Handbook of Nanomaterials Properties

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, and Doctor Honoris Causa from the Metal-Polymer Research Institute of National Academy of Sciences at Gomel, Belarus in 2000. He is a registered professional engineer (mechanical) and presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate Research Faculty Advisor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Director of the Nanotribology Laboratory for Information Storage & MEMS/NEMS (NLIM) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is an internationally recognized expert of tribology on the macro- to nanoscales, and is one of the most prolific authors in the field. He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices and a leading researcher in the fields of nanotribology and nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy and applications to micro/nanotechnology.

Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.- Electronic properties of Si and Ge pure and core-shell nanowires from first principle study.- Compositionally Graded III-nitride Nanowire Heterostructures: Growth, Characterization, and Applications.- Mechanical Characterization of Graphene.- Nanostructured ZnO materials: synthesis, properties and applications.- Nanosized gold and silver spherical, spiky and multi-branched particles.- Magnetite and other Fe-oxide nanoparticles.- Hierarchical Self-assembled Peptide Nano-ensembles.- Nanostructure Formation in Hydrogels.- Nanomanipulation and nanotribology of nanoparticles and nanotubes using atomic force microscopy.- Fabrication, properties and applications of gold nanopillars.- Stabilization and characterization of iron oxide superparamagnetic core-shell nanoparticles for biomedical applications.- Bio-inorganic nanomaterials for biomedical applications (Bio-silica and Polyphosphate).- Lipids as biological materials for nanoparticulate delivery.- Magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications.- Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Metals.- Properties of Diamond Nanomaterials.- Sensing the mechanical properties of supported micro- to nano- elastic films.- Metal structures as advanced materials in Nanotechnology.- Metal oxide nanocrystals and their properties for application in solar cells.