Chemistry of Nanocrystalline Oxide Materials: Combustion Synthesis, Properties and Applications [Hardcover]

K. C. Patil (Author), M. S. Hegde (Author), Tanu Rattan (Author), S. T. Aruna (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 9812793143 | ISBN-13: 978-9812793140 | Publication Date: September 8, 2008 | Edition: 1

Nano-oxide materials lend themselves to applications in a wide variety of emerging technological fields such as microelectronics, catalysts, ceramics, coatings, and energy storage. However, developing new routes for making nano-based materials is a challenging area for solid-state materials chemists. This book does just that by describing a novel method for preparing them. The authors have developed a novel low-temperature, self-propagating synthetic route to nano-oxides by the solution combustion and combustible precursor processes. This method provides the desired composition, structure, and properties for many types of technologically useful nanocrystalline oxide materials like alumina, ceria, iron oxides, titania, yttria, and zirconia, among others.

The book is particularly instructive in bringing readers one step closer to the exploration of nanomaterials. Students of nanoscience can acquaint themselves with the actual production and evaluation of nanopowders by this route, while academic researchers and industrial scientists will find answers to a host of questions on nano-oxides. The book also provides an impetus for scientists in industrial research to evaluate and explore new ways to scale up the production of nanomaterials, offering helpful suggestions for further research.

Contents: Combustible Solid Precursors to Nanocrystalline Oxide Materials; Solution Combustion Synthesis of Oxide Materials; Alumina and Related Oxide Materials; Nano-Ceria and Metal-Ion-Substituted Ceria; Nanocrystalline Fe2O3 and Ferrites; Nano-Titania and Titanates; Zirconia and Related Oxide Materials; Perovskite Oxide Materials; Nanocrystalline Oxide Materials for Special Applications.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The book which contains ready recipes for the SCS of a large number and wide variety of nano-phase oxides will prove to be a handy guide for the practicing solid state chemists, solid state physicists, materials scientists and technologists, and these include students, teachers and active researchers. It will also be a valuable addition to the libraries concerned with the books on nano-materials science and nano-technology. --Professor G V Subba Rao, National University of Singapore

Product Details

• Hardcover: 364 pages
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 1 edition (September 8, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812793143
• ISBN-13: 978-9812793140
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,119,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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