Description: Applications of Nanostructured Ferrites provides an overview of materials design and characterization of ferrite nanomaterials for a diverse array of applications. In particular, the book investigates the large-scale use of ferrite materials, an important category of magnetic materials for environmental remediation such as waste water treatment. In addition, it considers ferrites to enable new technologies in energy, sensing, flexible and conductive electronics, and MEMs applications. This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners in the disciplines of materials science, engineering, chemistry and physics.
Brief description: Professor R.C. Srivastava is currently working as Head of Department in the Department of Physics, G.B. Pant University of Ag. & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttrakhand, India. He joined Pantnagar in 1993. He did his Ph.D. from I.I.T. Kanpur in 1990. He is actively engaged in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials. His research interests include magnetic nanomaterials, spintronics, diluted magnetic semiconductors, superconducting materials, magnetic thin films etc. He is also working on the modification of materials by swift heavy ion irradiation.