ABSTRACT

Nanomaterials are being incorporated into products all around us, having an incredible impact on durability, strength, functionality, and other material properties. There are a vast number of nanomaterials presently available, and new formulations and chemistries are being announced daily.

Nanomaterials: A Guide to Fabrication and Applications provides product developers, researchers, and materials scientists with a handy resource for understanding the range of options and materials currently available. Covering a variety of nanomaterials and their applications, this practical reference:

  • Discusses the scale of nanomaterials and nanomachines, focusing on integrated circuits (ICs) and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
  • Offers insight into different nanomaterials’ interactions with chemical reactions, biological processes, and the environment
  • Examines the mechanical properties of nanomaterials and potential treatments to enhance the nanomaterials’ performance
  • Details recent accomplishments in the use of nanomaterials to create new forms of electronic devices
  • Explores the optical properties of certain nanomaterials and the nanomaterials’ use in optimizing lasers and optical absorbers
  • Describes an energy storage application as well as how nanomaterials from waste products may be used to improve capacitors

Featuring contributions from experts around the globe, Nanomaterials: A Guide to Fabrication and Applications serves as a springboard for the discovery of new applications of nanomaterials.

chapter 1|22 pages

Top Down Meets Bottom Up for Nanoscale CMOS and MEMS

ByArindam Kushagra, Sampath Satti, V. Ramgopal Rao

chapter 2|30 pages

Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic and Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Nanomaterials by Microreactor-Assisted Chemical Processes

ByKi-Joong Kim, Chang-Ho Choi, Seung-Yeol Han, Chih-Hung Chang

chapter 3|42 pages

Studying Biologically Templated Materials with Atomic Force Microscopy

ByAndrew J. Lee, Christoph Walti

chapter 4|28 pages

Environmental Fate and Effects of Nanomaterials in Aquatic Freshwater Environments

ByArno C. Gutleb, Sébastien Cambier, Teresa Fernandes, Anastasia Georgantzopoulou, Thomas A.J. Kuhlbusch, Iseult Lynch, Ailbhe Macken, Kahina Mehennaoui, Ruth Moeller, Carmen Nickel, W. Peijnenburg, Tomasso Serchi

chapter 5|22 pages

Magnetron-Sputtered Hard Nanostructured TiAIN Coatings Strategic Approach toward Potential Improvement

ByVishal Khetan, Nathalie Valle, Marie Paule Delplancke, Patrick Choquet

chapter 7|28 pages

Design of Magnetic Semiconductors in Silicon

ByMichael Shaughnessy, Liam Damewood, Ching-Yao Fong

chapter 8|20 pages

Solution-Based Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Logic Gate

ByYan Duan, Jason Juhala, Wei Xue

chapter 9|22 pages

On the Possibility of Observing Tunable Laser-Induced Band Gaps in Graphene*

ByHernán L. Calvo, Horacio M. Pastawski, Stephan Roche, Luis E.F. Foa Torres

chapter 10|24 pages

Applications of Nanocarbons for High-Efficiency Optical Absorbers and High-Performance Nanoelectromechanical Systems

ByAnupama B. Kaul, Jaesung Lee, Philip X.-L. Feng

chapter 11|22 pages

Carbon Nanostructures from Biomass Waste for Supercapacitor Applications

ByAnkit Tyagi, Raju Kumar Gupta