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Comprehensive Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

  • 2nd Edition - January 2, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Thomas Nann, Robert H. Lipson, David Andrews
  • Language: English

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Description

Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology, Second Edition, Five Volume Set allows researchers to navigate a very diverse, interdisciplinary and rapidly-changing field with up-to-date, comprehensive and authoritative coverage of every aspect of modern nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Key features

  • Presents new chapters on the latest developments in the field
  • Covers topics not discussed to this degree of detail in other works, such as biological devices and applications of nanotechnology
  • Compiled and written by top international authorities in the field

Readership

Academic Researchers, lecturers of postgraduates and graduate level students across the broad spectrum of fields involving nanoscience and technology: chemistry, physics, material science, engineering, biology and bio-medical research. Researchers in industry, including policymakers and consultants i.e. nano research laboratories and institutes, professional corporations with activities related to nano and bio-materials and materials science

Table of contents

Sections on:
Nanomaterials
Biological Nanoscience
Nanochemistry
Nanofabrication
Applications of Nanoscience

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 2, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Thomas Nann

Professor Thomas Nann is Director of the MacDiarmid Institute, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests focus on the synthesis, characterisation and application of functional nanomaterials and their application in the areas of energy, health and catalysis. He is a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and American Chemical Society (ACS), and serves on the Editorial boards of several journals (Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, Science of Advanced Materials (SAMs), Nano Biomedicine and Engineering (NBE), Nanomaterials (founding Editor-in-chief), Microchimica Acta). Nann was one of the Advisory Editors on the 1st edition of Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology. He has 112 documents listed on Scopus, H-index 33.
Affiliations and expertise
Director of the MacDiarmid Institute, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

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Robert H. Lipson

Professor Rob Lipson is Dean of Science and leads a research group in physical, analytical and materials chemistry at University of Victoria, Canada. He teaches or has taught a wide variety of courses including first year chemistry, introductory physical chemistry, quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, group theory, thermodynamics, and photophysics. Previously he was Director of the Western Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Western University, has served on the Editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry, and is Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. Lipson has 99 documents on Scopus, H-index 20.
Affiliations and expertise
Dean of Science and Lead, Research Group in Physical, Analytical and Materials Chemistry, University of Victoria, Canada

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David Andrews

David L. Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research, covering a wide range of topics in spectroscopy, optics, photonics, and quantum science, has produced over four hundred scientific papers, nearly all of them applying the tools of molecular quantum electrodynamics. As an author and editor, he has already published more than twenty books, including Lasers in Chemistry, Resonance Energy Transfer, Structured Light and its Applications, Optical Nanomanipulation, and an Introduction to Photon Science and Technology. David has organized more than a hundred international conferences, both in Europe and North America, including several now well-established series: Complex Light and Optical Forces at Photonics West, Nanophotonics at Photonics Europe, and several iterations of the International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum. He is an awardee of the RSC Horizon Prize in 2022 and the IOP Thomas Young Award in 2023. David is a Fellow of SPIE – the international society for optics and photonics; also Optica; the Institute of Physics; and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He served as elected President of SPIE in 2021.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

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