Nanomaterials inevitably have bright prospects, but even now they play an important role in many areas of industry. Some of these new materials are commercially available and are used in off the shelf products, others are important model systems for physicochemical and materials science research. However, research findings and application data are not compiled in a single work. The Springer Handbook of Nanomaterials collects description and data of materials which have dimensions on the nanoscale. The description of nanomaterials follows the interplay of structure, properties, processing and applications mainly in their solid phase. The chapters were arranged according to the classical materials-science classifications: carbon materials, metals, ceramics, composites, and biomaterials. For each part, materials structures represent different dimensionality; zero-dimensional clusters, nanoparticles and quantum dots, one-dimensional nanowires and nanotubes, and two-dimensional thin films and surfaces. Combinations cover for instance nanostructured and hybrid materials.

Almost 100 leading scientists from academia and the industry were selected to write the 32 chapters and collect the physical, chemical and mechanical data. The handbook was written and compiled for professionals and practitioners, materials scientists, physicists and chemists at universities, as well as in the fields of industrial research and production.

The Handbook is organized in seven parts. Part A: NanoCarbons. Part B: NanoMetals. Part C: NanoCeramics. Part D: NanoComposits. Part E: Nanoporous Materials. Part F: Organic and Biomaterilas. Part G: Applications and Impact.

Key Topics

Graphene, Fullerenes, Nanotubes, Diamonds, Bionanomaterials
Noble and Common Metals, Alloys, Magnetic Nanostructures
Piezoelectrics, Graphite Oxide, Crystals, Glasses, Polymers, Dispersions
Silicon, Zeolites, Anodic Aluminum Oxide
Applications in Energy, Civil Engineering, Nanomedicine, Nanofiltering
Toxicology, Hazards and Safety Features
Covers basic concepts, materials, properties, and fabrication
Contains over 700 color illustrations
Numerous comprehensive data tables
Features exhaustive references to approved data
Concise, clear and coherent presentation
All chapters with summaries
Application-oriented contents

Auteur

Robert Vajtai is a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Rice University, Houston, USA. His scientific interests cover synthesis, processing, and characterization of physical and chemical properties of new material forms and structures, mainly nanostructured materials, nanocomposites and nanomaterials; as well as applications of these materials in thermal management, energy storage, MEMS, and electronic devices.

He received his MS degree in Physics and his Doctor's degree in Solid-State Physics from the University of Szeged, Hungary, in 1986 and 1997, respectively. From 1987 to 2002 he was a Faculty Member of the Experimental Physics Department of Szeged University, Hungary. He also spent sabbatical time as a Fellow of the Swedish Institute in The Ångstrom Laboratory in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1998 to 1999; as an Eötvös Fellow at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1995 to 1996 and he also visited the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany in 1993 via a Max Planck Fellowship. He was rewarded by the Bolyai Fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Academy for 1999-2000.

Before joining Rice University, Dr. Vajtai spent eight years at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was a Laboratory Manager at the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center managing the nanoparticle generation by inert-gas deposition and the carbon nanotechnology laboratories. Dr. Vajtai is on the Editorial Board of the journals Nanopages and Fluctuations and Noise Letters.

Texte du rabat

Forewords by Claes-Göran Granqvist, Uppsala University, Sweden*,* and Neal F. Lane, Rice University, Texas

Key Topics

Graphene, Fullerenes, Nanotubes, Diamonds, Bionanomaterials
Noble and Common Metals, Alloys, Magnetic Nanostructures
Piezoelectrics, Graphite Oxide, Crystals, Glasses, Polymers, Dispersions
Silicon, Zeolites, Anodic Aluminum Oxide
Applications in Energy, Civil Engineering, Nanomedicine, Nanofiltering
Toxicology, Hazards and Safety Features
Covers basic concepts, materials, properties, and fabrication
Contains over 700 color illustrations
Numerous comprehensive data tables
Features exhaustive references to approved data
Concise, clear and coherent presentation
All chapters with summaries
Application-oriented contents

Résumé

The Springer Handbook of Nanomaterials covers the description of materials which have dimension on the "nanoscale". The description of the nanomaterials in this Handbook follows the thorough but concise explanation of the synergy of structure, properties, processing and applications of the given material. The Handbook mainly describes materials in their solid phase; exceptions might be e.g. small sized liquid aerosols or gas bubbles in liquids. The materials are organized by their dimensionality. Zero dimensional structures collect clusters, nanoparticles and quantum dots, one dimensional are nanowires and nanotubes, while two dimensional are represented by thin films and surfaces. The chapters in these larger topics are written on a specific materials and dimensionality combination, e.g. ceramic nanowires. Chapters are authored by well-established and well-known scientists of the particular field. They have measurable part of publications and an important role in establishing new knowledge of the particular field.