Nanocomposites engineering

The engineering of novel deviees requires, in many eases, materials with finely seleeted and preestablished properties. In partieular, one of the most promising lines of synthetic materials research consists in the development of nanostructured systems (nanocomposites). This term describes materials with structures on typical length scale of 1-100 nm. Nanometric pieces of materials are in an intermediate position between the atom and the solid, displaying electronic, chemical and structural properties that are distinct from the bulk. The use of nanoparticles as a material component widens enormously the available attributes that can be realised in practice, which otherwise would be limited to bulk solid properties. 

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Research tools and fundamental understanding New catalyst design for effective integration of bio-, homo- and heterogeneous catalysis New approaches to realize one-pot complex multistep reactions Understanding catalytic processes at the interface in nanocomposites New routes for nano-design of complex catalysis, hybrid catalytic materials and reactive thin films New preparation methods to synthesize tailored catalytic surfaces New theoretical and computational predictive tools for catalysis and catalytic reaction engineering... 

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Depan, D., Venkata Surya, P. . C., Girrase, B., and Misra, R. D. K. (2011). Organic/inorganic hybrid network structure nanocomposite scaffolds based on grafted chitosan for tissue engineering. Acta Biomater. 7,2163-2175. 

Surface engineering of polymers by infusion. Supercritical-fluid contact can reversibly swell some polymer surfaces and films thus helping to enhance impregnation by monomers with subsequent polymerization to form nanocomposite anchored layers. - ... 

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