Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Preparation of Nanostructured Polymeric Particles for Drug Delivery Applications and the Affecting Parameters
Sepideh Khoee (Polymer Laboratory, Chemistry Department, School of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)

Chapter 2. Nanoscale Surface Size Dependence in Protein Conjugation
Kazushige Yokoyama (Department of Chemistry, The State University of New York, Geneseo College, Geneseo, NY, USA)

Chapter 3. Optical Properties of Trivalent Lanthanide Ions Doped ZnO Nanomaterials
Yongsheng Liu, Wenqin Luo, Renfu Li, and Xueyuan Chen (Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, and others)

Chapter 4. Nanomechanics and Nanotribological Characterization of Self-Assembled Monolayers for Nanosystems
Cheng-Da Wu, Te-Hua Fang, Jen-Fin Lin (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan and others)

Chapter 5. Nano-and Microstructural Silicon Powders in the Synthesis and Storage of Hydrogen
Kovalevskii À.À., Strogova À.S., Labunov V.À., Shevchenok À.À. (Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus, and others)

Chapter 6. Positronics and Nanotechnologies: Possibilities of Studying Nano-objects in Technically Important Materials and Nanomaterials
Yu.A. Chaplygin, V.I. Grafutin, E.P. Svetlov-Prokopiev, S.P. Timoshenkov (Moscow State Institute of electronic Technology (MIET), Moscow, Russia, and others)

Self-Assembling of InAs Quantum Dots on GaAs(001) in Molecular Beam Epitaxy
J. Wu, Y. P. Zeng, B. Q. Wang, J. Peng, Z. G. Wang (Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China)

A Green Synthesis of ZnxCd1-xS Nanoparticles Using Soluble Starch as Capping Agent
Qinglian Wei, Shi-Zhao Kang, Jin Mu (Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, China)

Nanotechnology: Obtaining of Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites and Their Use in Food and Drug Packaging
Edwin Moncada A., Braskem S.A. (III Polo Petroquimico, Brasil)

Scientific Strategies for Predicting Risks and Hazards Associated with Nanomaterials
Amanda S. Barnard (School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia)

Index