Nanomaterials Imaging Techniques, Surface Studies, and Applications

Preface Part I: Imaging Techniques - Microscopy, Spectroscopy and Lasers Chapter 1: Nano-Bio Architectures: Combining Chemistry and Biology in Nanotechnology by Venkat Rao Chapter 2: Comparative Analysis of the IR Signal Enhancement of Biomolecules Adsorbed on Graphene and Graphene Oxide Nanosheets by Galyna Dovbeshko, Olena Fesenko, Olena Gnatyuk, Anna Rynder, Oleg Posudievsky Chapter 3: Infrared Spectroscopy in Studying Biofunctionalised Gold Nanoparticles by Alexander A. Kamnev Chapter 4: Formation of Nanoparticle Chains Within Liquid Crystal Defect Arrays by L. Pelliser, D. Coursault, E. Lacaze Chapter 5: Carbon Nanotubes Deagglomeration in Aqueous Solutions by EO Kovalska, YuI Sementsov Chapter 6: Graphene-like autointercalated Niobium Diselenide nanoparticles: new possibility of 2D nanomaterials design by Liudmyla Mykolaivna Chepyga, Leonid M. Kulikov, Viktor M. Talash, Lev G. Akselrud Chapter 7: Optical Manifold of Spatial Localization of Dyes Molecules Self-Organized in the Body of Silica Thin Films by German Telbiz, Evgen Leonenko, Dezhiv Goer, Petro Manoryk Chapter 8: Nonlinear Optical Properties of New Nanocomposites: Metal Alkanoate Glasses with Semiconductor Quantum Dots by A.G. Lyashchova, D.V. Fedorenko, G.V. Klimusheva, T.A. Mirnaya, V.N.Asaula Chapter 9: Surface plasmon retardation in graphene bilayer by Konstantin Batrakov and Vasil Saroka Part II: Interface Studies and Techniques Chapter 10: Goniometric setup for plasmonic measurements and characterization of optical coatings by A. Loot, L. Dolgov, S. Pikker, R. Lohmus, I. Sildos Chapter 11: Effects of Surface and Interface In Oxide Nanoparticle System by T. Konstantinova, I. Danilenko and V.Varyukhin Chapter 12: Surface sites of nanomaterials: investigation of local structures by in-situ IR spectroscopy by Valentina Aina, Gabriele Alberto, Chiara Deiana, Yuriy Sakhno, Alessandro Damin, Gianmario MartraChapter 13: Method to produce suspensions using encapsulated nanopowders of 3-d metals as precursors by Kira V. Liapina, Peter G. Dulnev, Andrej I. Marinin, Tatyana V. Melnichenko and Anatolij I. Ustinov Chapter 14: Metal Nanostructures and Active Materials by Thomas A. Klar Part III: Nanocomposites and Applications of Nanotechnologies Chapter 15: Hopping Model of Charge-Carrier Transport in Organic Nanoparticle Systems by I. I. Fishchuk, A. Kadashchuk, X. Li, J. Genoe Chapter 16: Grain growth kinetics during microwave sintering of the nanocrystalline titanium nitride by Dmytro Demirskyi, Andrey Ragulya Chapter 17: Luminescent imaging of biological molecules and cells on the photonic crystal surface by V.V. Boiko, O.M. Fesenko, V.F. Gorchev, S.O. Karakhim, L. Dolgov, V. Kiisk, I. Sildos, V.S. Gorelik , G.I. Dovbeshko Chapter 18: Peculiarities of Liquid Crystal - Carbon Nanotube Dispersions Doped with a Minute Amount of Nanoparticles of Synthetic Clay by S. Tomylko, O. Yaroshchuk, O. Kovalchuk and N. Lebovka Chapter 19: Comparison of Poly(rI) and Poly(rA) adsorption on carbon nanotubes by M. V. Karachevtsev, G. O. Gladchenko, V. A. Karachevtsev Chapter 20: Non-covalent immobilization of oligonucleotides on single-walled carbon nanotubes by Evgeny K. Apartsin, Marina Yu. Buyanova, Darya S. Novopashina, Elena I. Ryabchikova, Alya G. Venyaminova Chapter 21: Sol-gel organic-inorganic hybrid materials containing lanthanide complexes with polydentate acyclic and cyclic ligands: synthesis and spectral-luminescent properties by S.S. Smola, O.V. Snurnikova, E.N. Fadeyev, N.V. Rusakova Chapter 22: Study of nanocomposites of amino acids and organic polyethers by means of mass spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulation by V.G. Zobnina, M.V. Kosevich, V.V. Chagovets, O.A. BoryakChapter 23: Application of baculovirus technology for studies of G protein-coupled receptor signaling by Olga Mazina, Lauri Tontson, Santa Veiksina, Sergei Kopanchuk, Ago Rinken Chapter 24: Interplay of quadratic and cubic nonlinear optical responses in KDP single crystals with incorporated TiO2 nanoparticles by V.Ya. Gayvoronsky, M.A. Kopylovsky, M.S. Brodyn, A.S. Popov, V.O. Yatsyna, I.M. Pritula Index