Trends in Nanophysics Theory, Experiment and Technology

"Trends in Nanophysics" contains reviews on various domains of nanotechnology such as: radiation-induced polymerization, cross-linking and grafting; Mossbauer study of nanomaterials; biomedical applications of nanomaterials; organic thin films for photovoltaics; growth and characterization of semiconductor nanowires; graphene and carbon nanotubes; fractional statistics in nanophysics; nanomechanical properties of materials; ab-initio simulations in nanoscience; fabrication and characterization of ordered atomic-scale structures; plasmonics; and nano-optical studies of motile structures of neuronal cells. These reviews cover key issues from experimental and theoretical nanophysics and are interesting for active researchers as well as for graduate and undergraduate students in the nanoscience field.

Ordered Atomic-Scale Structures.- Fabrication and Characterization of Ordered Atomic-scale Structures – A Step towards Future Nanoscale Technology.- Computational Nanomechanics of Quasi-one-dimensional Structures in a Symmetry-Adapted Tight Binding Framework.- Ordered Atomic-Scale Structures.- Thin-Film Metamaterials Called Sculptured Thin Films.- GaN and InN Nanowires: Growth and Optoelectronic Properties.- Transport Phenomena in Nanostructures.- Electronic and Thermal Sequential Transport in Metallic and Superconducting Two-Junction Arrays.- Ballistic Transistors: From Planar to Cylindrical Nanowire Transistors.- R-matrix Formalism for Electron Scattering in Two Dimensions with Applications to Nanostructures with Quantum Dots.- Fractional Charge (and Statistics) in Luttinger Liquids.- Optical Properties of Nanostructures.- Near-Field Optical Forces from Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Experiment and Theory.- Plasmon Spectra of Nano-Structures: A Hydrodynamic Model.- Magnetic Nanophases; Magnetic and Non-magnetic Nanocomposites.- Magnetic Nanocomposites at Microwave Frequencies.- Magnetic Nanocomposites for Permanent Magnets.- Magnetic Configuration and Relaxation in Iron Based Nano-Particles: A Mössbauer Approach.- Properties of Ag/PVP Hydrogel Nanocomposite Synthesized In Situ by Gamma Irradiation.- Nanofluids and Flows at Nanoscale.- Revealing Magnetite Nanoparticles Aggregation Dynamics – A SLS and DLS Study.- Features of Classical and Quantum Fluid Flows Extending to Micro- and Nano-Scales.