Intelligent Nanomaterials

Preface xxi

Part I. Inorganic Materials

1. Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-assembly of Colloidal Quantum Dots 3
Saim M. Emin, Alexandre Loukanov, Surya P. Singh, Seilichiro Nakabayashi and Liyuan Han

2. One-dimensional Semiconducting Metal Oxides: Synthesis, Characterization and Gas Sensors Application 39
Nguyen Duc Hoa

3. Rare-earth Based Insulating Nanocrystals: Improved Luminescent Nanophosphors for Plasma Display Panels 89
Prashant K. Sharma and AvinashC. Pandey

4. Amorphous Porous Mixed Oxides: A New and Highly Versatile Class of Materials 149
Sadanand Pandey and Shivani B. Mishra

5. Zinc Oxide Nanostructures and their Applications 183
Rizwan Wahib, I. H. Hwang, Hyung-Shik Shin, Young-Soon Kim, Javed Musarrat and M. A. Siddiqui

6. Smart Nanomaterials for Space and Energy Applications 213
Raghvendra S. Yadav, Ravindra P. Singh, Ashutosh Tiwari, and Avinash C. Pandey,

7. Thermochromic Thin Films and Nanocomposite for Smart Glazing 251
Russell Binions

Part II. Organic Materials 317

8. Polymeric Nano-, Micellar and Core-shell Materials 319
Angel Contreras-Garcia, Guillermina Burillo, and Emilio Bucio

9. Conjugates of Nanomaterials with Phthalocyanines 347
Edith Antunes, Christian Litwinski and Tebello Nyokong

10. Nanostructured Carbon and Polymer Materials- Synthesis and their Application in Energy Conversion Devices 425
Debmalya Roy, B. Shastri, Md. Immamuddin, K. Mukhopadhyay

11. Advancement in Cellulose Based Bio-plastics for Biomedicals 467
S. K. Shukla

Part III. Composite Materials 487

12. Intelligent Nanocomposite Hydrogels 489
Mohammad Sirousazar and Mehrdad Kokabi

13. Polymer/Layered Silicates Nanocomposites for Barrier Technology 533
Philip W. Labuschagne, Sean Moolman and Arjun Maity

14. Polymers/Composites Based Intelligent Transducers 571
Ajay Kumar Mishra, Shivani B. Mishra, Ashutosh Tiwari

Part IV. Biomaterials and Devices 583

15. Hydrogel Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery

Ashutosh Tiwari is an assistant professor of nanobioelectronics at Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFM-Linköping University as well as Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials Letters.Ajay K. Mishra is a senior lecturer at the Nanomaterials Research Centre, Department of Chemical Technology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.Hisatoshi Kobayashi is the group leader of Biofunctional Materials at Biomaterials Centre, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan.Anthony P.F. Turner is the Head of Division at IFM-Linköping and created the Centre for Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Prior to this he was the Principal of Cranfield University in the UK. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the principal journal in his field, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, which he co-founded in 1985.

"I would like to congratulate the Editors for this impressive collection of contributions on the front line of nanomaterial research ... This little remark cannot blur the fact, however, that Intelligent Nanomaterials , edited by Tiwari, Mishra, Kobayashi and Turner, is an exceptionally valuable reference book for many researchers and students in materials science, nano- and biotechnology." ( Advanced Materials Letters , 2012)