• Preface

  Preface

  Author(s): Professor Ishaq Ahmad Professor Paolo Di Sia and Professor Rizwan Raza

• Chapter 1

  Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activities of a Bismuth Lipophilic Nanoparticles Hydrogelagainst Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilm

  Author(s): Rene Hernández-Delgadillo, Erika Cecilia Espinoza-Villarreal, Casiano Del Angel-Mosqueda, Osvelia Esmeralda Rodríguez-Luis and Claudio Cabral-Romero

• Chapter 2

  Metal oxide-based electrode materials for supercapacitor applications

  Author(s): P.Y. Chan, S.R. Majid

• Chapter 3

  Metal Oxide Nanostructure-modified Electrode for Glucose Biosensor

  Author(s): Khairunisak Abdul Razak, Noorhashimah Mohamad Nor and Nur Syafinaz Ridhuan

• Chapter 4

  Electrochemical Deposition of Nanoporous Metallic Foams for Energy Applications

  Author(s): Randa Abdel-Karim, Saad El-Raghy

• Chapter 5

  Nitrogen doped twisted graphene

  Author(s): Ivan V. Komissarov, Nikolai G. Kovalchuk, Algirdas Lazauskas, Mindaugas Andrulevičius, Sigitas Tamulevičius, Nikolai I. Kargin and Serghej L. Prischepa

• Chapter 6

  Multiplexing of nanoparticles-based lateral flow immunochromatographic strip: A review

  Author(s): Mohammad Lukman Yahaya, Nor Dyana Zakaria, Rahmah Noordin and Khairunisak Abdul Razak

• Chapter 7

  Synthesis and fabrication of gold nanoparticles thin films and their applications in non-volatile organic memory devices

  Author(s): S. A. Ng and K. A. Razak

• Chapter 8

  Comparison of optical properties in Er_xSc_2-xSi₂O₇ and Er_2-xY_xSi₂O₇ silicate and their applications

  Author(s): Adel Najar, Hiroo Omi and Takehiko Tawara

• Chapter 9

  Optical and Electrical Properties of Transition Metal Ion doped Sol-Gel Materials

  Author(s): B. Chandra Babu, B. Vengala Rao, G. Bhaskar Kumar, G. Hungerford, N. Sooraj Hussain and Artemis Stamboulis

• Chapter 10

  Bioresorbable metallic implants: surface functionalization with nanoparticles and nanostructures

  Author(s): C. Santos, M. M. Alves, M. F. Montemor, M. J. Carmezim

• Chapter 11

  Thermoelectric properties of ZnO

  Author(s): K. Mahmood, M. I Arshad, A. Ali, M. Ajaz un Nabi, N. Amin, M. Azhar Khan, F. Iqbal, M. Isa

• Chapter 12

  Ion beams for material analysis

  Author(s): Masahiro Saito

• Chapter 13

  Nanocomposite MIEC Materials for Advance Energy Devices

  Author(s): Rizwan Raza, Naveed Akhtar, Khurram Hashmi, Sophia Akhtar, Bin Zhu

• Chapter 14

  Structural colours from self-assembled silica nanoparticles for textile coloration

  Author(s): Weihong Gao, Huw Owens, Muriel Rigout

• Chapter 15

  Mechanisms of Water Transport through Nanoporous Boron Nitride and Graphene Multilayers

  Author(s): Majid Shahbabaei and Daejoong Kim

Professor Paolo Di Sia

University of Padova, Verona, Italy

Paolo Di Sia is currently Adjunct Professor by the Universities of Padova and Bolzano (Italy) and member of ISEM (Institute for Scientific Methodology) in Palermo (Italy). He obtained a Laurea in Metaphysics, a Laurea in Theoretical Physics, a PhD in Mathematical Modelling applied to Nano-Bio-Technology. His scientific mainstreams are Theoretical Physics, Classical and Quantum-Relativistic Nanophysics, Nano-Bio-Technology, Nano-Neuroscience, Planck Scale Physics, History and Philosophy of Science, Mathematics and Physics Education. He wrote more than 200 publications at today (papers on national and international journals, international book chapters, books, works on scientific web-pages, in press), is reviewer of 2 mathematics books, reviewer of 12 international journals, 9 international awards obtained, member of 7 scientific societies, member of 29 International Advisory/Editorial Boards.

Professor Ishaq Ahmad

UNational Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ishaq Ahmad, PhD, is Director Experimental Physics of NCP – National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has co-authored over 80 publications in SCI journals and supervised several Master, PhD and Postdoctoral students. He has one books and number of book chapters. His research interests are focused on Ion implantation, ion beam induced modification of materials/nanomaterials, synthesis of nanomaterials/thin films and ion beam analysis of materials. He is editorial board member and reviewer of several well known journals. He was TWAS-UNESCO-iThemba LABS research Associate from 2014 to 2016. He is a senior fellow of UNESCO UNISA AFRICA Chair in Nanosciences/Nanotechnology and senior fellow of the Nanosciences African Network (NANOAFNET), an ICTP network.

Professor Rizwan Raza

COMSATS, Lahore, Pakistan

Dr Rizwan Raza completed his PhD in Energy Technology with specialization in Fuel Cell Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden. Dr Raza has 12 years of experience in Energy research and teaching. Raza has published more than 100 international journal papers, delivered 30 Invited Talks and presented 30 conference papers with total impact factor 350, h-Index-23 and total number of citations about 1400 (source: Google Scholar).

Dr Raza was the key member of the team who invented “New Energy Conversion Device” which is a simpler and more cost-effective replacement of traditional fuel cells. This mega achievement was reported in the world acclaimed journal “Nature Nanotechnology” in addition to many other scientific journals/media including Advanced Functional Materials and Swedish Magazine.

Currently Rizwan is an Assistant Professor and head of Clean Energy Research Group at COMSATS Institute in Lahore, Pakistan