Meet the editor

Dr. Awadesh Kumar Mallik is a ceramic engineer from the University of Calcutta, India, who is currently a materials researcher. He started growing CVD diamond at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore laboratory during his master's thesis project for the development of vacuum tribology coatings for the Indian Space Research Organisation. He continued his scientific journey of making ceramic components for high-power electron tubes

at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research laboratory CGCRI as part of a national mission for the international fusion energy ITER program. He has executed and delivered several national and international projects. His research interests include diamond materials, thin films and coatings, CVD, PVD, tribology, bioceramics, ceramic membranes, fuel cells and batteries, ceramic powder processing, and materials science in general. He obtained a Ph.D. graduate from Jadavpur University, India, and completed an FWO postdoctoral research fellowship at Hasselt University, Belgium. He has published forty peer-reviewed articles and presented many papers at international conferences.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Norihiro Shimoi*

Modern Nanotools

Pulsed Laser Deposition

*Andrea Amaro and Julio Martos*

**Section 2**

**Preface III**

Synthesis **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 41**

Properties **65**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 85**

**Chapter 6 111**

Nonthermal Crystalline Forming of Ceramic Nanoparticles by Non-Equilibrium Excitation Reaction Field of Electron

*by Tarcisio Nascimento Correa, Igor Nunes Taveira,* 

*by Le Thi Cam Tuyen, Phuoc Huu Le and Sheng-Rui Jian*

Biomineralization of Magnetosomes: Billion-Year Evolution Shaping

Nanostructuring Bi2Te3-Based Thermoelectric Thin-Films Grown Using

Characterization of Nanocrystalline Cores for EMI Suppression in Cables

*by Adrian Suarez, Jorge Victoria, Jose Torres, Pedro A. Martinez,* 

Nano-Sized Minerals from Lower Cretaceous Sandstones in Israel

Fullerenes and Nanodiamonds for Medical Drug Delivery

Observed by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

*by Basma H. Al-Tamimi and Saad B.H. Farid*

*by Nurit Taitel-Goldman and Vladimir Ezersky*

*Rogerio Presciliano de Souza Filho and Fernanda de Avila Abreu*
