Description :
Advanced materials can be defined in numerous ways the broadest definition is to refer to all materials that represent advances over the traditional materials that have been used for hundreds or even thousands of years. From this perspective advanced materials refer to all new materials and modifications to existing materials to obtain superior performance in one or more characteristics that are critical for the application under consideration. A more insightful and focused approach to advanced materials is to consider materials that are early in their product and/or technology lifecycle. In other words, there is significant room for growth in terms of the improvement of the performance characteristics (technology lifecycle) and their product lifecycle. The book presents new and important research in the field.

Table of Contents

Preface

Novel Enzyme/DNA/Inorganic Materials: A New Generation of Biomaterials

Nanostructured Arrays Based on Colloidal Monolayer

Periodically Nanostructured Monoliths

Features and Applications

Innovative Methods in Nanoparticles Assembly

Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Thermoelectric Nanostructured Materials

Hollow Micro- and Nanoscale Containers

Encapsulation of Carotenoids Inside Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes and their Optical Properties

1D ZnO Nanomaterials and Nanostructures

Xiaosheng Fang, Lide Zhang, Key Lab. of Materials Physics, Inst. of Solid State Physics, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China

Controllable Light Emission and Charge Transport Patterning and Device Fabrications on Multi-dimensional ZnO

Improvement of Vortex Pinning in MGB2 by Doping

Novel Self-assembled Polyelectrolyte Capsules: Preparation, Properties and Prospects

Preparation and Characterisation of Perovskite Type Semiconducting Thin Films

Fabrication and Application of Surface Relief due to Mass Migration

Aligned-Crystalline Silicon Films on Polycrystalline Metal-Alloy Substrates

Progress in SPM-based Ultrahigh Density Information Storage

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