Preface ........................................................ ix
Contributors ................................................... xi
1 Hybrids from Polymer Colloids and Metallic Nanoparticles:
A Novel Type of "Green" Catalyst ............................. 1
Yan Lu and Matthias Ballauff
2 Metal and Metal Oxide Nanostructure on Resin Support ........ 23
Mrinmoyee Basu and Tarasankar Pal
3 Pd-Nanoparticle Catalyzed Poly(hydro)siloxane Grafting:
A Selective and Efficient Approach to Organic/Inorganic
Hybrid Polymers ............................................. 65
Bhanu P.S. Chauhan, Jitendra S. Rathore, and Moni Chauhan
4 Design and Synthesis of Nanohybrid Systems Based on
Silicon-Oxygen Bond ......................................... 97
Yusuke Kawakami
5 Nanocrystalline Magnesium Oxide for Asymmetric Organic
Reactions .................................................. 139
Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam and Venkat Reddy Chintareddy
6 Boron-Based Hybrid Nanostructures: Novel Applications of
Modern Materials ........................................... 181
Zhu Yinghuai, Koh Cheng Yan, John A. Maguire, and
Narayan S. Hosmane
7 The Exploration of Biomedical Multimodality in Small
Solid Core Nanoparticles ................................... 199
Marc Walters
8 A Survey Study of Interactions of Gold Nanoparticles with
Common Human Blood Plasma Proteins ......................... 219
Silvia H. De Paoli Lacerda, Jack F. Douglas, and Alamgir
Karim
9 Genetically Modified Collagen-like Triple Helix Peptide
as Biomimetic Template ..................................... 251
Prerna Kaur, Hanying Bai, and Hiroshi Matsui
10 Polydiacetylene-Containing Liposomes as Sensory
Materials .................................................. 269
Manas K. Haldar, Michael D. Scott, and Sanku Mallik
11 Block-Copolymer-Templated Synthesis of Ordered Silicas
with Closed Mesopores ...................................... 285
Michal Kruk and Chin Ming Hui
12 Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials: Organization,
Functionalization, and Potential Applications in
Environmental Domain ....................................... 299
Ahmad Mehdi
Index ......................................................... 331
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