Top

Nanoporous Materials: Science and Engineering

May 24, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Product Description
Porous materials are of scientific and technological importance because of the presence of voids of controllable dimensions at the atomic, molecular, and nanometer scales, enabling them to discriminate and interact with molecules and clusters. Interestingly the big deal about this class of materials is about the “nothingness” within — the pore space. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) classifies porous materials into three categories — micropores of less than 2 nm in diameter, mesopores between 2 and 50 nm, and macropores of greater than 50 nm. In this book, nanoporous materials are defined as those porous materials with pore diameters less than 100 nm. Over the last decade, there has been an ever increasing interest and research effort in the synthesis, characterization, functionalization, molecular modeling and design of nanoporous materials. The main challenges in research include the fundamental understanding of structure-property relations and tailor-design of nanostructures for specific properties and applications. Research efforts in this field have been driven by the rapid growing emerging applications such as biosensor, drug delivery, gas separation, energy storage and fuel cell technology, nanocatalysis and photonics. These applications offer exciting new opportunities for scientists to develop new strategies and techniques for the synthesis and applications of these materials.

This book provides a series of systematic reviews of the recent developments in nanoporous materials. It covers the following topics: (1) synthesis, processing, characterization and property evaluation; (2) functionalization by physical and/or chemical treatments; (3) experimental and computational studies on fundamental properties, such as catalytic effects, transport and adsorption, molecular sieving and biosorption; (4) applications, including photonic devices, catalysis, environmental pollution control, biological molecules separation and isolation, sensors, membranes, hydrogen and energy storage, etc.

BUY FROM AMAZON–>> Nanoporous Materials: Science and Engineering

Nanotechnology: Think Small, Win Big With These Cutting Edge Techniques

April 11, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Product Description
Combining chemistry and mechanical engineering, nanotechnology seeks to build structures with atoms and molecules-machines, such as single electron transistor, or an abacus that calculates by moving single molecules around like beads. This report presents investors and R&D executives with the most up to date survey of current applications, research direction, technical challenges, and market potential of nano-scale devices. The report features an overview of nanotechnology research and an explanation of the sciences involved.

BUY FROM AMAZON–>> Nanotechnology: Think Small, Win Big With These Cutting Edge Techniques

Bottom