Preface ......................................................... v
List of Contributors ........................................... ix
Introduction ................................................ 1
1. Thermodynamic Properties of Diamondoids ..................... 7
G.R. Vakili-Nezhaad
2. Development of Composite Materials Based on Improved
Nanodiamonds ............................................... 29
P.Y. Detkov, V.A. Popov, V.G. Kulichikhin, and
S.I. Chukhaeva
3. Diamondoids as Molecular Building Blocks for
Nanotechnology ............................................. 44
Hamid Ramezani and G. Ali Mansoori
4. Surface Modification and Application of Functionalized
Polymer Nanofibers ......................................... 72
Renuga Gopal, Ma Zuwei, Satinderpal Kaur, and
Seeram Ramakrishna
5. Zinc Oxide Nanorod Arrays: Properties and Hydrothermal
Synthesis .................................................. 92
Kian Ping Loh and Soo Jin Chua
6. Nanoparticles, Nanorods, and Other Nanostructures
Assembled on Inert Substrates ............................. 118
Xue-Sen Wang
7. Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotubes .................... 154
Mohamed A. Osman, Awn W. Cummings, and
Deepak Srivastava
8. Chemical Vapor Deposition of Organized Architectures
of Carbon Nanotubes for Applications ...................... 188
Robert Vajtai, Binqing Wei, Thomas F. George, and
Pulickel M. Ajayan
9. Online Size Characterization of Nanofibers and
Nanotubes ................................................. 212
C.J. Unrau, R.L. Axelbaum, P. Biswas, and
P. Fraundorf
10. Theoretical Investigations in Retinal and Cubane .......... 246
G.P. Zhang and Thomas F. George
11. Polyhedral Heteroborane Clusters for Nanotechnology ....... 256
Fabio Pichierri
12. Squeezing Germanium Nanostructures ........................ 275
K.L. Teo and Z.X. Shen
13. Nanoengineered Biomimetic Bone-Building Blocks ............ 301
R. Murugan and S. Ramakrishna
14. Use of Nanoparticles as Building Blocks for
Bioapplications ........................................... 353
Yong Zhang and Feng Wang
15. Polymer Nanofibers for Biosensor Applications ............. 377
S. Ramakrishna, Neeta L. Lala, Hota Garudadhwaj,
Ramakrishnan Ramaseshan, and V.K. Ganesh
16. High-Pressure Synthesis of Carbon Nanostructured
Superhard Materials ....................................... 393
V.D. Blank, S.G. Buga, G.A. Dubitsky, K.V.
Gogolinsky, V.M. Prokhorov, N.R. Serebryanaya, and
V.A. Popov
Index ......................................................... 419
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