Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters
Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications
- 1st Edition - June 28, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Sabu Thomas, Kuruvilla Joseph, Saritha Appukuttan, Meegle S. Mathew
- Language: English
Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications provides a comprehensive accounting of various protocols used for the synthesis of metal nanoclust… Read more
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Description
Description
Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications provides a comprehensive accounting of various protocols used for the synthesis of metal nanoclusters, their characterization techniques, toxicity evaluation and various applications and future prospects. The book provides detailed experimental routes, along with mechanisms on the formation of benign metallic clusters using biomaterials and a comprehensive review regarding the preparation, properties and prospective applications of these nano clusters in various fields, including therapeutic applications. Various methods to protect nanocluster materials to increase their stability are emphasized, including the incorporation of ligands (protein, small molecule, DNA, thiols).
This book addresses a gap in the current literature by bringing together the preparation, characterization and applications of all the possible types of reported metal nanoclusters and their hybrids. It is suitable for materials scientists and engineers in academia and those working in research and development in industry. It may also be of interest to those working in the interdisciplinary nanotechnology community, such as physical chemists.
Key features
Key features
- Covers the most relevant material categories of luminescent nanoclusters such as metal nanoclusters, nano composites and alloy nanoclusters
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the various available methods used for the protection of nanoclusters
- Discusses the latest advances and future opportunities in addressing challenges in producing benign nanomaterials such as toxicity and stability
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. General introduction—luminescent metal nanoclusters
2. Methods of synthesis of metal nanoclusters
3. Analytical tools for the characterization and quantification of metal nanoclusters
4. Mass spectrometry and metal nanoclusters
5. Origin of luminescence of metal nanoclusters
6. General purification methods of metal nanoclusters
7. Phosphine and thiol protected metal nanoclusters
8. Polymer- and dendrimer-protected metal nanoclusters
9. DNA-protected metal nanoclusters
10. Peptide-protected metal nanoclusters
11. Protein and enzyme protected metal nanoclusters
12. Alloy nanoclusters-synthesis methods and structural evaluation
13. Self-assembly of metal nanoclusters in colloid science
14. Applications of metallic nanoclusters in bioimaging
15. Biomarker sensing using luminescent metal nanoclusters
16. Environmental applications of luminescent metal nanoclusters
17. Therapeutic applications of metal nanoclusters
18. Stimuli-responsive metal nanoclusters for targeted drug and gene delivery and their biomedical applications
19. Antimicrobial properties of metal nanoclusters
20. Metal nanoclusters as photosensitizers
21. Metal nanoclusters for catalytic applications: synthesis and characterization
22. Metal nanoclusters for energy storage applications
23. Bioavailability, biodistribution, and toxicity of fluorescent metal nanoclusters
24. Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters: Summary and future outlook
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 28, 2022
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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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.
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Kuruvilla Joseph
Kuruvilla Joseph is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India. His research areas include nanomaterials and nanocomposites, polymer blends and composites, synthesis of polymers from natural resources, green materials and biocomposites, aging and degradation, and development of biosensors.
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Saritha Appukuttan
Dr. Saritha Appukuttan was awarded her PhD from Mahatma Gandhi University in 2012 working in the field of polymer nanocomposites. She has also been worked for two years on the development of gas barrier membranes on an ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) project. She has published around 25 book chapters with highly reputed publishers and several research papers in high impact international journals such as Composites Part A, Composites Part B, and Materials Chemistry and Physics and has edited two books on “Fibre Reinforced Composites: Constituents, compatibility, perspectives and applications” (Elsevier) and on “Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters” (Elsevier). Currently, she is editing two more books on “Lignin and its Composites: A sustainable tool for health care and medical applications” and “Zero-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures” to be published by RSC and Elsevier, respectively.
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Meegle S. Mathew
Meegle S. Mathew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Mar Athanasius College, Kothamangalam, India. Her multidisciplinary research integrates nanoscience with biomedicine, energy conversion, and environmental applications, with a focus on nano-biophotonics, optical imaging, fluorescent nanoparticle-based biosensors and biomedical devices, photocatalysis, nanopriming, and photoreduction.