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Quantum Materials, Devices, and Applications
1st Edition - August 24, 2022
Editors: Mohamed Henini, Marcelo Oliveira Rodrigues
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 5 6 6 - 2
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 9 1 3 - 4
Quantum Materials, Devices, and Applications covers the advances made in quantum technologies, both in research and mass production for applications in electronics, photonics,… Read more
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Quantum Materials, Devices, and Applications covers the advances made in quantum technologies, both in research and mass production for applications in electronics, photonics, sensing, biomedical, environmental and agricultural applications. The book includes new materials, new device structures that are commercially available, and many more at the advanced research stage. It reviews the most relevant, current and emerging materials and device structures, organized by key applications and covers existing devices, technologies and future possibilities within a common framework of high-performance quantum devices.
This book will be ideal for researchers and practitioners in academia, industry and those in materials science and engineering, electrical engineering and physics disciplines.
- Comprehensively covers the important and rapidly growing area of quantum technologies by focusing on current and emerging materials, devices and applications
- Takes an applied approach to the topic by addressing key applications in electronics, optoelectronics, photonics, sensing and the environment
- Addresses ethical considerations, remaining challenges and future opportunities for quantum materials and devices
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- 1. Quantum dots and bioimaging
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Applications of quantum dots in bioimaging
- 1.3 Quantum dots and in vitro bioimaging
- 1.4 Quantum dots and in vivo bioimaging
- 1.5 Quantum dots and theranostics
- 1.6 Other applications of quantum dots
- 1.7 Toxicity issues
- 1.8 Novel types of quantum dots
- 1.9 Conclusion
- References
- 2. 2D quantum materials and sensors devices
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Types of quantum materials for sensing applications
- 2.3 Sensors based on quantum materials
- 2.4 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 3. Superconducting quantum magnetic sensing
- Abstract
- 3.1 Principles of superconducting quantum magnetic sensing
- 3.2 Main SQUID configurations
- 3.3 Main SQUID applications
- 3.4 Conclusions and perspectives
- References
- 4. Nano-engineered composites based on carbon nitride as potential agents for the remediation of water with micropollutants
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Industrial-origin contaminants and antibiotics: dangerous micropollutants to the environment and health
- 4.3 Carbon nitride
- 4.4 Improving the efficiency in environmental remediation applications: the CN nanocomposites
- 4.5 Final considerations
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 5. Quantum materials for emerging agrochemicals
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Nanomaterials and quantum nanomaterials: the applicable properties for agriculture
- 5.3 Agrochemicals and the niches for quantum materials
- 5.4 Use of quantum materials as agrochemicals
- 5.5 Conclusions
- References
- 6. Quantum dot materials, devices, and their applications in photomedicine
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Fundamentals
- 6.3 QD materials’ development and applications
- 6.4 Development and application of QD devices in photomedicine
- 6.5 Conclusion and outlook
- References
- 7. Carbon dots (C-dots): fluorescence processes and bioimaging
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 C-dots fluorescent emissive processes
- 7.3 C-dots in bioimaging experiments
- 7.4 Summary and outlook
- References
- 8. Quantum tunneling nanoelectromechanical system devices for biomedical applications
- Abstract
- 8.1 MEMS and NEMS sensors and sensing in biomedical applications
- 8.2 Quantum tunneling
- 8.3 Design and proof of concept for quantum tunneling NEMS sensors
- 8.4 New quantum tunneling metrology for cantilever-based devices
- 8.5 Final word: future prospects for NEMS in biomedical applications
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 9. Quantum dots: an emerging implication of nanotechnology in cancer diagnosis and therapy
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Pathophysiology of cancer
- 9.3 Present diagnostic methods
- 9.4 Nanotechnology in cancer
- 9.5 Quantum dots
- 9.6 Properties of quantum dots
- 9.7 Quantum dots in cancer diagnosis and therapy
- 9.8 Toxicity of quantum dots
- 9.9 Conclusion and future prospects
- References
- 10. Nanotechnology for cosmetics applications—a journey in innovation
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Nanocosmetic definitions
- 10.3 Inorganic nanoparticles used in cosmetics
- 10.4 Organic nanoparticles used in cosmetics
- 10.5 Nanocarriers used to improve the cosmetic ingredient
- 10.6 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 298
- Language: English
- Published: August 24, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128205662
- eBook ISBN: 9780128209134
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Mohamed Henini
Dr M. Henini has over 20 years’ experience of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth and has published >700 papers. He has particular interests in the MBE growth and physics of self-assembled quantum dots using electronic, optical and structural techniques. Leaders in the field of self-organisation of nanostructures will give an account on the formation, properties, and self-organization of semiconductor nanostructures.
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, UKMR
Marcelo Oliveira Rodrigues
Dr. Rodrigues is an Adjunct Professor of the Chemistry Institute of the University of Brasília-UNB. He served as Chief of the Research and Technological Innovation Sector of the Hospital Universitário de Brasília-HUB between 2013-2015. He holds a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Sergipe (2004), a Master's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Sergipe (2007), a PhD in Chemistry from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2010) and PhD at Aveiro University. program RH-INCT / INAMI. He has experience in the field of Inorganic Chemistry, with emphasis on synthesis, structural characterization, and spectroscopic studies of coordination compounds.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor of the Chemistry Institute of the University of Brasília-UNB.