Imtiaz Ahmad

This classic work deals with aspects of family, kinship and marriage in Muslim communities in different parts of India. Each contribution included here is based on data collected by the authors through fieldwork in specific communities. Each contributor also seeks to describe and analyse the social institutions in terms of social practices rather than the formal laws of Islam. Some contributors do refer to the formal Islamic principles and try to examine the correspondence between them and the social practices and behaviour they found in the areas of their study. The Islamic rules relating to kinship and marriage are not their primary concern.

In this book we present results of different studies into the assembly of gold nanorods. In chapter 2 we describe the synthesis of low aspect ratio gold nanorods as used in this thesis, and review their optical properties. The role of various chemicals used in the synthesis of nanoparticles is also addressed. In chapter 3 we compare the aforementioned imaging tools as applied to our surfactant-coated gold nanorods. In chapter 4 we study the deposition of CTAB stabilized gold nanorods on HOPG surfaces using SEM, STM and AFM techniques.In chapter 5 we investigate the phase separation of gold nanospheres and nanorods on homogeneous unpatterned silicon surfaces during evaporative assembly. In the last two chapters, we focus on the evaporative assembly on chemically stripe-patterned surfaces consisting of alternating hydrophilic/hydrophobic stripes having widths in the micrometer range. More specifically, we focus on stripe-patterned surfaces with a wettability gradient, which allows to control the motion of evaporating droplets and their contact lines.

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