Nanomaterials

This book highlights recent advances and evolution of various nanomaterials and their potential in diverse research fields. The book covers the synthesis and characterization of various nanomaterials, followed by discussion on desired applications such as clean and green renewable energy, coating, sensors, thermal applications, microelectronics, biomedical applications such as drug carriers, nutrition, biosensors and detection of cancer cells.  The chapters in this book not only illustrate the capability of nanomaterials in such novel usages but also reveal their potential drawbacks and the possible ways to overcome the pitfalls. The book covers interdisciplinary research advancement of nanomaterials, beneficial for researchers and professionals working in both science and engineering.

Dr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2010. Dr. Singh was subsequently a CSIR-Nehru Post-doc at NCL Pune, NRF post doc at Seoul, South Korea, and prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) post doc Fellow in Germany. Dr. Singh was also awarded the prestigious international award of JSPS fellowship, Japan, Dr. DS Kothari Post-doc fellowship, CSIR-SRF, UGC- Meritorious fellowship (RFSMS), etc. Currently, Dr. Singh is working as Assistant Professor of Physics at IITRAM Ahmedabad. His research group is mainly focused on Frequency and time domain Spectroscopic tencinques, their developments and applications on Ionic Liquids, Biomolecules, Functionalized Nanomaterials, Molecular Interactions, reneable enregy based materials etc. Moreover, he has written many Book chapter and have the patent granted by the USA. He has organized many workshops and conference on Functional Molecules and Materials. Dr. Singh has Edited 2 Book in Springer Nature as a corresponding Editor.  Dr. Singh has been awarded the prestegious ECR project grant by SERB-DST Government of India and DST-Inspire project for his PhD student. Dr. Singh has published more than 75 reserch papers in international journal of repute.Dr Sanjay Singh is currently working as Scientist – F at DBT-National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad, India. Dr Singh obtained his PhD degree from CSIR–National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando and at the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Pennsylvania, USA. Subsequently, Dr Singh worked at Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India as Assistant Professor (2012 – 2017) and Associate Professor (2017 – 2021) and  worked on novel inorganic nanozymes exhibiting catalytic activities and multifunctional drug delivering nanocarriers. Dr Singh has published 95 international peer-reviewed scientific research papers, 19 book chapters, and 4 edited books in the area of Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicines. Dr Singh has been bestowed with several international awards including the prestigious Endeavour Research Fellowship, Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial international grant award, International Association of Advanced Materials Scientist Medal, and EMBO fellowship. Dr Singh has also attracted several research grants from national and international funding agencies.    Prabhakar Singh, Ph.D. (University of Muenster Germany) is Professor in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi. He completed his M.Sc. in Physics and M.Tech. in Materials Science and Technology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is graduated from Udai Pratap College, Varanasi. Prof. Singh has served as Assistant Professor in Udai Pratap College Varanasi and Indira Gandhi National Open Uni