Nanostructured Materials for Advanced Technological Applications

Nanostructured Materials for Advanced Technological Application: a brief Introduction.- Low temperature variable-range hopping in disordered solids: The failure of the Mott "T ^-1/4 " model and the demonstration of a new procedure.- On the validities and limitations of transient photo-decay techniques for identifying the energy distribution and related properties of localized states in disordered semiconductors.- Composite films with nanosized multilayer particles: Numerical modeling of their optical response.- Two-photon lasing in micro-cavities.- Interference of cooperative resonant fluorescence from two distant systems of radiators.- Modelling the cohesive energy of chalcogenide nanoparticles.- Quantum-dimensional effects in the positron annihilation spectra of La-Ba-Cu-O superconductors.- Examples of current industrial micro- and nanomaterials and techniques for their characterization.- Raman spectroscopy of UNCD grain boundaries.- Structural study of multi-component glasses by the Reverse Monte Carlo simulation technique.- Dynamic light scattering as a probe of nanosized entities: Applications in materials and life sciences.- The collapse of hydrodynamic radii in pluronic PE6400 micelles in vicinity of supramolecular transition: Dynamic light scattering, heat capacity and sound velocity measurements.- Some structural modifications at the nanometric scale induced by swift heavy ion irradiation.- Fabrication of metal nanoparticles in polymers by ion implantation.- Rapid Laser prototyping of polymer-based nanoplasmonic components.- Design of ceramic microstructure of nanoscaled transitional alumina.- Carbon nanotube composite materials: Opportunities and processing issues.- Laser ablation of CdSe and ZnO: alkylamine assisted formation of magic clusters.- Synthesis and characterization of silver/silica nanostructures.- ZnO nanostructures grown by thermal evaporation and thermal decomposition methods.- Antimicrobial effects of silver nanoparticles synthesized by an electro-chemical method.- The effect of Au nanoclusters in tin oxide film gas sensors.- Preparation and some characteristics of polyepoxypropylcarbazole thin films with embedded Au-Ag nanoparticles.- Nanostructural carbonaceous films with metal (Pd, Ni) nanoparticles.- Nanostructured ionic conductors: investigation of SiO ₂ -MI (M=Li, Ag) composites.- Preparation and properties of flexible nanocomposites, obtained by a combination of colloidal chemistry and sol-gel approach.- Template synthesis of mesoporous silicas inside nanoreactros based on large pores of silica gel.- Nanocrystalline metastable hard coatings.- Influence of the precursor materials on the structural properties of poly-Si thin films obtained by aluminium-induced crystallization.- Sensitivity of ZnO films doped with Er, Ta and Co to NH ₃ at room temperature.- Pulsed laser deposition of layers and nanostructures based on CdTe and Bi.- Ternary Ge-Se-(B, Ga, T1) chalcogenides - preparation, properties and applications.- Study of (As ₂ Se ₃ ) _100-x (AgI) _x thin films prepared by PLD and VTE methods.- Physico-chemical characterization of nanostructured As-Se-Ag glassy materials.- Atomic structure of As ₃₄ Se ₅₁ Ag ₁₅ and As ₃₄ Te ₅₁ Ag ₁₅ glasses studied with XRD, ND and XAFS and modeled with RMS.- Thermal behavior of novel (GeS ₂ ) _1-x (AgI) _x glasses.- Microstructural, morphological and optical characterization of As ₂ Se ₃ -As ₂ Te ₃ -Sb ₂ Te ₃ amorphous layers.- Nanocolloidal solutions of As-S glasses and their relation to the surface morphology of spin-coated amorphous films.-