TY - BOOK AU - Agrawal,Dinesh Chandra TI - Introduction to nanoscience and nanomaterials SN - 9789814397971 (hardback) AV - QC176.8.N35 A387 2013 U1 - 620.5 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Singapore, London PB - World Scientific Publishing KW - Nanoscience KW - Nanostructured materials KW - Nanostructures KW - Nanotechnology N1 - engineering bookfair2015; Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-552) and index; Introduction; Surfaces; Molecules for Nanotechnology: Polymers, Biopolymers, Dendrimers, Surfactants; Review of Some Topics in Physics; Zero Dimensional Nanostructures: I. The Semiconductor Quantum Dots; Zero Dimensional Nanostructures: II. The Metal Nanoparticles; Zero Dimensional Nanostructures: III. Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Materials; Zero Dimensional Nanostructures: IV. Colloids and Colloidal Crystals; Carbon Nanostructures; Other One Dimensional Nanostructures; Two Dimensional Nanostructures; Bulk Nanostructured Materials; Polymer Nanocomposites; Self Assembly and Self Organization N2 - Providing a broad perspective, this book emphasizes basics of nanoscience and nanoscale materials and goes into sufficient depth for the reader to be able to handle numerical problems. Each chapter offers solved examples to aid understanding and a set of problems is also given at the end ER -