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This book provides a comprehensive overview on multifunctional molecular materials that involve coexistence or interplay or synergy between multiple physical properties focusing on electrical conductivity, magnetism, single-molecule magnets behavior, chirality, spin crossover, and luminescence. The book¿s coverage ranges from transition metals and lanthanide coordination complexes to genuine organic materials. The book also discusses some potentialities of applications of these materials in molecule-based devices.

This volume charts the progress made in the use of quantum dots as the signaling component in optical sensors since their discovery in the early 1980s. It focuses on CdS-, CdSe-, and CdTe-type quantum dots due to their emission in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The book details the range of methods currently used for the preparation and passivation of core/core-shell quantum dots, discusses their electrochemical properties and potential toxicity, and explains how electron and energy transfer mechanisms can be used to generate a range of quantum dot-based probes.

Low temperature is an extreme condition which has always attracted scientists. At such low (cryogenic) temperatures the thermal, electric, and magnetic properties of many substances undergo great change, and the behavior of matter is very different from that at room temperature. This book deals with the field of low-temperature research.

Three-dimensional (3D) integration is identified as a possible avenue for continuous performance growth in integrated circuits (IC). Wafer level 3D IC can take several forms, and they usually include a stack of several thinned IC layers that are vertically bonded and interconnected by through silicon via TSV. This book presents contributions by key researchers in this field, covering motivations, technology platforms, applications, and other design issues.

Provides a broad overview of nanotechnology as applied to contemporary electronics and photonics. This book covers nanoscale materials and devices for both electronics and optical technologies. It emphasises on experimental methods rather than theoretical modeling.

Semiconductor nanostructures provide simultaneously various ways of qubit implementation as well as a way to transfer quantum information from these stationary qubits to flying qubits (photons). This book highlights the qubit implementations in semiconductors and provides an overview of this field.

This book is composed of 12 chapters covering relevant topics of ultrafast laser processing, including laser itself and novel beam manipulation methods for processing, fundamentals of ultrafast laser processing, nanomaterial synthesis, surface micro- and nanostructuring, micromachining, two-photon photopolymerization, internal modification/fabrication of transparent materials, applications to photonic devices and microchips for biological analysis, industrial applications, and so on. Each chapter is written by world-leading scientists in the related field so as to give comprehensive reviews in the field of ultrafast laser micro- and nanoprocessing.

This book proposes and reviews comprehensive strategies based on optical electronics for constructing optoelectronic systems with minimized optics excess. It describes the core technologies such as self-organized optical waveguides based on self-organized lightwave network (SOLNET), three-dimensional optical circuits, material-saving heterogeneous thin-film device integration process (PL-Pack with SORT), and high-speed/small-size light modulators and optical switches. The book also presents applications of optical electronics, including integrated optical interconnects within computers and massive optical switching systems utilizing three-dimensional self-organized optical circuits, solar energy conversion systems, and bio/medical photonics such as cancer therapy.

In recent years, the understanding of the pathophysiological processes of atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease of the vessel wall being the leading cause for mortality in industrial countries, has tremendously increased. The feasibility of translating such knowledge to novel therapeutic approaches is currently being explored at various levels. This book highlights advances in atherosclerosis and links these to relevant therapeutic strategies. It compiles and details cutting-edge research in cardiovascular medicine from internationally renowned authors.

The interest in finding reliable and highly sensitive sensors for water quality control has grown recently empowered by the explosion of cutting-edge technologies such as nanotechnologies, optoelectronics, and computing on one hand and by the increasing need for more secure control of water quality on the other hand. This book highlights a number of modern topics in the field of biosensing particularly for water sensing in which the signal is enhanced, starting from surface enhanced spectroscopies using plasmonic structures such as Raman scattering (SERS), infrared enhanced absorption (SEIRA), and surface enhanced fluorescence (SEF).

Fuel cell systems are being commercialized. Most noteworthy are low-temperature PEM fuel cell systems that are economically attractive for applications including backup power systems and material handling (forklifts). This book details the advances of fuel cell systems incorporating methanol reformers as the source of purified hydrogen.

Argues that the overall trajectory pursued through nanotechnology provides little hope for a more equitable world.

Superconductors (SC) reveal deep insight of physical properties of condensed matters. In particular, recent advancement of carbon-based new SCs (CNSC) is significant. This book describes basic physics and the recent advancement of CNSC, such as diamond, graphite, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, and others.

Self-Field Theory (SFT) is a recent development that has evolved from the classical electromagnetics of the electron's self fields that were studied by Abraham and Lorentz in 1903-4. This book deals with the topic of Self-Field Theory (SFT), a new mathematical description of physics distinct from quantum field theory.

A promising class of carbon-based nanostructured materials, varied from empty caged fullerenes and endohedral metallofullerenes to carbon nanotubes and nanohorns, has led to an explosion of research associated with nanotechnology. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the state-of-knowledge of this subject.

Magnetoelectric composites, which simultaneously exhibit ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism, have recently stimulated a sharply increasing number of research activities. This book discusses these bulk and nanostructured magnetoelectric composites both in experimental and theoretical.

The growing interest in the miniaturization of magnetic storage media and the quest for novel spintronics applications rely on element specific detection of spin and orbital magnetic moments in a solid. This book describes EMCD (energy loss magnetic chiral dichroism), a phenomenon in energy loss spectroscopy discovered in 2006.

Semiconductor photonics is a cross discipline between materials, physics, chemistry, opto and electronic devices. This is a collection of selected papers presented in Symposium O of Compound Semiconductor Photonics in the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technology (ICMAT), which was held in Singapore on 28 June-3 July 2009.

Offers an overview of the state of research in both synchrotron radiation and structural proteomics from different laboratories all over the world, trying to touch all possible aspects of frontier research in this area. This book offers the reader insight in the real progress done in the leading research laboratories of different countries.

The Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) world is one of the most fascinated fields of research with an enormous technological application market. This book addresses the development of OLEDs based on rare-earth and transition-metal complexes, focusing in special the Europium, Terbium, Ruthenium and Rhenium.

Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology to health, raises high expectations for millions of patients for better, more efficient and affordable healthcare and has the potential of delivering promising solutions to many illnesses. This book focuses on the broad area of application of Nanotechnology in Human health.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the use of noble metal nanoparticles for bioimaging and biosensing. This book starts with a review on the synthesis, characterization, optical properties, and bioconjugation of noble metal nanoparticles, followed by introduction of various biodetection techniques based on noble metal nanoparticles.

Focuses on the discovery components and the toxicological perspectives of nano-materials. This book deals with the basics of nano-imaging techniques required for diagnostics, the underlying principles using which the nanomedicine discoveries are made, nano-oncology, nano-hematology, and nano-inspired discovery of low cost diagnostic techniques.

Biological molecular motors provide most cells with the dynamic systems required for their day-to-day existence. Examples exist occur in even the simplest organism (for example, a bacteria virus) and the range of tasks that they carry out is vast. This book describes a range of molecular motors, ranging from chemical motors to biological motors.

Unlike amino acids and nucleic acids, carbohydrates have been disregarded for a longer time by the scientific community. This book covers such topics as: Oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates in recognition processes; carbohydrate modifying enzymes; and, carbohydrate-modifying enzymes for unusual sugar biosynthesis.

Provides comprehensive coverage on the instrumentation and experimental methodology of photo- and electroluminescent properties of nanomaterials. Just as importantly, this title also outlines key historical developments and perspectives of nanotechnology,