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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Handbook of
Theoretical
and Computational Nanotechnology
Handbook of
Nanostructured
Biomaterials
and Their Applications
in Nanobiotechnology
Molecular
Nanoelectronics
Magnetic
Nanostructures
Quantum
Dots
and Nanowires
Synthesis,
Functionalization
and Surface Treatment
of Nanoparticles
Nanoclusters
and Nanocrystals
Handbook of
Organic-Inorganic
Hybrid Materials
and Nanocomposites
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Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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EDITOR
Hari
Singh Nalwa
Editor-in-Chief,
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
American Scientific
Publishers
25650 North Lewis Way
Stevenson Ranch,
California 91381-1439, USA |
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| INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY
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Pulickel
M. Ajayan, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA
Sivaram Arepalli,
NASA Johnson Space Center, USA
Yoshio Bando,
National Institute for Materials Science, JAPAN
Ray
Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Marie-Isabelle
Baraton, University of Limoges, FRANCE
François
Béguin, Centre de Recherche sur la Matiere Divisee,
FRANCE
Flemming Besenbacher, University of
Aarhus, DENMARK
Gan-Moog Chow, National
University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
Herbert Gleiter,
Institute of Nanotechnology, GERMANY
Wolfram Heimbrodt,
Philipps University Marburg, GERMANY
Jeff T. M. De
Hosson, University of Groningen, NETHERLANDS
Akihisa
Inoue, Tohoku University, JAPAN
Jean-Marie
Lehn*, University of Louis Pasteur, FRANCE
Reghu
Menon, Indian Institute of Science, INDIA
M.
Meyyappan, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Paolo
Milani, University of Milano, ITALY
Koichi
Niihara, Osaka University, JAPAN
R. E. Palmer,
University of Birmingham, UK
Stephen J. Pearton,
University of Florida, USA
Ron Reifenberger,
Purdue University, USA
A.M. Rao, Clemson
University, USA
C. N. R. Rao, Jawaharlal
Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, INDIA
Mark
A. Reed, Yale University, USA
Hans-Eckhardt
Schaefer, Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY
Helmut Schmidt, Institut für Neue Materialien,
GERMANY
Nadrian C. Seeman, New York
University, USA
Richard W. Siegel, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA
Susan B. Sinnott,
University of Florida, USA
Richard E. Smalley*,
Rice University, USA
Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres,
University of Wuppertal, GERMANY
Deepak Srivastava,
NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Kang L. Wang,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CHINA
Zhong Lin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Christiane Ziegler, University of
Kaiserslautern, GERMANY
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| ABOUT THE EDITOR
(Dr. Hari Singh Nalwa) |
| "People are in awe of the quality
and quantity of the book series Dr. Nalwa have produced. It's quite
amazing and a real service to the scientific community." |
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Professor
Stephen Pearton, University of Florida, USA
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| Dr.
Hari Singh Nalwa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal
of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (www.aspbs.com/jnn). He is
well known throughout scientific community for his monumental work
on "Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology"
(Vols.1-5, Academic Press, 1999) which received the Award of
Excellence from the Association of American Publishers.
After the publication of this multivolume handbook, he started the
most ambitious publication project of the Encyclopedia of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in summer 2000 to bring the first
encyclopedia in the field of nanotechnology. He was the Head of
Department and R&D Manager at Ciba Specialty Chemical
Corporation in USA and a staff scientist at the Hitachi Research
Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. Japan (1990-1999). While working at Hitachi
Ltd., he was also concurrently an Honorary Visiting Professor at the
Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. He was the founder and
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Porphyrins and
Phthalocyanines published by John Wiley (1997-2000). He has
also been on the Editorial Board of several international journals
as well a referee for many journals. Dr. Nalwa has authored over 150
scientific articles, 25 book chapters and 18 patents in the field of
electronic and photonic materials and their based devices. Dr. Nalwa
is one of the most experienced and internationally known editors who
has edited/co-edited 95 books for the scientific community;
Ferroelectric Polymers (Marcel Dekker, 1995), Nonlinear
Optics of Organic Molecules and Polymers (CRC Press, 1997), Organic
Electroluminescent Materials and Devices (Gordon & Breach,
1997), Handbook of Organic Conductive Molecules and Polymers,
Vols. 1-4 (John Wiley & Sons, 1997), Handbook of Low and
High Dielectric Constant Materials and Their Applications, Vols.
1-2 (Academic Press, 1999), Handbook of Nanostructured Materials
and Nanotechnology, Vols. 1-5 (Academic Press, 1999), Handbook
of Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices, Vols.
1-10 (Academic Press, 2000), Advanced Functional Molecules and
Polymers, Vols. 1-4 (Gordon & Breach, 2001), Photodetectors
and Fiber Optics (Academic Press, 2001), Silicon-Based
Materials and Devices, Vols. 1-2 (Academic Press, 2001), Supramolecular
Photosensitive and Electroactive Materials (Academic Press,
2001), Handbook of Thin Films Materials, Vols. 1-5 (Academic
Press, 2001), Handbook of Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials,
Vols. 1-5 (Academic Press, 2001), Semiconductors and Semimetals,
Vol. 73 (Academic Press, 2001), Advances in Surface Science,
Vol. 38 (Academic Press, 2001), Nanostructured Materials and
Nanotechnology (Academic Press, 2001), Handbook of
Polyelectrolytes and Their Applications, Vols. 1-3 (American
Scientific Publishers, 2002), Handbook of Luminescence, Display
Materials and Devices, Vols. 1-3 (American Scientific
Publishers, 2003), Handbook of Photochemistry and Photobiology,
Vols. 1-4 (American Scientific Publishers, 2003), Handbook of
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials and Nanocomposites, Vols. 1-2
(American Scientific Publishers, 2003), Magnetic Nanostructures
(American Scientific Publishers, 2002), Quantum Dots and
Nanowires (American Scientific Publishers, 2003), Nanoclusters
and Nanocrystals (American Scientific Publishers, 2003), Polymer
Optical Fibers (American Scientific Publishers, 2004), Encyclopedia
of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vols. 1-10 (American
Scientific Publishers, 2004), Handbook of Nanostructured
Biomaterials and Their Applications in Nanobiotechnology, Vols.
1-2 (American Scientific Publishers, 2005), Polymeric
Nanostructures and Their Applications, Vols. 1-2 (American
Scientific Publishers, 2006), Handbook of Organic Electronics
and Photonics, Vols. 1-3 (American Scientific Publishers, 2006),
Bottom-up Nanofabrication: Supramolecules, Self-Assembly and
Organized Films, Vols. 1-8 (American Scientific Publishers,
2006), Cancer Nanotechnology (American Scientific
Publishers, 2006), Nanotoxicology (American Scientific
Publishers, 2006), Biochips Nanotechnology (American
Scientific Publishers, 2006), Soft Nanomaterials, Vol. 1-2
(American Scientific Publishers, 2006), Hard Nanomaterials
(American Scientific Publishers, 2006). Handbook of
Electrochemical Nanotechnology, Vols. 1-2 (American Scientific
Publishers, 2006).
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology (10-Voume set) edited by Hari Singh Nalwa
received “2005 Best Reference Work Award” from
the American Society for Engineering Education (USA) and was
selected as the “2005 Outstanding Academic Title”
by the CHOICE magazine from the American Library Association
(USA).
Dr. Nalwa is a member of the American Chemical
Society, American Physical Society, Materials Research Society and
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has
been cited in the "Who’s Who in Science and
Engineering", "Who’s Who in America",
"Who’s Who in the World", "Dictionary
of International Biography" and "2000
Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century
Order of Excellence. He has
been awarded a number of presitgious fellowships including
National Merit Scholarship, Indian Space Research Organization
Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Senior
fellowship, NEC fellowship, and Japanese Government Science &Technology
Agency Fellowship.
Dr. Nalwa helped organize the First
International Symposium on the Crystal Growth of Organic Materials
(Tokyo,1989) and the Second International Symposium on
Phthalocyanines (Edinburgh,1998) under the auspices of the Royal
Society of Chemistry. He also proposed a the first conference on
porphyrins and phthalocyanines to the scientific community that,
in part, was intended to promote public awareness of the Journal
of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, which he founded in
1996 and remained the Editor-in-Chief until
December 2000. As a member of the organizing committee, he helped
effectuate the First International Conference on Porphyrins and
Phthalocyanines, which was held in Dijon, France in 2000. He was
on the organizing committee of the BioMEMS and Smart
Nanostructures, (December 17 –19, 2001, Adelaide, Australia).
Dr. Nalwa received a B.Sc.degree in
biosciences from the Meerut University in 1974, a M.Sc.degree in
Organic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology at
Roorkee (formerly University of Roorkee) in 1977, and a
Ph.D.degree in Polymer Science from the Indian Institute of
Technology in New Delhi in 1983. His thesis research focused on
the electrical properties of macromolecules. Since then, his
research activities and professional career have been devoted to
studies of electronic and photonic organic and polymeric
materials. His endeavors include molecular design, chemical
synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, structure-property
relationships, and evaluation of novel high performance materials
for electronic and photonic applications. He was a Guest Scientist
at Hann-Meitner Institute in West Berlin, Germany (1983) and
Research Associate at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles (1984 –1987) and State University of New York at
Buffalo (1987 –1988). In 1988, he moved to the Tokyo
University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan as a lecturer
(1988 –1990), where he taught and conducted research on
electronic and photonic materials. His research experience include
ferroelectric polymers, electrically conducting polymers, polymer
electrets, nonlinear optical materials for integrated optics,
electroluminescent materials, low and high dielectric constant
materials for microelectronics packaging, organic semiconductors,
nanocrystalline and nanostructured materials, Langmuir-Blodgett
films, high-temperature resistant polymer composites, epoxy-based
photopolymers, rapid modeling and stereolithography.
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