Manufacture of nanostructures, application, and use of techniques applied to engineering.

New Uses of Micro and Nanomaterials

The Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) invention in 1981, the development of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) in 1984 and the discovery of fullerenes in 1985, are the three major events that defined the birth of Nanotechnology. These three events triggered a series of new searches and applications micro and nanostructured materials, with appear modified and different physical and chemical properties that in the same elements at larger scales. It is for this reason, that the precise control of individual components in nanostructures is crucial to realizing different functionalities in applications in electronics, energy-conversion devices, biotechnologies and others specific applications. The morphology of the nanostructures depends not only on the compatibility between their component phases but on the mixing method and its dispersion if used chemical approaches are. On the other hand, the use of physical methods, self-assembly, and bottom-up approaches also allow synthesizing bulk nanostructures. The micro and the microscopic properties of the system (optical or magnetic properties, conductivity, etc.) can vary without changing the chemical composition of the original material simply by controlling different parameters in the nanoscale of the materials. In this book, the reader will find from the manufacture of nanostructures with current methodologies to the application and use of them in different techniques applied to engineering. These aspects make the application and development of new composites offer attractiveness in different technologic fields, improving performance parameters in equipment with the respective energy savings. As well as, new and improved technological applications are allowed in unthinkable fields of science. This collection of articles present a set of excellent studies prepared using state-of-art methodologies by professional researchers from different countries in the most diverse areas of knowledge and make the book an excellent tool for those interested that looking for the latest progress​ about topics of the in nanotechnology.