Metal oxides exhibit many unique structural, electronic, and magnetic properties, making them useful for a broad range of technological applications.
Nanotechnology offers a broad technological base for applications in several areas such as modeling, bioprocessing in industry, and molecular medicine [4 6].
Up to now, many efforts have been spent to produce smart materials with extraordinary properties usable in broad range of technological applications.
Lanthanide-doped phosphors have been investigated and employed in a broad range of technological applications such as solar energy converters, fluorescent lighting and high-performance displays [1, 2].
The reported 3D printed rGO-Al2O3 composite offers a strategy for the fabrication of other graphene-ceramic composites with a high geometric surface area for a broad range of technological applications.
Rapid droplet removal by regulating surface topology and wettability has been exploited in nature and it is of great importance for a broad range of technological applications including water desalination and harvesting, power generation, environmental control, and thermal management.
The possibility to obtain a controlled dispersion of metal particles in/on suitable oxides (inside- and outside-cluster systems, respectively) paves the way to a broad spectrum of technological applications, ranging from heterogeneous catalysis, to gas sensing and non-linear optics.
Fe3O4 nanoparticles are always used to form magnetic nanofluids because of their broad potential and practical technological applications and fundamental scientific significance [3 10].
Thin film micromagnetics are a broad class of materials with many technological applications, primarily in magnetic memory.
Nanotechnology has been a revolutionary thrust in recent years of development of science and technology for its broad appeal for employing a novel idea for relevant technological applications in particular and for mass-scale production and marketing as common man commodity in general.
