Nanomaterials Imaging Techniques, Surface Studies, and Applications

Preface.- Part I: Imaging Techniques – Microscopy, Spectroscopy and Lasers.- 1: Nano-Bio Architectures: Combining Chemistry and Biology in Nanotechnology.- 2: Comparative Analysis of the IR Signal Enhancement of Biomolecules Adsorbed on Graphene and Graphene Oxide Nanosheets.- 3: Infrared Spectroscopy in Studying Biofunctionalised Gold Nanoparticles.- 4: Formation of Nanoparticle Chains Within Liquid Crystal Defect Arrays.- 5: Carbon Nanotubes Deagglomeration in Aqueous Solutions.- 6: Graphene-like autointercalated Niobium Diselenide nanoparticles: new possibility of 2D nanomaterials design.- 7: Optical Manifold of Spatial Localization of Dyes Molecules Self-Organized in the Body of Silica Thin Films.- 8: Nonlinear Optical Properties of New Nanocomposites: Metal Alkanoate Glasses  with Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- 9: Surface plasmon retardation in graphene bilayer.- Part II: Interface Studies and Techniques.- 10: Goniometric setup for plasmonic measurements and characterization of optical coatings.- 11: Effects of Surface and Interface In Oxide Nanoparticle System.- 12: Surface sites of nanomaterials: investigation of local structures by in-situ IR spectroscopy.- 13: Method to produce suspensions using encapsulated nanopowders of 3-d metals as precursors.- 14: Metal Nanostructures and Active Materials by Thomas A. Klar.- Part III: Nanocomposites and Applications of Nanotechnologies.- 15: Hopping Model of Charge-Carrier Transport in Organic Nanoparticle Systems.- 16: Graingrowth kinetics during microwave sintering of the nanocrystalline titanium nitride.- 17: Luminescent imaging of biological molecules and cells on the photonic crystal surface.- 18: Peculiarities of Liquid Crystal – Carbon Nanotube Dispersions Doped with a Minute Amount of Nanoparticles of Synthetic Clay.- 19: Comparison of Poly(rI) and Poly(rA) adsorption on carbon nanotubes.- 20: Non-covalent immobilization of oligonucleotides on single-walled carbon nanotubes.- 21: Sol-gel organic-inorganic hybrid materials containing lanthanide complexes with polydentate acyclic and cyclic ligands: synthesis and spectral-luminescent properties .- 22: Study of nanocomposites of amino acids and organic polyethers by means of mass spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulation.- 23: Application of baculovirus technology for studies of G protein-coupled receptor signaling.- 24: Interplay of quadratic and cubic nonlinear optical responses in KDP single crystals with incorporated TiO2 nanoparticles.- Index.