21st Century Nanoscience – A Handbook

Klaus D. Sattler pursued his undergraduate and master’s courses at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. He received his PhD under the guidance of Professors G. Busch and H.C. Siegmann at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He was at the University of California, Berkeley, for three years as a Heisenberg fellow, where he initiated the first studies of atomic clusters on surfaces with a scanning tunneling microscope. Dr. Sattler accepted a position as professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, in 1988. In 1994, his group produced the first carbon nanocones. His current work focuses on novel nanomaterials and solar photocatalysis with nanoparticles for the purification of water. He is the editor of the sister references, Carbon Nanomaterials Sourcebook (2016) and Silicon Nanomaterials Sourcebook (2017), as well as Fundamentals of Picoscience (2014). Among his many other accomplishments, Dr. Sattler was awarded the prestigious Walter Schottky Prize from the German Physical Society in 1983. At the University of Hawaii, he teaches courses in general physics, solid state physics, and quantum mechanics.

"There is considerable hope for the application of nanomaterials in many fields, from nanomedicine to nanoelectronics. Editor Sattler (Univ. of Hawaii) here presents the first installment of a ten-volume series on nanoscience whose final volume (covering public policy, education, and global trends) is promised for later this year. This initial book contains 21 chapters on a variety of topics related to nanoscience, generally slanted toward theoretical concepts rather than experiment and applications (covered in later volumes). Seven chapters discuss transport theory, and another five cover numerical methods and simulations. All 21 chapters assume at least basic familiarity with their subject matter, but there is considerable variation among them in the level of experience required of readers. Chapter 12 provides a concise introduction to random matrix theory, but there is not much material on its specific applicability to nanosystems. Chapter 19 explains the use of density functional methods in nanosystems, but readers probably would need previous exposure to density functional theory. Chapter 18, on the phase behavior of nanosystems, is notably brief. Owing to the rapid pace of nanoscience research and its interdisciplinary character, this volume—and the entire series—is probably most appropriate for acquisition by institutions with active research programs in the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology."-M. C. Ogilvie, Washington University, CHOICE, October 2020

• 1. Theoretical Atto-Nano Physics 2. The de Broglie Wave-Nature of Molecules, Clusters & Nanoparticles 3. Electromagnetic Nanonetworks 4. Nanoscale Energy Transport 5. Coulomb Effects and Exotic Charge Transport in Nanostructured Materials 6. Spin-Dependent Thermoelectric Currents in Nanostructures (Tunnel Junctions, Thin Films, Small Rings and Quantum Dots) 7. Joule Heat Generation by Electric Current in Nanostructures 8. Quantum Transport Simulation of Nanosystems: An Introduction to the Green's Function Approach 9. Transient Quantum Transport in Nanostructures 10. Thermal Transport in Nanofilms 11. Thermal Transport and Phonon Coherence in Phononic Nanostructures 12. Quantum Chaotic Systems and Random Matrix Theory 13. Topological Constraint Theory and Rigidity of Glasses 14. Topological Descriptors of Carbon Nanostructures 15. Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Electronic State Calculations on Supercomputer 16. Atomistic Simulation of Disordered Nanoelectronics 17. Ab Initio Simulations of Carboxylated Nanomaterials 18. Phase Behavior of Atomic and Molecular Nanosystems 19. Exact Solutions in the Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent DFT of Mesoscopic Systems 20. Molecular Simulation of Porous Graphene 21. Metallic Nanoglases Investigated by Molecular Dynamics Simulations -