Handbook of Nanophase and Nanostructured Materials: Volume I: Synthesis, Volume II: Characterization, Volume III: Materials Systems and Applications I (Hardcover)

Volume I: Synthesis: Foreword. Preface. List of Contributors. A: Chemical Synthesis. 1. Microemulsions. 2. Pyrolysis. 3. Forced hydrolysis and chemical co-precipitation. 4. Sol-gel processing. 5. Chemical vapor deposition. B: Physical Synthesis and others. 6. Aerosal methods. 7. Physical vapor deposition. 8. Synthesis Of Nanocrystalline Materials By Laser Ablation. 9. Nanostructured films and coatings by evaporation, sputtering, thermal spraying, electro-and electroless deposition. 10. Artificial patterned nanostructures (lithography by laser, x-ray, electron beam; chemically filtration of masks, templated intaxy). 11. Ion implantation. Volume II: Characterization: Foreword. Preface. List of Contributors. A: Structural characterization. 12. X-ray and neutron diffraction. 13. Transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy. 14. Scanning electron microscopy. 15. Scanning probe microscopy. B: Property characterization. 16. Optical spectroscopies nanostructured materials. 17. Dynamic Properties of Nanoparticles. 18. Magnetic characterization. 19. Electrochemical characterization. 20. Mechanical property characterization. 21. Thermal analysis. Volume III: Materials Systems and Applications, I: Foreword. Preface. List of Contributors. 22. Clusters. 23. Semiconductor nanoparticles. 24. Electrochemical self-assembly of ordered quantum dots and wire arrays. 25. Semiconductor nanowires. 26 . Magnetic Nanocrystals and Arrays. 27. Nanostructured soft and hard magnetic materials. 28. Nanomaterials for Information Storage. 29. Magnetic fluids. 30. Functional oxide nanocrystals. Volume IV: Materials Systems and Applications, II: Foreword. Preface. List of Contributors. 31. Nano-mechanism of the hexagonal-cubic phase transition in boron nitride under high pressure at high temperature. 32. Nanomaterials for energy storage: batteries and fuel cells. 33. Nanocomposites. 34. Growth and properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes. 35. Nanomaterials from light element composites. 36. Nanocrystal self-assembled materials. 37. Molecularly organized nanostructural materials. 38. Nanostructured biomaterials. 39. Nanophase metal oxide materials for electrochromic displays. 40. Nanomaterials for non-linear optics and photonics.