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Colloidal Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

Synthesis, Characterization and Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 15, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sabu Thomas, Anu Tresa Sunny, Prajitha Velayudhan
  • Language: English

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Description

Approx.586 pages

Key features

  • Provides the most comprehensive resource on the topic, from fundamentals, to synthesis and characterization techniques
  • Presents key applications, including biomedical, energy, electronic and environmental
  • Discusses the most relevant techniques for synthesis, patterning and characterization

Readership

Materials Science researchers, graduate students in chemistry, physics, materials science, or nanoscience/nanotechnology

Table of contents

Part I. Fundamentals of colloidal metal oxide nanocrystals

1. Physics and chemistry of colloidal metal oxide nanocrystals and their applications to nanotechnologies and microsystems

2. Surface chemistry, modification, and engineering of colloidal nanocrystals

3. Nanosecond pulsed laser ablation to synthesize ternary alloy colloidal nanoparticles

Part II. Formation, stabilization and characterization of colloidal nanocrystals

4. Aqueous methods for the synthesis of colloidal metal oxide nanocrystals

5. Non-aqueous methods for the synthesis of colloidal metal oxide nanocrystals

6. Green synthesis protocols

7. Colloidal core-shell metal oxide nanocrystals and their applications

8. Colloidal multinary metal oxides

9. Features of colloidal nanocrystal characterization

Part III: Applications of colloidal metal oxides

10. Colloidal metal oxides in biomedical applications

11. Colloidal metal oxides in energy technologies

12. Colloidal metal oxides in electronics and optoelectronics

13. Colloidal metal oxide nanocrystals in catalysis

14. Environmental remediation

15. Aerogels and their applications

16. Colloidal oxide-based heterostructured nanocrystals

17. Metal Oxides for Energy Applications

18. Colloidal magnetic metal oxide nano crystals and their applications in sustained drug release

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 16, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editors

ST

Sabu Thomas

Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India; Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Center of Excellence in Polymeric Materials for Medical Practice Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

AT

Anu Tresa Sunny

Anu Sunny is a Research Scholar at the School of Chemical Sciences at Mahatma Gandhi University, India. She has a PhD in Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University and wrote a thesis on the topic ‘Synthesis, characterization and physico-chemical studies of copper oxide and calcium phosphate based epoxy nanocomposites.’ She has written articles and book chapters on metal oxide nanoparticles.
Affiliations and expertise
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India

PV

Prajitha Velayudhan

Prajitha Velayudhan is currently working as Research Fellow at the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Her research focuses on self assembling of nanomaterials such as nanosilica, graphene oxide, nanocomposites, rubber nanocomposites etc.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow, International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India

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