Visionneuse

Date_TXT

Allemagne: Wiley-VCH; 2013

Auteur

Dieter Vollath

Sujet

Nanostructured materials; Nanostructures; Matériaux nanostructurés

Type de document

Livre

Description :

This book is an introduction to nanomaterials; one may consider it as an approach to
a textbook. It is based on the course on Nanomaterials for Engineers that I give at the
University of Technology in Graz, Austria, and on the courses that NanoConsulting
organizes for participants from industry and academia. I want to provoke your
curiosity. The reader should feel invited to learn more about nanomaterials, to use
nanomaterials, and to want to go beyond the content of this book. However, even
when it is thought of as an introduction, reading this book requires some basic
knowledge of physics and chemistry. I have tried to describe the mechanisms
determining the properties of nanoparticles in a simplified way. Therefore, specialists in the different fields may feel uncomfortable with the outcome, but I saw no
other way to describe the mechanisms leading to the fascinating properties of
nanoparticles for a broader audience.
I am fully aware of the fact that the selection of examples from the literature is, to
some extent, biased against those who discovered these new phenomena. However,
in most cases, where a new phenomenon was described for the first time, the effect
is just shown in principle. Later papers only had a chance when they showed these
phenomena very clearly. Therefore, from the viewpoint of a textbook, the later papers
are preferred. I really apologize this selection of literature.
Many exciting phenomena and processes are connected with nanoparticles.
However, the size of this book is limited and, therefore, I had to make a selection
of the topics presented. Unavoidably, such a selection was inevitably influenced by
personal experience and preferences. Again, I apologize if the reader does not find
information on a field that is important for their company or institution.
I hope the reader will find this book inspiring, and will be motivated to go deeper
into this fascinating field of science and technology.
This is now the second edition and I am so thankful for all the kind reviews of the
previous edition in different journals. I have now reshuffled the chapters according
to my current views. Some topics have been removed, because scientific or
technological developments did not go as expected, and a few new and exciting
topics have been added.