Theory of Quantum Transport at Nanoscale: An Introduction Dmitry A. Ryndyk
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Nanotechnology-Enhanced Orthopedic Materials: Fabrications, Applications and Future Trends Lei Yang Woodhead Publishing, 2015 234 pages, $170.00 ISBN 9780857098443
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hi book his b k is i split li in i two parts. Part one, “Fundamentals of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials for Orthopedics,” has four chapters covering fundamentals, metals and alloys, nanoceramics, and bioinspired nanopolymers and nanocomposites for implants and applications. Part two, “Future Trends in NanotechnologyEnhanced Orthopedic Materials,” has five chapters, covering carbon nanostructures, self-assembled nanostructures for bone- tissue engineering, nanotechnology-controlled drug delivery for treating bone diseases, frontiers, and safety in the field. The objectives of the author are ambiguous: the book does not have the wide and deep approach to be a textbook, nor the related necessary educational approach (e.g., there are no homework problems for students or similar teaching material). Moreover, it is hardly an exhaustive account of current trends in the field, as informative material on
the well-established results versus open problems and new approaches is insufficient. In fact, the introductory concepts (all of chapter 1 and the introductory notions of every chapter) are quite trivial for researchers active in the field and too generic for young researchers. Furthermore, the short technical portion of every chapter has only a partial literature review. It basically mentions the summary of results from a curiously select choice of papers in the field, and only concisely. It lacks discussions of significant contributions from important scientists in the field. For example, in chapter 2, the author discusses titanium-based biomaterials, summarizing the results of 15 references—supposedly the crucial ones in the field—in two and a half pages out of the chapter’s 17 pages. The problem is that among the references, most of which come from the group to which the author belongs, not one comes from the
Theory of Quantum Transport at Nanoscale: An Introduction Dmitry A. Ryndyk Springer, 2016 246 pages, $129.00 (e-book $99.00) ISBN 978-3-319-24086-2
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rofessor Dmitry A. Ryndyk is an expert on quantum transport theory and has taught classes on this subject at the University of Regensberg and Technische Universität Dresden. This book has been developed from his course notes and is aimed at being a suitable advancedlevel textbook for master’s- and PhD-level students, with the further intent that it be
useful for experts working in the fields of quantum transport theory and nanoscience. Topics that the author says are not discussed include quantum interference of the Aharonov–Bohm type, weak localization, universal conductance fluctuations, random matrix theory, the quantum Hall effect, and quasiclassical and semiclassical transport. There are nine chapters split in two parts.
extensive data produced by the group of M. Textor, which also published a reference book and a large number of papers on titanium-based biomaterials. For such a current and
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