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<p>Preface vii</p> <p><b>CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS, PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNTIONAL NANOMATERIALS</b></p> <p>Effect of Annealing and Transition Metal Doping on Structural, Optical and Magnetic Properties of ZnO Nanomaterial 3<br /> <i>Navendu Goswami</i></p> <p>Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Graphene Encapsulated Palladium Nanoparticles 17<br /> <i>Junchi Wu and Nitin Chopra</i></p> <p>Well Adhered, Nanocrystalline, Photoactive, Ti02, Thin Films Dip-Coated On Corona-Treated Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) by Modified Sol-Gel Processing at ~95°C and Drying at ~130°C 31<br /> <i>H.C. Pham, D.A.H. Hanaor, Ü.M. Cox, and C.C. Sorrell</i></p> <p>Large-Scale Synthesis of MoS2-Polymer Derived SiCN Composite Nanosheets 45<br /> <i>R. Bhandavat, L. David, U. Barrera, and G. Singh</i></p> <p>Synthesis of Ti02/Sn02 Bifunctional Nanocomposites 53<br /> <i>Huaming Yang and Chengli Huo</i></p> <p>Fabrication of Porous Mullite by Freeze Casting and Sintering of Alumina-Silica Nanoparticles 57<br /> <i>Wenle Li, Margaret Anderson, Kathy Lu, and John Y. Walz</i></p> <p>Low Temperature Sintering of a Gadolinium-Doped Ceria for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 65<br /> <i>Pasquale F. Lavorato, and Leon L. Shaw</i></p> <p><b>NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR ENERGY, HEALTHCARE, AND INDUSTRY</b></p> <p>Current Status and Prospects of Nanotechnology in Arab States 79<br /> <i>Bassam Alfeeli, Ghada Al-Naqi, and Abeer Al-Qattan</i></p> <p>Finite Element Modeling for Mode Reduction in Bundled Sapphire Photonic Crystal Fibers 93<br /> <i>Neal T. Pfeiffenberger and Gary R. Pickrell</i></p> <p>p-Type Silicon Optical Fiber 103<br /> <i>Brian Scott, Ke Wang, Adam Floyd, and Gary Pickrell</i></p> <p>Synthesis and Characterization of Cobalt Aluminate and Fe203 Nanocomposite Electrode for Solar Driven Water Splitting to Produce Hydrogen 109<br /> <i>Sudhakar Shet, Kwang-Soon Ahn, Yanfa Yan, Heli Wang, Nuggehalli Ravindra, John Turner, and Mowafak Al-Jassim</i></p> <p>Influence of Substrate Temperature and RF Power on the Formation of ZnO Nanorods for Solar Driven Hydrogen Production 115<br /> <i>Sudhakar Shet, Heli Wang, Yanfa Yan, Nuggehalli Ravindra, John Turner, and Mowafak Al-Jassim</i></p> <p>Porous Material Fabrication using Ice Particles as a Pore Forming Agent 121<br /> <i>Samantha Smith and Gary Pickrell</i></p> <p>Random-Hole Optical Fiber Sensors and Their Sensing Applications 129<br /> <i>Ke Wang, Brian Scott, Neal Pfeiffenberger, and Gary Pickrell</i></p> <p>Wetting Properties of Silicon Incorporated DLC Films on Aluminum Substrate 135<br /> <i>Tae Gyu Kim, Van Cao Nguyen, Hye Sung Kim, Soon-Jik Hong, and Ri-ichi Murakami</i></p> <p>Nanoporous Ag Prepared by Electrochemical Dealloying of Melt-Spun Cu-Ag-Si Alloys 141<br /> <i>Guijing Li, FeiFei Lu, Linping Zhang, Zhanbo Sun, Xiaoping Song, Bingjun Ding, and Zhimao Yang</i></p> <p>Effect of Film Thickness on Electrical and Optical Properties of ZnO/Ag Dual Layer Film 149<br /> <i>Hiromi Yabe, Eri Akita, Pangpang Wang, Daisuke Yonekura, Ri-ichi Murakami, and Xiaoping Song</i></p> <p>Author Index 157</p>

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