Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Security and Protection against CBRN Threats

Polymer-based Materials.- Recent Advances of Electrospinning and Multifunctional Electrospun Textile Materials for Chemical and Biological Protection.- Temperature Effect on Dielectric Properties of Heterogeneous Material Based on Carbon Black Loaded Copolymer Nanocomposite.- Novel Photocross-Linked Polymers for Construction of Laccase-Based Amperometric Biosensors.- Part IX Oxide and Non-oxide glasses.- Surface Phenomena in Glassy Chalcogenides by Gas Sensing.- Phase Composition and Spectroscopic Characterization of Barium Titanate Containing Glass Ceramics.- Near Infrared Photoluminescence of Nd-Doped ZBP glasses.- Determination of the Surface Properties of Combined Metal-Oxide Layers, Obtained by AC-Incorporation of Ni and Cu in Preliminary Formed AAO Matrices.- Part X Applications: Sensors and Detectors.- Testing of pH Nanosensors Based on Polyaniline/Carbon Nanostructures Coated Screen Printed Electrode.- WO3-Based Glass-Crystalline Sensor for Selective Detection of Ammonia Gas.- PartXI Applications: Water Treatment, Environment and Energy- Optimizing Bacterial Cellulose Production Towards Materials for Water Remediation.- Sodium Ferrites: New Materials to be Applied in Energy Storage Devices in a Wide Frequency Range.- Fluorescent Thin Film Probe for Nitro Compounds: Si Containing Poly[Diphenylacetylene] Case Study.- Determination of Surface Groups of Activated Carbons from Different Sources and Their Application for Heavy Metals Treatment.- Recent Trends of the Use of Rare Earth Elements for Efficient Environmentally Compliant Corrosion Protection of Aluminum and Its Alloys.- Part XII Applications: Health and Biological Threats.- Synthesis of PLGA-PEG-PLGA Polymer Nano-Micelles - Carriers of Combretastatin-Like Antitumor Agent 16Z.- Poly( -caprolactone)/Chitosan Nanostructures for Cell Cultivation.- Preparation and Characterization of Zinc and Magnesium Doped Bioglasses.- Polarized Light for Detection of Pathological Changes within Biological Tissues.- Melanoma Cells Uptake and Hyperthermia Tests of Iron-Based Magnetic Nanoparticles.- Index.

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Cyril Popov received his MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1990 and PhD in 1994 from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria. In the period 1995-1997 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan and at the Central Laboratory of Photoprocesses, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, working on preparation and investigation of novel materials in the ternary system B-C-N. In 1998 he joined the Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics (INA), University of Kassel, Germany, where at the present he is a Group leader. His current research interests cover deposition, characterization, nanostructuring and applications of nano- and ultrananocrystalline diamond films and monocrystalline diamond. He is co-author of more than 120 publications, 25 contributions to conference proceedings and 18 book chapters, co-editor of 5 books.