Nanostructure science is a broad area of research has the potential for revolutionizing the ways in which materials and products are created. Nanostructured materials may be defined as those materials whose structural elements, clusters, crystallelites and molecules have dimensions in the 1 to 100nm range. Over the last two decades the development and improvement of techniques to fabricate and characterize nanoscale materials has fueled much of the enormous growth in nanoscale science and technology, not only making nanoscale materials relatively easily available for scientific study and characterization but also in some instances, opening the door for large-scale industrial use. This book details recent advances in the synthesis and investigation of functional materials, focusing on the novel size dependent physics and chemistry that results when atoms and electrons are confined within nanoscale semiconductors and metal clusters. Nanostructure science and technology is a broad and interdisciplinary area of research and development activity that has been growing explosively worldwide in the past few years. It has the potential for revolutionizing the ways in which materials and products are created and the range and nature of functionalities that can be accessed. It is already having a significant commercial impact, which surely will increase in the future and this has been discussed at length in this volume.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ashish Bharadwaj
Prof. Ashish Bharadwaj is a co-technology enthusiast and had been the graduate student of Dr. Diwan. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the area of 'Advanced IT Applications'. He is currently the head of 'academic computing department' in the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies and is a practicing consultant in the IT field. He has worked in a cross section of industries including oil and gas, insurance and hospitality. He has conducted several management development program in the areas of E-business, E-security, Network Management and Performance Optimization. He specializes in the area of Systems Management. He has to his credit more than ten papers and articles in various national and international journals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Parag Diwan
Dr. Parag Diwan is a high technology buff, having worked with organizations like NASA and Semiconductors Complex Ltd. Different facets of high technology from rocket science to micro-circuits fascinate him. Currently, apart from his other multifarious interests and responsibilities, he is deeply interested in harnessing the power of ten raised to minus nine, i.e. the nano-world. He is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. Prior to this he was the Dean and Director of the All India Management Association (AIMA). He has also been the CEO of a dotcom venture in the golden days of the E-commerce revolution. He has authored and edited over 40 books, 200 technical and research papers and many multimedia (CD-ROM & Video) based learning modules.
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