This first ever reference book that focuses on metal chalcogenide semiconductor nanostructures for renewable energy applications encapsulates the state-of-the-art in multidisciplinary research on the metal chalcogenide semiconductor nanostructures (nanocrystals, nanoparticles, nanorods, nanowires, nanobelts, nanoflowers, nanoribbons and more).

The properties and synthesis of a class of nanomaterials is essential to renewable energy manufacturing and this book focuses on the synthesis of metal chalcogendie nanostructures, their growth mechanism, optical, electrical, and other important properties and their applications in different diverging fields like photovoltaics, hydrogen production, theromelectrics, lithium battery, energy storage, photocatalysis, sensors.

An important reference source for students, scientists, engineers, researchers and industrialists working on nanomaterials-based energy aspects associated with chemistry, physics, materials science, electrical engineering, energy science and technology, and environmental science.

A newspaper article inspired 14 years old Maqbool Qurashi to immigrate to the US. In 1947 after the loss of his father in the ensuing conflict resulting from the India's partition, his family had to flee to Pakistan as refugees. There he experienced the pain and hopelessness of other refugees. Dream Chaser chronicles his adventures through three continents in pursuit of his dream. His anecdotes, sometimes serious and other times humorous string together an uplifting story of loss, love and triumph that will strike a chord with anyone who believe in following their dreams. Dream Chaser is 2011 finalist in Florida Writers' Association's Royal Palm Literary Awards.

It is important new text book, sharply focous on begomoviruses. It is first report from Pakistan. The sequences obtained in this study were compared with reported sequence in NCBI database using BLAST analysis and preliminary results showed that clone FQ-1 is a strain of MeYVMV and FQ-2, FQ-3 and FQ-4 are isolates of AEV. Sequence FQ-1 were downloaded and used for sequence comparison in MegAlign by Clustal V method. MegAlign results showed that clone FQ-1 has between 89.9 and 91.9% identity to MeYVMV. It encodes six ORF typical of Old World begomoviruses. The complete sequence of FQ-1 is submitted to NCBI databank under accession no. HE578897. Phylogenetic analysis showed that sequence of obtained in this study has a distinct position in the phylogenetic tree and it appears to be among the ancestors of already reportd MeYVMV. In multiple alignment the comparison of the IR sequence of MeYVMV (DNA-A) with that of other isolates of the species showed that it has a stem-loop structure (with a nonanucleotide TAATATTAC) and TATA box forming part of Rep promoter like other begomoviruses. There are three iterons (ACCGA/CT), F1 and F2 on virion-sense strand and R1 on complementary strand.