currents in Nanostructures (Tunnel Junctions, Thin Films, Small Rings and Quantum Dots) 7. Joule Heat Generation by Electric Current in Nanostructures 8. Quantum Transport Simulation of Nanosystems: An Introduction to the Green's Function Approach 9. Transient Quantum Transport in Nanostructures 10. Thermal Transport in Nanofilms 11. Thermal Transport and Phonon Coherence in Phononic Nanostructures 12. Quantum Chaotic Systems and Random Matrix Theory 13. Topological Constraint Theory and Rigidity of Glasses 14. Topological Descriptors of Carbon Nanostructures 15. Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Electronic State Calculations on Supercomputer 16. Atomistic Simulation of Disordered Nanoelectronics 17. Ab Initio Simulations of Carboxylated Nanomaterials 18. Phase Behavior of Atomic and Molecular Nanosystems 19. Exact Solutions in the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent DFT of Mesoscopic Systems 20. Molecular Simulation of Porous Graphene 21. Metallic Nanoglases Investigated by Molecular Dynamics Simulations -
