Smart Nanomaterials

Smart nanomaterials are the basis of diverse emerging applications, and this book covers their technological advances, innovations, and practical applications. It covers advances in the most critical aspects in chemistry and material fabrication of nanomaterials including engineering/prospective applications. The application of smart nanomaterials in the biomedical field, agriculture, food industry, and apparel industry is covered with practical examples. It discusses the future of smart nanomaterials and the pros and cons associated with smart nanomaterials in a detailed manner.

Features:

• Reviews synthesis methods, characterization techniques, and applications of smart nanomaterials.
• Explores the significance of using smart nanomaterials in futuristic life including examples.
• Covers bionsensor sensitivity, selectivity, and stability for long-term operation and nanotechnology technique for possibly detecting hazardous viruses.
• Provides the manufacturing advantages, energy and electronic advantages, medical benefits, environmental effects, and economic issues.
• Explains risk assessment on humans in detail.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in nanomaterials and materials science.

智能納米材料是各種新興應用的基礎，本書涵蓋了它們的技術進展、創新和實際應用。它涵蓋了納米材料化學和材料製造方面的最關鍵進展，包括工程/潛在應用。書中以實際例子介紹了智能納米材料在生物醫學領域、農業、食品工業和服裝工業中的應用。它詳細討論了智能納米材料的未來以及與之相關的優點和缺點。

特點：
- 綜述了智能納米材料的合成方法、表徵技術和應用。
- 探討了在未來生活中使用智能納米材料的重要性，並提供了相關例子。
- 詳細介紹了生物傳感器的靈敏度、選擇性和長期運行的穩定性，以及可能檢測有害病毒的納米技術技巧。
- 提供了製造優勢、能源和電子優勢、醫療效益、環境影響和經濟問題的相關信息。
- 詳細解釋了對人類的風險評估。

本書針對納米材料和材料科學的研究人員和研究生。

Dr. Imalka Munaweera is a winner of the 2021 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World for her research in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics especially for her research contribution to the nanotechnology-related projects. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka. She has over 10+ years of teaching experience in Nanotechnology, Application of Nanotechnology, Inorganic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, and Instrumental Analysis. She has over 15+ years of research experience in the field of Nanotechnology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Materials Science. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA in 2015. She has served as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, USA. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA. Her research interests are nanotechnology for drug delivery/pharmaceutical applications, agricultural applications, and water purification applications. Furthermore, she also pursues research toward development of nanomaterials from natural resources for various industrial applications. She has authored many publications in indexed journals and is also an inventor of four US-granted patents (licensed and commercialized), international patents, and Sri Lankan-granted patents related to nanoscience and nanotechnology-based research. Further, she is a recipient of many awards related to nanoscience and nanotechnology research. In addition, she is a principal investigator (PI) for a research grant which was awarded by World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and a core PI for two more grants (NRC PPP-Sri Lanka and TWAS). Apart from being awarded many accolades in both the USA and Sri Lanka, including scholarships, she has also taken part in paper review and many conference presentations and contributed to abstract awards as well. Some of her awards include the National Science & Technology Award in Sri Lanka in 2010 under the category of innovative advanced technologies with commercial potential that was awarded by the President of Sri Lanka and several graduate competition awards awarded by the American Chemical Society.

Ms. Chamalki Madhusha is a graduate research assistant, and she has obtained her BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Currently, she is working toward a sustainable future through green chemistry and nanotechnology-based findings. Her research interests include materials chemistry, food chemistry, green chemistry, and nanotechnology with high-impact journal publications. She is engaged in generating new research ideas and devising feasible solutions to broadly relevant problems. She is an author of eight indexed publications, two local and international patents, and four international conference abstracts.

Dr. Imalka Munaweera是2021年OWSD-Elsevier基金會頒發的發展中國家早期職業女性科學家獎的得主，獲獎原因是她在化學、數學和物理學方面的研究，尤其是她對納米技術相關項目的研究貢獻。目前，她是斯里蘭卡斯里賈亞瓦德納普勒大學化學系的高級講師。她在納米技術、納米技術應用、無機化學、高分子化學和儀器分析方面擁有超過10年的教學經驗。她在納米技術、無機化學和材料科學領域擁有超過15年的研究經驗。她於2015年在美國德州達拉斯大學獲得化學博士學位。她曾在美國德州普雷里維尤A＆M大學擔任助理教授，並在美國德州達拉斯大學西南醫學中心擔任博士後研究員。她的研究興趣包括納米技術在藥物傳遞/制藥應用、農業應用和水淨化應用方面。此外，她還致力於從自然資源中開發納米材料，用於各種工業應用。她在索引期刊上發表了許多論文，並且是四項獲得美國專利（已許可和商業化）、國際專利和斯里蘭卡專利的發明人，這些專利與納米科學和納米技術相關的研究有關。此外，她還獲得了許多與納米科學和納米技術研究相關的獎項。此外，她是由世界科學院（TWAS）授予的研究資助的首席調查員（PI），並且還是兩項其他資助（NRC PPP-斯里蘭卡和TWAS）的核心調查員。除了在美國和斯里蘭卡獲得許多獎項，包括獎學金，她還參與了論文審查和許多會議演講，並為摘要獎做出了貢獻。她的一些獎項包括2010年斯里蘭卡國家科學與技術獎，該獎項由斯里蘭卡總統頒發，獎項類別為具有商業潛力的創新先進技術，以及由美國化學學會頒發的多個研究生競賽獎。

Ms. Chamalki Madhusha是一名研究生研究助理，她在斯里蘭卡斯里賈亞瓦德納普勒大學獲得了化學學士學位。目前，她正在通過綠色化學和基於納米技術的發現為可持續未來做出貢獻。她的研究興趣包括材料化學、食品化學、綠色化學和納米技術，並在高影響力期刊上發表了八篇論文。她致力於產生新的研究思路，並提出廣泛相關問題的可行解決方案。她是兩項本地和國際專利以及四項國際會議摘要的作者。