Towards Efficient Designing of Safe Nanomaterials: Innovative Merge of Computational Approaches and Experimental Techniques

Leszczynski, Jerzy (Editor)/ Puzyn, Tomasz (Editor)/ Kroto, Harry (Editor)/ O'Brien, Paul (Editor)/ Craighead, Harold (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1849734534 / ISBN 13: 9781849734530

Published by Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Towards Efficient Designing of Safe Nanomaterials: Innovative Merge of Computational Approaches and Experimental Techniques
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849734534
• ISBN 13: 9781849734530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.75 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive review of recent progress and challenges in the risk assessment of nanomaterials by empirical and computational techniques.

About the Authors

Jerzy Leszczynski is Professor of Chemistry and a President's Distinguished Fellow. Director of Interdisciplinary Nanotoxicity Center. Author and co-author of almost 700 peer-reviewed papers (H index 47) and 50 book chapter. Editor of Structural Chemistry. Editor of two book series (WS and Springer - total 19 books published). Editor of two books for the TCC series (Elsevier) and co-editor of Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry - collaborative project between European Academy of Sciences and Springer. Guest editor of 23 special issues of various journals. Member of Editorial Boards of 8 journals.

Professor Puzyn holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry (University of Gda?sk, Poland). He is head of Laboratory of Environmental Chemometrics. Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jackson State University (US) and the Foundation for the Polish Science. Author and coauthor of about 40 publications related to computational methods in risk assessment of novel chemicals, including nanomaterials. Editor of a book entitled Recent Advances in QSAR Studies: Methods and Applications in a book series Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics published d in 2010 by Springer.