Nanomaterials: A Guide to Fabrication and Applications
About this ebook
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.
About the author
Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy leads efforts in nano-enabled medicine and cosmetics domains within the Materials Research and Technology Department at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (http://list.lu). He has spent his entire career to date in technology development environments, successfully integrating fundamental, cross-disciplinary, and translational aspects of fabrication, processing, and investigation of nanostructured materials and interfaces. He brings more than 10 years of transnational experience to advantage in driving innovation at the interface of nanotechnology, biology, and medicine. He has an active engagement in several professional activities, serving as a member of organizing committees in international conferences, member of journal editorial boards, and reviewer of grants, peer-reviewing journal articles, and scientific and administrative management of researchers at different levels.
