Advanced Functional Materials (advanced Material Series)

Because of their unique properties (size, shape, and surface functions), functional materials are gaining significant attention in the areas of energy conversion and storage, sensing, electronics, photonics, and biomedicine. Within the chapters of this book written by well-known researchers, one will find the range of methods that have been developed for preparation and functionalization of organic, inorganic and hybrid structures which are the necessary building blocks for the architecture of various advanced functional materials. The book discusses these innovative methodologies and research strategies, as well as provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of the cutting-edge research on the processing, properties and technology developments of advanced functional materials and their applications. Specifically, **Advanced Functional Materials**: * Compiles the objectives related to functional materials and provides detailed reviews of fundamentals, novel production methods, and frontiers of functional materials, including metalic oxides, conducting polymers, carbon nanotubes, discotic liquid crystalline dimers, calixarenes, crown ethers, chitosan and graphene. * Discusses the production and characterization of these materials, while mentioning recent approaches developed as well as their uses and applications for sensitive chemiresistors, optical and electronic materials, solar hydrogen generation, supercapacitors, display and organic light-emitting diodes, functional adsorbents, and antimicrobial and biocompatible layer formation. This volume in the Advanced Materials Book Series includes twelve chapters divided into two main areas: **Part 1: Functional Metal Oxides: Architecture, Design and Applications** and **Part 2: Multifunctional Hybrid Materials: Fundamentals and Frontiers** Functional metal oxides : architecture, design, and applications. Development of toxic chemicals sensitive chemiresistors based on metal oxides, conducting polymers and nanocomposites thin films / Sadia Ameen, M. Shaheer Akhtar, Hyung-Kee Seo, and Hyung-Shik Shin The synthetic strategy for developing mesoporous materials through nanocasting route / Rawesh Kumar and Biswajit Chowdhury Spray pyrolysis of nano-structured optical and electronic materials / Nurdan Demirci Sankir, Erkan Aydin, Esma Ugur, and Mehmet Sankir Multifunctional spinel ferrite nanoparticles for biomedical application / Noppakun Sanpo, Cuie Wen, Christopher C. Berndt, and James Wang Heterostructures based on TiO2 and silicon for solar hydrogen generation / Dilip Kumar Behara, Arun Prakash Upadhyay, Gyan Prakash Sharma, B.V. Sai Krishna Kiran, Sri Sivakumar and Raj Ganesh S. Pala Studies on electrochemical properties of MnO2 and CuO decorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes as high-performance electrode materials / Mohan Raja. Multifunctional hybrid materials : fundamentals and frontiers. Discotic liquid crystalline dimers : chemistry and applications / Shilpa Setia, Sandeep Kumar and Santanu Kumar Pal Supramolecular nanoassembly and its potential / Alok Pandya, Heena Goswami, Anand Lodha and Pinkesh Sutariya Carbon-based hybrid composites as advanced electrodes for supercapacitors / S.T. Senthilkumar, K. Vijaya Sankar , J. S. Melo, A. Gedanken, and R. Kalai Selvana Synthesis, characterization, and uses of novel-architecture copolymers through gamma radiation technique / H. Ivan Melendez-Ortiz and Emilio Bucio Advanced composite adsorbents : chitosan versus graphene / George Z. Kyzas Antimicrobial biopolymers / S. Sayed and M.A. Jardine Organometal halide perovskites for photovoltaic applications / Sai Bai, Yizheng Jin, and Feng Gao.