Foreword ....................................................... ix
Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
Editors ...................................................... xiii
Contributors ................................................... xv
1 Inorganic Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Applications, and
Perspectives—An Overview ..................................... 1
Claudia Altavilla and Enrico Ciliberto
2 Inorganic Nanoparticles for the Conservation of Works of
Art ......................................................... 17
Piero Baglioni and Rodorico Giorgi
3 Magnetic Nanoparticle for Information Storage
Applications ................................................ 33
Natalie A. Frey and Shouheng Sun
4 Inorganic Nanoparticles Gas Sensors ......................... 69
B.R. Mehta, V.N. Singh, and Manika Khanuja
5 Light-Emitting Devices Based on Direct Band Gap
Semiconductor Nanoparticles ................................ 109
Ekaterina Neshataeva, Tilmar Kümmell, and Gerd Bacher
6 Formation of Nanosized Aluminum and Its Applications in
Condensed Phase Reactions .................................. 133
Jan A. Puszynski and Lori J. Groven
7 Nanoparticles for Fuel Cell Applications ................... 159
Jin Luo, Bin Fang, Bridgid N. Wanjala, Peter N. Njoki,
Rameshwori Loukrakpam, Jun Yin, Derrick Mott, Stephanie
Lim, and Chuan-Jian Zhong
8 Inorganic Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Applications ...... 185
Elif Arici
9 Inorganic Nanoparticles and Rechargeable Batteries ......... 213
Down Aurbach and Ortal Haik
10 Quantum Dots Designed for Biomedical Applications .......... 257
Andrea Ragusa, Antonella Zacheo, Alessandra Aloisi, and
Teresa Pellegrino
11 Magnetic Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery ................... 313
Claudia Altavilla
12 Nanoparticle Thermotherapy: A New Approach in Cancer
Therapy .................................................... 343
Joerg Lehmann and Brita Lehmann
13 Inorganic Particles against Reactive Oxygen Species for
Sun Protective Products .................................... 355
Wilson A. Lee and Miriam Raifailovich
14 Innovative Inorganic Nanoparticles with Antibacterial
Properties Attached to Textiles by Sonochemistry ........... 367
Nina Perkas, Aharon Gedanken, Eva Wehrschuetz-Sigl,
Georg M. Guebitz, Ilana Perelshtein, and Guy Applerot
15 Inorganic Nanoparticles for Environmental Remediation ...... 393
Thomas B. Scott
16 Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-Like Structures—From
Synthesis to Applications .................................. 441
Maya Bar-Sadan and Reshef Tenne
17 Inorganic Nanoparticles for Catalysis ...................... 475
Naoki Toshima
18 Nanocatalysts: A New "Dimension" for Nanoparticles? ........ 511
Paolo Ciambelli, Diana Sannino, and Maria Sarno
Index ......................................................... 547
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