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Part 1 Nanomaterials, Fabrication and Biomedical Applications |
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1 Electrospinning Materials for Skin Tissue Engineering |
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3 | (18) |
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1.1 Skin Tissue Engineering Scaffolds |
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1.1.1 Materials Used in Skin Tissue Engineering Scaffolds |
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1.1.1.1 Natural Scaffolds |
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1.1.1.2 Synthetic Scaffolds |
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1.1.2 Scaffold Production Techniques Used in Skin Tissue Engineering |
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2 Electrospinning: A Versatile Technique to Synthesize Drug Delivery Systems |
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2.2 The Types of Delivered Drugs |
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2.2.1 Antitumor/Anticancer Drugs |
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2.3 Polymers Used in Electrospinning |
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2.3.1.3 Cellulose Acetate |
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2.3.2.1 Synthetic Homopolymers |
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2.3.2.2 Synthetic Copolymers |
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2.3.3.1 Blends of Natural Polymers |
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2.3.3.2 Blends of Natural and Synthetic Polymers |
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2.3.3.3 Blends of Synthetic Polymers |
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2.3.3.4 Other Multicomponent Polymer Mixtures |
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2.4 The Development of Electrospinning Process for Drug Delivery |
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2.4.1 Coaxial Electrospinning |
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2.4.2 Emulsion Electrospinning |
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38 | (1) |
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2.4.3 Multilayer Electrospinning |
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2.4.5 Post-modification of Electrospun Scaffolds |
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3 Electrospray Jet Emission: An Alternative Interpretation Invoking Dielectrophoretic Forces |
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3.2 Electrospray: How It Works? |
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3.3 Historical Background |
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3.4 How the Current (and Wrong) Description of the Electrospray Process Has Been Generated? |
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3.5 What Is Wrong in the Current Description? |
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3.6 Some Results Shedding More Light |
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3.7 Discriminating between Electrophoretic and Dielectrophoretic Forces |
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3.8 Some Theoretical Aspects of Dielectrophoresis |
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4 Advanced Silver and Oxide Hybrids of Catalysts During Formaldehyde Production |
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4.2.1 Limited Hybrid Catalyst Methodology |
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4.4 Limited Hybrid Catalyst Method for Formaldehyde Production |
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4.4.1 Analyzing the Pure Catalyst Process |
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4.4.2 Graphical Presentation of Catalyst Process |
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4.4.3 Advanced Hybrid Catalyst Process |
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4.4.4 Choosing the Best Advanced Hybrid Catalyst Process |
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4.4.5 Simulation of the Best Advanced Hybrid Catalyst Process |
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5 Physico-chemical Characterization and Basic Research Principles of Advanced Drug Delivery Nanosystems |
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5.2 Basic Research Principles and Techniques for the Physicochemical Characterization of Advanced Drug Delivery Nanosystems |
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5.2.1.1 Optical Microscopy |
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5.2.1.2 Electron Microscopy |
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5.2.1.3 Scanning Probe Microscopy |
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5.2.2.1 Classification of Thermal Analysis Techniques |
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5.2.2.2 Differential Scanning Calorimetry |
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5.2.3 Measurements of Size Distribution and (-Potential of Nanocolloidal Dispersion Systems and Their Evaluation |
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5.2.3.1 Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS) and Other Light-scattering Techniques |
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6 Nanoporous Alumina as an Intelligent Nanomaterial for Biomedical Applications |
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6.2 Nanoporous Anodized Alumina as a Drug Nano-carrier |
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6.2.1 Intelligent Properties of NAA for Drug Delivery |
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6.3 Biocompatibility of NAA and NNAA Materials |
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6.4 NAA for Diabetic and Pancreatic Applications |
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6.5 NAA Applications in Orthopedics |
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6.6 NAA Applications for Heart, Coronary, and Vasculature Treatment |
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6.8 Conclusions and Future Prospects |
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152 | (9) |
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153 | (1) |
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7 Nanomaterials: Structural Peculiarities, Biological Effects, and Some Aspects of Application |
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7.2 Physicochemical Properties Determining the Bioavailability and Toxicity of Nanoparticles |
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7.3 Current Nanoecotoxicological Knowledge |
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7.3.1 Main Causes of NPs Toxicity |
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7.3.2 Risk Assessment for NPs in the Environment |
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7.3.3 Peculitiaries of Effects of Some NPs on the Living Objects |
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7.3.3.1 Experiments with Luminescent Bacteria |
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7.3.3.2 Daphnias as Indicators of Influence of Nanostructured Material |
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7.3.3.3 Investigations with Model Plants |
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7.3.3.4 Experiments with Plants under Real Conditions |
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7.3.3.5 Effect of NPs of Some Oxide Metals on the Bioluminescent Bacteria |
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7.3.3.6 Reaction of Daphnias on the Effect of Some NPs |
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7.3.3.7 Effect of the Nanostructured Solids on the Physiological Characteristics of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) |
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7.3.3.8 Effect of the Colloidal NPs on the Plants at Grow under Carbonate Chlorosis Conditions |
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7.4 Modern Direction of the Application of Nanostructured Solids in Detoxication Processes |
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7.4.1 From Conventional Decontamination to Innovative Nanostructured Systems |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (11) |
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189 | (1) |
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8 Biomedical Applications of Intelligent Nanomaterials |
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8.2 Polymeric Nanoparticles |
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8.2.2 Poly-D,L-lactide-co-glycolide |
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203 | (1) |
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8.2.4 Polycaprolactone (PCL) |
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204 | (1) |
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8.2.7 Potential and Challenges |
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8.3 Lipid-based Nanoparticles |
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8.3.2.1 Intrinsic Stimuli |
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8.3.2.2 Extrinsic Stimuli |
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8.3.3 Potential and Challenges |
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8.4 Carbon Nanostructures |
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8.4.2 Zero-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures |
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8.4.3 One-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures |
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8.4.4 Two-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures |
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8.4.5 Three-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures |
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8.4.6 Potential and Challenges |
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8.5 Nanostructured Metals |
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8.5.2 Other Metallic Nanoparticles |
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8.5.3 Potential and Challenges |
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8.6 Hybrid Nanostructures |
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8.6.1 Smart Nanostructured Platforms for Drug Delivery |
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224 | (1) |
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8.6.1.1 Metal-based Smart Composite and Hybrid Nanostructures |
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224 | (1) |
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8.6.1.2 Carbon-based Smart Composite and Hybrid Nanostructures |
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8.6.2 Smart Nanostructures for Diagnostic Imaging |
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226 | (1) |
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8.6.2.1 Metal-based Smart Composite and Hybrid Nanostructures |
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227 | (1) |
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8.6.2.2 Carbon-based Smart Composite and Hybrid Nanostructures |
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Part 2 Nanomaterials for Energy, Electronics, and Biosensing |
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9 Phase Change Materials as Smart Nanomaterials for Thermal Energy Storage in Buildings |
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250 | (2) |
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9.2 Phase Change Materials: Definition, Principle of Operation, and Classifications |
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9.3 PCM-enhanced Cement-based Materials |
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9.4 Hybrid PCM for Thermal Storage |
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9.5 Numerical Simulations |
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9.5.1 Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfers in the Context of Building Physics |
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9.5.2 Governing Equations |
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9.6 Thermal Modeling of Phase Change |
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9.6.1 The Enthalpy-porosity Method |
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9.6.2 The Effective Heat Capacity Method |
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9.6.3 Numerical Simulation of Small-scale Prototype |
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9.6.4 Results of the Numerical Simulations of Prototype |
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9.6.5 Case Study of a Simulated Building |
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9.6.6 Results of Thermal Behavior and Energy Saving |
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9.6.7 Global Performance of a Building Systems with Hybrid PCM |
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9.7 Nanoparticle-enhanced Phase Change Material |
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9.7.1 Modeling nanoparticle-enhanced PCM |
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9.7.2 Definition of the Case study |
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9.7.3 Results of Case Study with Nanoparticle-enhanced Phase Change Material |
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9.8 Conclusions (General Remarks) |
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10 Nanofluids with Enhanced Heat Transfer Properties for Thermal Energy Storage |
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10.2 Thermal Energy Storage |
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10.2.1 Sensible Heat Thermal Storage |
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10.2.2 Latent Heat Thermal Storage |
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10.2.3 Thermochemical Storage |
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10.3 Nanofluids for Thermal Energy Storage |
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10.3.3 Methods of Nanofluid Preparation |
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10.4 Nanofluids Based on Molten Salts: Enhancement of Thermal Properties |
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10.4.2 Latent Heat of Fusion and Melting Temperature |
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340 | (4) |
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10.4.3 Thermal Conductivity |
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11 Resistive Switching of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Advanced Nanoelectronic Devices |
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362 | (1) |
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11.2 Theoretical Description of Resistive Switching Mechanism of Structures Based on VACNT |
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11.2.1 The Modeling of the Deformation of the VACNT Affected by a Local External Electric Field |
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11.2.2 The Modeling of the Processes of Polarization and Piezoelectric Charge Accumulation in a Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube |
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11.2.3 The Modeling of the Memristor Effect in the Structure Based on a Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube |
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11.3 Techniques for Measuring the Electrical Resistivity and Young's Modulus of VACNT Based on Scanning Probe Microscopy |
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11.3.1 Techniques for Measuring Young's Modulus of VACNT Based on Nanoindentation |
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11.3.2 Techniques for Measuring the Electrical Resistivity of VACNT Based on Scanning Tunnel Microscopy |
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11.4 Experimental Studies of Resistive Switching in Structures Based on VACNT Using Scanning Tunnel Microscopy |
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12 Multi-objective Design of Nanoscale Double Gate MOSFET Devices Using Surrogate Modeling and Global Optimization |
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12.2 Downscaling Parasitic Effects |
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12.2.1 Short Channel Effect |
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12.2.1.1 Drain-induced Barrier Lowering |
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12.2.1.2 Channel Length Modulation |
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12.2.1.3 Carrier Mobility Reduction |
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12.2.2 Quantum Mechanical Confinement Effect |
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12.2.2.1 Inversion Charge Displacement |
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12.2.2.2 Poly-silicon Gate Depletion |
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12.2.2.3 Threshold Voltage Shift |
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12.2.3 Hot-carrier Effect |
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12.2.3.1 Impact-ionization |
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12.2.3.2 Carrier Injection |
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12.2.3.3 Interface Trap Formation |
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12.3.1 Design of Computer Experiments |
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12.3.2 Metamodel Development |
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12.3.3 Multi-objective Optimization |
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12.4 Simulation and Results |
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13 Graphene-based Electrochemical Biosensors: New Trends and Applications |
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428 | (1) |
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13.2 Scope of This Review |
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429 | (1) |
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13.3 Graphene and Sensors |
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430 | (1) |
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13.4 Graphene Nanomaterials Used in Electrochemical (Bio)sensors Fabrication |
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13.5 Graphene-based Enzymatic Electrodes |
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432 | (5) |
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13.5.1 Graphene-based Electrochemical Enzymatic Biosensors for Glucose Detection |
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432 | (2) |
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13.5.2 Graphene-based Electrochemical Enzymatic Biosensors for Hydrogen Peroxide Detection |
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434 | (1) |
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13.5.3 Graphene-based Electrochemical Enzymatic Biosensors for NADH Detection |
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435 | (1) |
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13.5.4 Graphene-based Electrochemical Enzymatic Biosensors for Cholesterol Detection |
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435 | (2) |
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13.5.5 Graphene-based Electrochemical Enzymatic Biosensors for Urea Detection |
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13.6 Graphene-based Electrochemical DNA Sensors |
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13.7 Graphene-based Electrochemical Immunosensors |
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13.7.1 Graphene-based Electrochemical Immunosensors for Biomarker Detection |
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13.7.2 Graphene-based Electrochemical Immunosensors for Pathogen Detection |
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13.8 Commercial Activities in the Field of Graphene Sensors |
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442 | (1) |
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13.9 Recent Developments in the Field of Graphene Sensors |
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442 | (1) |
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13.10 Conclusions and Future Prospects |
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443 | (8) |
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Part 3 Smart Nanocomposites, Fabrication, and Applications |
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14 Carbon Fibers-based Silica Aerogel Nanocomposites |
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14.1 Introduction to Nanotechnology |
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451 | (3) |
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14.2 Chemistry of Sol-gel Process |
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14.2.1 Characterization and Application of Silica Aerogels |
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14.2.2 Synthesis of Silica Gels via Sol--gel Process |
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14.2.3 Aging of Silica Gels |
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14.2.4 Methods of Drying of Silica Gels |
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14.3 Types of Silica Aerogel Nanocomposites |
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14.3.1 Reinforcing the Silica Aerogel and Xerogel Structure in the Synthesis Stage |
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14.3.2 Metal- and Metal Oxide-based Silica Aerogels |
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464 | (2) |
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14.3.3 Polymer-based Silica Aerogels |
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14.3.4 Fiber-based Silica Aerogels |
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14.4 Carbon Fiber-based Silica Aerogel Nanocomposites |
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14.4.1 Characterization of Carbon Fibers and Chemical Modification of Their Surface |
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14.4.2 Synthesis of Silica Aerogel: Carbon Fiber Nanocomposites in Relation to the Type of Precursor |
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14.4.3 Drying of Silica Gel: Carbon Fiber Nanocomposites |
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14.4.4 Research Methods Applied |
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484 | (1) |
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14.4.5 Physical and Chemical Characterization of Silica Aerogel and Xerogel Nanocomposites |
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15 Hydrogel--Carbon Nanotubes Composites for Protection of Egg Yolk Antibodies |
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502 | (2) |
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15.2.1 Synthetic and Natural Hydrogels |
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504 | (1) |
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15.2.2 Intelligent Hydrogels |
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505 | (1) |
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15.2.3 Characterization of Hydrogels |
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506 | (1) |
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15.3.1 Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes |
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15.3.2 Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes |
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509 | (1) |
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15.3.3 Noncovalent Functionalization Strategies |
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509 | (1) |
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15.3.4 Covalent Functionalization Strategies |
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510 | (1) |
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15.4 Polymer--CNT Composites |
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15.4.2 Tissue Engineering |
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15.4.3 Electrical Cell Stimulation |
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514 | (1) |
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15.4.4 Antimicrobial Materials |
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515 | (1) |
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15.5 Egg Yolk Antibodies Protection |
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515 | (2) |
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15.6 In Vitro Evaluation of Nanocomposite Performance |
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517 | (1) |
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15.7 In Vivo Evaluation of Nanocomposite Performance |
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518 | (3) |
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15.7.1 Nanotechnology for Bovine Production Applications |
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519 | (1) |
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15.7.2 Nanotechnology for Porcine Production Applications |
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519 | (1) |
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15.7.3 Nanotechnology Applications in Other Animal Species |
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520 | (1) |
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15.8 Concluding Remarks and Future Trends |
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521 | (12) |
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522 | (11) |
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16 Green Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticles |
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533 | (22) |
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533 | (2) |
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16.2 Development of Herbal Medicines |
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535 | (1) |
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16.3 Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles |
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536 | (3) |
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16.4 Characterization of Phytofabricated Nanoparticles |
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539 | (1) |
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16.5 Impact of Plant-mediated Nanoparticles on Therapeutic Efficacy of Medicinal Plants |
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540 | (10) |
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16.5.1 Antidiabetic Potential |
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543 | (2) |
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16.5.2 Antioxidant Potential |
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545 | (3) |
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16.5.3 Antimicrobial Potential |
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548 | (2) |
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550 | (5) |
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551 | (4) |
Index |
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