Processing of Nanoparticle Materials and Nanostructured Films

Preface vii Graphene Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles and Their Characterization 1 Junchi Wu and Nitin Chopra A Surfactant-Assisted Solid-State Synthesis of BaTi03 from BaC03 and Ti02 9 Yu-Lun Chang, and Hsing-I Hsiang Morphological Stability of Gold Nanoparticles on Titania Nanoparticles 23 M. Nahar and D. Kovar Synthesis of Nanostructured Mesoporous Ordered Silica Supported Fe203 Nanoparticles for Water Purification 31 Sawsan A. Mahmoud and Heba M. Gobara Patterning by Focused Ion Beam Assisted Anodization 47 J. Zhao, K. Lu, B. Chen, and Z. Tian Agricultural-Waste Nano-Particle Synthesis Templates for Hydrogen Storage 57 William L Bradbury and Eugene A. Olevsky Synthesis, Structural and Mechanical Characterization of Artificial Nanocomposites 69 Yong Sun, Zaiwang Huang, and Xiaodong Li Properties of Freeze-Casted Composites of Silica and Kaoiinite 79 J. Walz and K. Lu Controlled Processing of Bulk Assembling of Nanoparticles of Titania 87 M. Jitianu, J. K. Ko, S. Miller, C. Rohn, and Ft. A. Haber Phase Transition and Consolidation of Colloidal Nanoparticles 101 Yoshihiro Hirata, Naoki Matsunaga, and Soichiro Sameshima Thin Film Nanocomposites for Thermoelectric Applications 113 Otto J. Gregory, Ximing Chen, Matin Amani, Brian Monteiro, and Andrew Carracia Indium Tin Oxide Nanosized Transparent Conductive Thin Films Obtained by Sputtering from Large Size Planar and Rotary Targets 125 E. Medvedovski, C.J. Szepesi, O. Yankov, and P. Lippens Engineered Oxide Nanofilms Prepared from Solutions at Relatively Low Temperatures 147 Arvid Pasto, Michael Pozvonkov, Morgan Spears, Evan Hyde, and Mark Deininger Experimental Study of Structural Zone Model for Composite Thin Films in Magnetic Recording Media Application 161 Hua Yuan and David E. Laughlin Process Optimization of Ion Plating Nickel-Copper-Silver Thin Film Deposition 169 Mike Danyluk Author Index 187