Nanoscale Materials for Warfare Agent Detection: Nanoscience for Security

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bittencourt, Carla (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ewels, Chris (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Llobet, Eduard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology,
• Subjects: Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Materials-Surfaces.; Thin films.; Materials science.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Physical chemistry.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Physical Chemistry.

This book presents a blueprint for researchers in the area of nanotechnology for chemical defense, especially with regard to future research on detection and protection. It addresses the synthesis of complex nanomaterials with potential applications in a broad range of sensing systems. Above all, it...

Table of Contents:

• The feasibility of graphene-based defense applications: an industry perspective
• Carbon nanomaterials integrated in rugged and inexpensive sensing platforms for the in-field detection of chemical warfare agents;
• Sensing volatile organic compounds by phthalocyanines with metal centers: exploring the mechanism with measurements and modelling
• Chemical sensors for VOC detection in indoor air: focus on formaldehyde
• Gas sensing using monolayer MoS2; R. Canton-Vitoria et al
• Progress of Sensors based on hollow metal sulfides nanoparticles
• Synthesis of 3D-ensembles of carbon nanotubes
• Challenges on the production and characterization of B-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes
• Graphene-based metal-free catalysis: a spectroscopic point-of-view
• Graphene for Photodynamic Therapy.