Nanotemplating

This book offers a comprehensive account on the recent development of several key classes of nanomaterials and their applications in various scientific areas. It summarizes the synthesis, development and characterization for each type of materials.

Humphrey H. P. Yiu is currently Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, UK. He graduated with a PhD in nanoporous materials from the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is an expert in the design and synthesis of nanomaterials for biomedical and environmental applications with over 60 research papers.

1. Surfactants and Micelles: Templates for Organic and Inorganic Nanoparticles 2. Ordered Mesoporous Silicas: Liquid Crystal Templating 3. Extended Materials from Ordered Mesoporous Silica: Mesocellular Foams and Non-Siliceous Mesoporous Materials 4. Inverse Opal: Ordered Macroporous Inorganic Oxide Nanomaterials 5. Molecular Imprinting: The Key and Lock Match 6. Bio-Templating: Using Templates from Nature to Form Nanomaterials