Nanostructured oxides / edited by Challa S.S.R. Kumar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The biomimetic synthesis of metal oxide nanomaterials / Leila F. Deravi, Joshua D. Swartz, and David W. Wright -- Synthesis of symmetric and asymmetric nanosilica for materials, optical, and medical applications / Yongquan Qu, Jennifer Lien, and Ting Guo -- One-dimensional silica structures and their applications to the biological sciences / Daniel Choi ... [et al.] -- Approaches to the biofunctionalization of spherical silica nanomaterials / Michihiro Nakamura -- Mesoporous cage-like silica monoliths for optical sensing of pollutant ions / Sherif a. El-Safty, Kohmei Halada, and Hirohisa Yamada -- Nanoscale bioactive silicate glasses in biomedical applications / Tobias J. Brunner, Wendelin J. Stark, and Aldo R. Boccaccini -- Toxicity of spherical and anisotropic nanosilica / Yuhui Jin, Samuel Lohstreter, and Julia Xiaojun Zhao -- Zirconia nanomaterials : synthesis and biomedical application / Georg Garnweitner -- Metal oxide nanomaterials for water treatment / Jinbo Fei and Junbai Li -- Approaches to mesoscale modeling of nanoparticle-cell membrane interactions / Valeriy V. Ginzburg ... [et al.] -- Porous silicon particles for imaging and therapy of cancer / Rita E. Serda ... [et al.] -- Spherical and anisotropic hydroxyapatite nanocrystals / Susmita Bose ... [et al.] -- Calcium phosphate nanoparticles in biomaterialization and biomaterials / Ruikang Tang and Yurong Cai.