Download or read book Bio Inspired Organic Inorganic Hybrid Electronic and Photonic Materials and Structures written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this project was to use DNA and protein as templates to assemble nanoparticles and functional molecules for photonic and electronic applications such as plasmon-enhanced fluorescence and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) (Fig. 1). Towards this goal, we have utilized both genetic and materials engineering tools. We have followed the molecular biomimetic approach in the assembly of nanoparticles. We have developed protocols using involving biological attachment of nanoparticles and quantum dots onto engineered surface-binding polypeptides (GEPI), and have used directed assembly of nanoparticles and/or functional molecular units.
Download or read book Handbook of Organic Materials for Electronic and Photonic Devices written by Oksana Ostroverkhova and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Organic Materials for Electronic and Photonic Devices, Second Edition, provides an overview of the materials, mechanisms, characterization techniques, structure-property relationships, and most promising applications of organic materials. This new release includes new content on emerging organic materials, expanded content on the basic physics behind electronic properties, and new chapters on organic photonics. As advances in organic materials design, fabrication, and processing that enabled charge unprecedented carrier mobilities and power conversion efficiencies have made dramatic advances since the first edition, this latest release presents a necessary understanding of the underlying physics that enabled novel material design and improved organic device design. Provides a comprehensive overview of the materials, mechanisms, characterization techniques, and structure property relationships of organic electronic and photonic materials Reviews key applications, including organic solar cells, light-emitting diodes electrochemical cells, sensors, transistors, bioelectronics, and memory devices New content to reflect latest advances in our understanding of underlying physics to enable material design and device fabrication
Download or read book Materials Research to Meet 21st Century Defense Needs written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-25 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to achieve the revolutionary new defense capabilities offered by materials science and engineering, innovative management to reduce the risks associated with translating research results will be needed along with the R&D. While payoff is expected to be high from the promising areas of materials research, many of the benefits are likely to be evolutionary. Nevertheless, failure to invest in more speculative areas of research could lead to undesired technological surprises. Basic research in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science will provide the seeds for potentially revolutionary technologies later in the 21st century.
Download or read book Bioinspired Inorganic Materials written by Simon R Hall and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of novel materials whose structure, properties or function are inspired by nature or living matter is a wide and dynamically evolving field. There is virtually no field of scientific endeavour that has not felt the touch of the ‘bioinspired’ ethos. Bioinspired Inorganic Materials provides an up-to-date review of the research, with some historical context. The emphasis throughout is on how bioinspiration is being used for cutting-edge applications. Chapters in the book cover big breakthroughs in bioinspiration for energy applications, surface technology, metamaterials and ceramics for regenerative medicine. Edited and written by world-renowned scientists, this book will provide a comprehensive introduction for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers wishing to learn about the topic.
Download or read book Bioinspired Design of Materials Surfaces written by Yongmei Zheng and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioinspired Design of Materials Surfaces reviews novel methods and technologies used to design surfaces and materials for smart material and device applications. The author discusses how materials wettability can be impacted by the fabrication of micro- and nanostructures, anisotropic structures, gradient structures, and heterogeneous patterned structures on the surfaces of materials. The design of these structures was inspired by nature, including lotus, cactus, beetle back and butterfly wings, spider silk, and shells. The author reviews the various wettability functions that can result from these designs, such as self-cleaning, directional adhesion, droplet driving, anti-adhesion, non-wetting, liquid repellent properties, liquid separation, liquid splitting, and more. This book presents a key reference on how to fabricate bioinspired structures on materials for desired functions of materials wettability. It also discusses challenges, opportunities and many potential applications, such as oil-water separation devices, water harvesting devices and photonic device applications. Introduces the fundamentals of both bioinspired materials design and the theory behind dynamic materials wettability Reviews the latest methods and technologies used to create functional surfaces and structured materials that impact and potentially control wettability Provides a snapshot of potential device applications, such as oil-water separation, water harvesting, fluid transport, photonic applications, and much more
Download or read book Bioinspired Materials Surfaces written by Yongmei Zheng and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the functions and models of biological surfaces with unique wettability and elucidates the methods to realize bioinspired surfaces. It discusses the theory and mechanism of fabrication that will help researchers to understand the nature of functional surfaces and to design them better for various applications. A model can be extracted from biological surfaces, such as lotus leaf, spider silk, butterfly wing, and beetle back, and learning from these natural biological features has gained more attention in recent years. The purpose of this learning is to develop new functional materials related to the research areas of physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science, such as some promising applications for micro-fluidic devices and functional textiles as well as corrosion resistance, liquid transportation, antifogging, and water-collecting engineering systems. The book is a good resource for researchers, engineers, scientists, and also students and general readers with innovative ideas for designing novel materials for future scientific works.
Download or read book Nucleation of Minerals Precursors Intermediates and Their Use in Materials Chemistry written by Denis Gebauer and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Nucleation of Minerals: Precursors, Intermediates and Their Use in Materials Chemistry" that was published in Minerals
Download or read book Handbook of Organic Electronics and Photonics Electronic materials and devices written by Hari Singh Nalwa and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 1585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Nalwa (founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology), organic materials and polymers offer a range of advantages in electronic and photonic applications, including a higher degree of tailoring and versatility in the manipulation of their physical properties, ease of modification and functionalization, ease of processing and fabrication, low-cost mass production, environmental stability, and biocompatibility. He presents a three-volume handbook covering the synthesis and electrical properties of these materials, as well as a range of applications. The first volume, on electronic materials and devices, includes 13 chapters discussing such topics as synthetic approaches to band gap control in conjugated polymeric materials; synthesis, characteristics, and applications of conducting polymer nanotubes, nanowires, and nanocomposites; charge transport and morphology in conjugated polymers; nano/microfabrication techniques for organic electronics and photonics, self-assembled supramolecular structures for organic electronics and photonics; organic thin-film transistor fundamentals and applications; electropolymers for mechtronics and artificial muscles; and biologically inspired large contraction conducting polymer actuators. The second volume switches focus towards photonic materials and devices and includes 12 chapters discussing such topics as organic nonlinear optical crystals and single-crystalline thin films, organic semiconducting thin films, organic random lasers, nonlinear optical properties of organometallic and metalloorganic compounds, nonlinear optical responses and photoinduced electron transfer process in phthalocyanines and related compounds, liquid crystal diffractive optical elements, magnetoresistance and spin effects in organic light-emitting diodes, and photoinduced transfer between electron donors and fullerenes as unique electron acceptors. The final volume is concerned with devices and includes 10 chapters on such topics single-molecule transistors; nanostructured arrays as suitable materials for batteries, sensors, and electrochromic devices; organic field-effect transistors; flexible display applications in organic electronics and photonics; physics and technology and organic light emitting diodes; organic and polymeric solar cells; luminescent lanthanide complexes for advanced photonic applications; and DNA based biosensors.
Download or read book Organic inorganic Hybrid Materials for Solution processed Photonic Applications written by Andrew Strang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photonic Materials for Sensing Biosensing and Display Devices written by Michael J. Serpe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the basics and applications of photonic materials. It focuses on the utility of these devices for sensing, biosensing, and displays. The book includes fundamental aspects with a particular focus on the application of photonic materials. The field of photonic materials is both a burgeoning, and mature field. There are new advances being made on a daily basis, all based on the fundamental roots set by work by those like Ozin, Thomas, Asher, and others.
Download or read book Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electronic Properties of Organic inorganic Hybrid Structures written by Yang Li and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conductive organic polymers and inorganic quantum dots hybrid systems are widely studied for their interesting optical and electronic properties. Both conductive polymers and quantum dots have tunable energy gap and ionization potential by the means of chemical modification. Also both of them are easy to be processed to form large-area devices. Exact mechanisms of charge transfer and transport in organic-inorganic hybrid system are not clearly understood. This work is focused on building a variety of organic-inorganic hybrid structures, using optical and electronic methods to characterize them, and trying to understand the charge transfer and transport from the results.
Download or read book Handbook of Humidity Measurement Volume 1 written by Ghenadii Korotcenkov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of The Handbook of Humidity Measurement focuses on the review of devices based on optical principles of measurement such as optical UV, fluorescence hygrometers, optical and fiber-optic sensors of various types. Numerous methods for monitoring the atmosphere have been developed in recent years, based on measuring the absorption of electromagnetic field in different spectral ranges. These methods, covering the optical (FTIR and Lidar techniques), as well as a microwave and THz ranges are discussed in detail in this volume. The role of humidity-sensitive materials in optical and fiber-optic sensors is also detailed. This volume describes the reasons for controlling the humidity, features of water and water vapors, and units used for humidity measurement.
Download or read book OLED Fundamentals written by Daniel J. Gaspar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comprehensive Source for Taking on the Next Stage of OLED R&DOLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes brings together key topics across the field of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), from fundamental chemistry and physics to practical materials science and engineering aspects to design and ma
Download or read book Bionanoelectronics written by Daniela Dragoman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the achievements in bionanoelectronics in a coherent manner. It deals with nanodevices applied to biostructures, molecular motors, molecular pumps, molecular nanoactuators and electronic biodevices, including nanodevices for sensing and imaging biomolcules. The book describes bionanoelectronics, detection of biomolecules and targets various biological applications such as detection and sequencing of DNA and early detection of various deseases and nanomedicine. Further important topics of the book are biomimetics and bioinspired electronics.The book also deals with biomolecules as building blocks of nanodevices for nanoelectronics or future computing architecture The application of scanning probe techniques to biological samples is described.
Download or read book Materials Research to Meet 21st Century Defense Needs written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to achieve the revolutionary new defense capabilities offered by materials science and engineering, innovative management to reduce the risks associated with translating research results will be needed along with the R&D. While payoff is expected to be high from the promising areas of materials research, many of the benefits are likely to be evolutionary. Nevertheless, failure to invest in more speculative areas of research could lead to undesired technological surprises. Basic research in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science will provide the seeds for potentially revolutionary technologies later in the 21st century.
Download or read book Natural Photonics and Bioinspiration written by Olivier Deparis and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photonic structures occurring in biological tissues such as butterfly wings, beetle elytra or fish scales are responsible for a broad range of optical effects including iridescence, narrow-band reflection, large solid-angle scattering, polarization effects, additive color mixing, fluid-induced color changes, controlled fluorescence. Studies have provided understanding of the underlying optical mechanisms and the biological functions as well as inspiration for the design and development of novel photonic devices, also called bioinspiration. In this forward-thinking book, the research related to photonic structures in natural organisms is reviewed with a main foPhotonic structures occurring in biological tissues such as butterfly wings, beetle elytra, or fish scales are responsible for a broad range of optical effects including iridescence, narrow band reflection, large solid-angle scattering, polarization, additive color mixing, fluid induced color changes, and controlled fluorescence. This book reviews research of biological photonic devices in accordance with the fundamental aspects of physical optics and environmental biology. It provides readers with an understanding of numerical modelling based on morphological and optical characterizations as well as the quantitative treatment of color vision. This forward-thinking book ties these concepts to the design and synthesis of bioinspired photonic devices and opens the door to the applications of nature’s lessons in the technical world. This resource introduces a methodology for working with and utilizing bioinspiration. It includes the experimental and numerical tools necessary for the characterization and simulation of photonic structures and uses original concepts as examples, with a focus on bioinspired hygrochromatic materials. Professionals are brought up to speed on a variety of fabrication techniques and methods of synthesis all following a straightforward bottom-up or top-down approach. The reader will gain an understanding of the capability of bioinspiration to meet human needs. This book’s explanation of how natural photonics structures behave as efficient solar absorbers or thermal management devices makes it a useful resource for technical professionals in the field of energy and environment, and the concepts presented in this book also have applications in the designs of optical coatings, sensors, and light sources.
