NANOMATERIALS: NEW RESEARCH -- NANOMATERIALS: NEW RESEARCH -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: WEAR RESISTANT THERMOSETTING POLYMER BASED NANOCOMPOSITES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PRETREATMENT OF INORGANIC NANOPARTICLES AND THE CORRELATED CHARACTERIZATION -- 3. FRICTION AND WEAR PROPERTIES -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: USE OF ION BEAMS TO PRODUCE OR MODIFY NANOSTRUCTURES IN MATERIALS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PHYSICAL BASES -- 3.BALLISTIC EFFECTS -- 4. ELECTRONIC EFFECTS -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 6. REFERENCES -- APPENDIX : BASIC FORMULA OF ION STOPPING -- Chapter 3: NANOSTRUCTURED SNO2: TIO2 COMPOSITE AND BILAYERED THIN FILMS: HUMIDITY SENSOR -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: SYNTHESIS OF ZNO NANOPOWDER BY SOLUTION COMBUSTION METHOD AND ITS PHOTOCATALYTIC CHARACTERISTICS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SYNTHESIS OF ZNO NANOPOWDER -- 3. REMOVAL OF METAL IONS FROM WASTEWATER -- 4. DESTRUCTION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN WASTEWATER -- 5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: AL-BASED AMORPHOUS AND NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AL-SI AMORPHOUS ALLOY BY MELT SPINNING METHOD -- 3. THERMAL STABILITY OF TERNARY AMORPHOUS AL BASED ALLOYS -- 4. HIGH STRENGTH AL-BASED ALLOYS PREPARED BY POWDER METALLURGY METHOD -- 5. THE CONSIDERATION ON FURTHER DEVELOPMENT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES OF NANOCLAY DISPERSION IN MOLDED EPOXY DISKS: EFFECTS OF MIXING TEMPERATURE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES -- 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- 4. CONCLUSION -- 5. REFERENCES.

Chapter 7: SYNTHESIS OF THIOL-DERIVATIZED GOLD AND ALLOYED GOLD-SILVER CLUSTERS WITH CONTROLLED MORPHOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. TRADITIONAL SYNTHESIS -- 3. SIZE-CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS -- 4. PRODUCT CHARACTERIZATION -- 5. THIOL-DERIVATIZED ALLOYED AU-AG CLUSTERS -- 6. APPLICATIONS -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.