1st Edition
21st Century Nanoscience – A Handbook Nanophysics Sourcebook (Volume One)
This up-to-date reference is the most comprehensive summary of the field of nanoscience and its applications. It begins with fundamental properties at the nanoscale and then goes well beyond into the practical aspects of the design, synthesis, and use of nanomaterials in various industries. It emphasizes the vast strides made in the field over the past decade – the chapters focus on new, promising directions as well as emerging theoretical and experimental methods. The contents incorporate experimental data and graphs where appropriate, as well as supporting tables and figures with a tutorial approach.
1 Theoretical Atto-nano Physics
M. F. Ciappina and M. Lewenstein
2 The de Broglie Wave Nature of Molecules, Clusters and Nanoparticles
Stefan Gerlich, Stefan Kuhn, Armin Shayeghi, and Markus Arndt
3 Electromagnetic Nanonetworks
Md. Humaun Kabir and Kyung Sup Kwak
4 Nanoscale Energy Transport
Jafar Ghazanfarian, Zahra Shomali and Shiyun Xiong
5 Coulomb Effects and Exotic Charge Transport in Nanostructured Materials
Monique Tie and Al-Amin Dhirani
6 Spin-Dependent Thermoelectric Currents in Nanostructures (Tunnel Junctions, Thin Films, Small Rings and Quantum Dots)
K.H. Bennemann
7 Joule Heat Generation by Electric Current in Nanostructures
S. V. Gantsevich and V. L. Gurevich
8 Quantum Transport Simulations of Nano-systems: An Introduction to the Green's
Function Approach
Andrea Droghetti and Ivan Rungger
9 Transient Quantum Transport in Nanostructures
Pei-Yun Yang, Yu-Wei Huang, and Wei-Min Zhang
10 Thermal Transport in Nanofilms
Yu-Chao Hua, Dao-Sheng Tang, and Bing-Yang Cao
11 Thermal Transport and Phonon Coherence in Phononic Nanostructures
Juan Sebastian Reparaz and Markus R. Wagner
12 Quantum Chaotic Systems and Random Matrix Theory
Akhilesh Pandey, Avanish Kumar, and Sanjay Puri
13 Topological Constraint Theory and Rigidity of Glasses
Mathieu Bauchy
14 Topological Descriptors of Carbon Nanostructures
Sakander Hayat
15 Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Electronic State Calculation on Supercomputer
Takeo Hoshi, Yusaku Yamamoto, Tomohiro Sogabe, Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo,
Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv Kalia, and Priya Vashishta
16 Atomistic Simulation of Disordered Nano-electronics
Youqi Ke
17 Ab Initio Simulations of Carboxylated Nanomaterials
Vivian Machado de Menezes and Ivi Valentini Lara
18 Phase Behavior of Atomic and Molecular Nanosystems
R. Stephen Berry
19 Exact solutions in the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent DFT of
Mesoscopic Systems
Vladimir U. Nazarov
20 Molecular Simulation of Porous Graphene
Ziqi Tian, Haoran Guo, Liang Chen, and Chad Priest
21 Metallic Nanoglasses Investigated by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
D. Sopu and O. Adjaoud
Biography
Klaus D. Sattler pursued his undergraduate and master’s courses at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. He received his PhD under the guidance of Professors G. Busch and H.C. Siegmann at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He was at the University of California, Berkeley, for three years as a Heisenberg fellow, where he initiated the first studies of atomic clusters on surfaces with a scanning tunneling microscope. Dr. Sattler accepted a position as professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1988. In 1994, his group produced the first carbon nanocones. His current work focuses on novel nanomaterials and solar photocatalysis with nanoparticles for the purification of water. He is the editor of the sister references, Carbon Nanomaterials Sourcebook (2016) and Silicon Nanomaterials Sourcebook (2017), as well as Fundamentals of Picoscience (2014). Among his many other accomplishments, Dr. Sattler was awarded the prestigious Walter Schottky Prize from the German Physical Society in 1983. At the University of Hawaii, he teaches courses in general physics, solid state physics, and quantum mechanics.