Preface |
List of Contributors |
Nanomaterials: |
An Introduction. / Volume 1: |
Strategies for the Scalable Synthesis of Quantum Dots and Related Nanodimensional Materials. / 1: |
Moving Nanoparticles Around: Phase-Transfer Processes in Nanomaterials Synthesis. / C. N. R. Rao |
Mesoscopic Assembly and Other Properties of Metal and Semiconductor Nanocrystals. |
Oxide Nanoparticles.Sonochemistry and Other Novel Methods Developed for the Synthesis of Nanoparticles. / A. Muller |
Solvothermal Synthesis of Non-Oxide Nanomaterials. |
Nanotubes and Nanowires.Synthesis, Assembly and Reactivity of Metallic Nanorods. / A. K. Cheetham |
Oxide-Assisted Growth of Silicon and Related Nanowires Growth Mechanism, Structure and Properties. |
Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystals. |
Nanomaterials--An Introduction |
Core-shell Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Biological Labeling. |
Large Semiconductor Molecules. / 1.1: |
Oxomolybdates: |
Size Effects |
From Structures to Functions in a New Era of Nanochemistry. |
Nanostructural Polymers / 1.2: |
Recent Developments in the Chemistry and Chemical Applications of Porous Silicon. |
Synthesis and Assembly |
Nanocatalysis. |
Nanoporous Materials.Photochemistry and Electrochemistry of Nanoassemblies. / 1.3: |
Electrochemistry with Nanoparticles |
Techniques |
Nanolithography and Nanomanipulation. |
Applications and Technology Development / 1.4: |
Nanoelectronics / 1.5: |
Other Aspects / 1.6: |
Concluding Remarks / 1.7: |
Bibliography |
Strategies for the Scalable Synthesis of Quantum Dots and Related Nanodimensional Materials / P. O'Brien ; N. Pickett2: |
Introduction / 2.1: |
Defining Nanodimensional Materials / 2.2: |
Potential Uses for Nanodimensional Materials / 2.3: |
The General Methods Available for the Synthesis of Nanodimensional Materials / 2.4: |
Precipitative Methods / 2.4.1: |
Reactive Methods in High Boiling Point Solvents / 2.4.2: |
Hydrothermal and Solvothermal Methods / 2.4.3: |
Gas-Phase Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanoparticles / 2.4.4: |
Synthesis in a Structured Medium / 2.4.5: |
The Suitability of Such Methods for Scaling / 2.5: |
Conclusions and Perspectives on the Future / 2.6: |
Acknowledgements |
References |
Moving Nanoparticles Around: Phase-Transfer Processes in Nanomaterials Synthesis / M. Sastry3: |
Water-Based Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis / 3.1: |
Advantages / 3.2.1: |
Disadvantages / 3.2.2: |
Organic Solution-Based Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles / 3.3: |
Moving Gold Nanoparticles Around / 3.3.1: |
Phase Transfer of Aqueous Gold Nanoparticles to Non-Polar Organic Solvents / 3.4.1: |
Transfer of Organically Soluble Gold Nanoparticles to Water / 3.4.2: |
Acknowledgments |
Mesoscopic Assembly and Other Properties of Metal and Semiconductor Nanocrystals / G. U. Kulkarni ; P. J. Thomas4: |
Abstract |
Synthetic Strategies / 4.1: |
General Methods / 4.2.1: |
Size Control / 4.2.2: |
Shape Control / 4.2.3: |
Tailoring the Ligand Shell / 4.2.4: |
Programmed Assemblies / 4.3: |
One-Dimensional Arrangements / 4.3.1: |
Two-Dimensional Arrays / 4.3.2: |
Three-Dimensional Superlattices / 4.3.3: |
Superclusters / 4.3.4: |
Colloidal Crystals / 4.3.5: |
Nanocrystal Patterning / 4.3.6: |
Emerging Applications / 4.4: |
Isolated Nanocrystals / 4.4.1: |
Collective Properties / 4.4.2: |
Nanocomputing / 4.4.3: |
Conclusions / 4.5: |
Oxide Nanoparticles / R. Seshadri5: |
Magnetite Particles in Nature / 5.1: |
Routes for the Preparation of Isolated Oxide Nanoparticles / 5.3: |
Hydrolysis / 5.3.1: |
Oxidation / 5.3.2: |
Thermolysis / 5.3.3: |
Metathesis / 5.3.4: |
Solvothermal Methods / 5.3.5: |
Prospects / 5.4: |
Sonochemistry and Other Novel Methods Developed for the Synthesis of Nanoparticles / Y. Mastai ; A. Gedanken6: |
Sonochemistry / 6.1: |
Sonochemical Fabrication of Nanometals / 6.1.1: |
Sonochemical Fabrication of Nano-Metallic Oxides / 6.1.2: |
Sonoelectrochemistry / 6.2: |
Sonoelectrochemical Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Materials / 6.2.1: |
Microwave Heating / 6.3: |
Microwave Synthesis of Nanomaterials / 6.3.1: |
Solvothermal Synthesis of Non-Oxide Nanomaterials / Y. T. Qian ; Y. L. Gu ; J. Lu7: |
Solvothermal Synthesis of III-V Nanomaterials / 7.1: |
Synthesis of Diamond, Carbon Nanotubes and Carbides / 7.3: |
Synthesis of Si[subscript 3]N[subscript 4], P[subscript 3]N[subscript 5], Metal Nitrides and Phosphides / 7.4: |
Synthesis of BN, B[subscript 4]C, BP and Borides / 7.5: |
Synthesis of One-Dimensional Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystallites / 7.6: |
Room Temperature Synthesis of Nanomaterials / 7.7: |
Nanotubes and Nanowires / A. Govindaraj8: |
Carbon Nanotubes / 8.1: |
Synthesis / 8.2.1: |
Structure and Characterization / 8.2.2: |
Mechanism of Formation / 8.2.3: |
Chemically Modified Carbon Nanotubes / 8.2.4: |
Electronic Structure, Properties and Devices / 8.2.5: |
Inorganic Nanotubes / 8.3: |
Preliminaries / 8.3.1: |
General Synthetic Strategies / 8.3.2: |
Structures / 8.3.3: |
Useful Properties of Inorganic Nanotubes / 8.3.4: |
Nanowires / 8.4: |
Properties of Nanowires / 8.4.1: |
Synthesis, Assembly and Reactivity of Metallic Nanorods / C. J. Murphy ; N. R. Jana ; L. A. Gearheart ; S. O. Obare ; K. K. Caswell ; S. Mann ; C. J. Johnson ; S. A. Davis ; E. Dujardin ; K. J. Edler9: |
Seed-Mediated Growth Approach to the Synthesis of Inorganic Nanorods and Nanowires / 9.1: |
Assembly of Metallic Nanorods: Self-Assembly vs. Designed Chemical Linkages / 9.3: |
Reactivity of Metallic Nanoparticles Depends on Aspect Ratio / 9.4: |
Conclusions and Future Prospects / 9.5: |
Oxide-Assisted Growth of Silicon and Related Nanowires: Growth Mechanism, Structure and Properties / S. T. Lee ; R. Q. Zhang ; Y. Lifshitz10: |
Oxide-Assisted Nanowire Growth / 10.1: |
Discovery of Oxide-Assisted Growth / 10.2.1: |
Oxide-Assisted Nucleation Mechanism / 10.2.2: |
Oxide-Assisted Growth Mechanism / 10.2.3: |
Comparison between Metal Catalyst VLS Growth and OAG / 10.2.4: |
Control of SiNW Nanostructures in OAG / 10.3: |
Morphology Control by Substrate Temperature / 10.3.1: |
Diameter Control of Nanowires / 10.3.2: |
Large-Area Aligned and Long SiNWs via Flow Control / 10.3.3: |
Si Nanoribbons / 10.3.4: |
Nanowires of Si Compounds by Multistep Oxide-Assisted Synthesis / 10.4: |
Nanocables / 10.4.1: |
Metal Silicide/SiNWs from Metal Vapor Vacuum Arc Implantation / 10.4.2: |
Synthesis of Oriented SiC Nanowires / 10.4.3: |
Implementation of OAG to Different Semiconducting Materials / 10.5: |
Chemical Properties of SiNWs / 10.6: |
Stability of H-Terminated SiNW Surfaces / 10.6.1: |
Reduction of Metals in Liquid Solutions / 10.6.2: |
Chemical Sensing of SiNWs / 10.6.3: |
Use of SiNWs as Templates for Nanomaterial Growth / 10.6.4: |
Optical and Electrical Properties of SiNWs / 10.7: |
Raman and PL of SiNWs / 10.7.1: |
Field Emission from Different Si-Based Nanostructures / 10.7.2: |
STM and STS Measurements of SiNWs and B-Doped SiNWs / 10.7.3: |
Periodic Array of SiNW Heterojunctions / 10.7.4: |
Modeling / 10.8: |
High Reactivity of Silicon Suboxide Vapor / 10.8.1: |
Thermal and Chemical Stabilities of Pure Silicon Nanostructured Materials / 10.8.2: |
Thermal and Chemical Stabilities of Hydrogenated Silicon Nanostructures / 10.8.3: |
Summary / 10.9: |
Acknowledgment |
Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystals / S. Sapra ; D. D. SarmaVolume 2: |
Structural Transformations / 11.1: |
Ultraviolet-Visible Absorption Spectroscopy / 11.3: |
Fluorescence Spectroscopy / 11.4: |
Electronic Structure Calculations / 11.5: |
Effective Mass Approximation / 11.5.1: |
Empirical Pseudopotential Method / 11.5.2: |
Tight-Binding Method / 11.5.3: |
Photoemission Studies / 11.6: |
Core Level Photoemission / 11.6.1: |
Valence Band Photoemission / 11.6.2: |
Core-Shell Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Biological Labeling / R. E. Bailey ; S. Nie11.7: |
Optical Properties / 12.1: |
Surface Modification and Bioconjugation / 12.3: |
Applications / 12.5: |
Large Semiconductor Molecules / J. F. Corrigan ; M. W. DeGroot13: |
Nickel Chalcogenides / 13.1: |
Group XI Chalcogenides / 13.3: |
Copper Sulfide and Copper Selenide Nanoclusters / 13.3.1: |
Cu[subscript 2-x]Te and Ag[subscript 2]Te / 13.3.2: |
Ag[subscript 2]S / 13.3.3: |
Ag[subscript 2]Se / 13.3.4: |
Group XII-chalogenides and the Quantum Confinement Effect / 13.4: |
CdS / 13.4.1: |
Ternary MM'E / 13.5: |
Metal Pnictides from E(SiMe[subscript 3])[subscript 3] Reagents / 13.6: |
Conclusions and Outlook / 13.7: |
Oxomolybdates: From Structures to Functions in a New Era of Nanochemistry / S. Roy14: |
Introduction: Similarities between Nanotechnology in Nature and Chemistry? / 14.1: |
Sizes, Shapes, and Complexity of Nano-objects are Determined by the Nature and Variety of the Constituent Building Blocks / 14.2: |
Nanoscaled Clusters with Unusual Form-Function Relationships / 14.3: |
Perspectives for Materials Science and Nanotechnology: En Route to Spherical-Surface, Nanoporous-Cluster, and Super-Supramolecular Chemistry Including the Option of Modelling Cell Response / 14.4: |
Nanostructured Polymers / S. Ramakrishnan15: |
Macromolecular Structural Control / 15.1: |
Living Polymerization / 15.2.1: |
Polymer Conformational Control / 15.3: |
Morphology of Block Copolymers / 15.4: |
Nanostructures Based on Bulk Phase Separation / 15.5: |
Nanostructures Based on Lyotropic Mesophases / 15.6: |
Core-Crosslinked Systems / 15.6.1: |
Shell-Crosslinked Systems / 15.6.2: |
Nanocages / 15.6.3: |
Rod-Coil Diblock Copolymers / 15.7: |
Nanostructures from Polymerized Surfactant Assemblies / 15.8: |
Summary and Outlook / 15.9: |
Recent Developments in the Chemistry and Chemical Applications of Porous Silicon / J. M. Schmeltzer ; J. M. Buriak16: |
Preparation and Characterization of Porous Silicon Substrates / 16.1: |
Surface Chemistry of Porous Silicon Surfaces / 16.3: |
Chemical Applications Based on Porous Silicon / 16.4: |
Bioactive Porous Silicon / 16.4.1: |
Micro Enzyme Reactors ([mu]IMERS) and Total Analysis Systems ([mu]TAS) / 16.4.2: |
Porous Silicon Sensors / 16.4.3: |
Explosive Porous Silicon / 16.4.4: |
Desorption/Ionization on Silicon Mass Spectrometry (DIOS-MS) / 16.4.5: |
Conclusion / 16.5: |
Nanocatalysis / S. Abbet ; U. Heiz17: |
Chemical Reactions on Point Defects of Oxide Surfaces / 17.1: |
Chemical Reactions and Catalytic Processes on Free and Supported Clusters / 17.3: |
Catalytic Processes on Free Metal Clusters / 17.3.1: |
Chemical Reactions and Catalytic Cycles on Supported Clusters / 17.3.2: |
Turn-Over Frequencies of Catalytic Reactions on Supported Clusters / 17.3.3: |
Chemical Reactions Induced by Confined Electrons / 17.4: |
Nanoporous Materials / P. M. Forster17.5: |
Stability of Open-Framework Materials / 18.1: |
Aluminosilicate Zeolites / 18.3: |
Open-Framework Metal Phosphates / 18.4: |
Aluminum Phosphates / 18.4.1: |
Phosphates of Gallium and Indium / 18.4.2: |
Tin(II) Phosphates and Antimony(III) Phosphates / 18.4.3: |
Transition Metal Phosphates / 18.4.4: |
Chalcogenides, Halides, Nitrides and Oxides / 18.5: |
Sulfides and Selenides / 18.5.1: |
Halides / 18.5.2: |
Nitrides / 18.5.3: |
Binary Metal Oxides / 18.5.4: |
Sulfates / 18.5.5: |
Hybrid Nanoporous Materials / 18.6: |
Coordination Polymers / 18.6.1: |
Hybrid Metal Oxides / 18.6.2: |
Photochemistry and Electrochemistry of Nanoassemblies / P. V. Kamat18.7: |
Metal and Semiconductor Nanostructures / 19.1: |
Photoinduced Charge Transfer Processes in Semiconductor Nanoparticle Systems / 19.2: |
Photoinduced Transformations of Metal Nanoparticles / 19.3: |
Transient Bleaching of the Surface Plasmon Band / 19.3.1: |
Laser Induced Fusion and Fragmentation of Metal Nanoclusters / 19.3.2: |
Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer Process between Excited Sensitizer and Metal Nanocore / 19.3.3: |
Electrochemistry of Semiconductor Nanostructures / 19.4: |
Nanostructured Metal Oxide Films / 19.4.1: |
Nanostructured Oxide Films Modified with Dyes and Redox Chromophores / 19.4.2: |
Photocurrent Generation / 19.4.3: |
Electrochemistry of Metal Nanostructures / 19.5: |
Semiconductor-Metal Nanocomposites / 19.6: |
Improving the Efficiency of Photocatalytic Transformations / 19.6.1: |
Fermi Level Equilibration / 19.6.2: |
Acknowledgement / 19.7: |
Outline / S. Devarajan ; S. Sampath20: |
Preparation of Nanostructures / 20.1: |
Electrochemistry with Metallic Nanoparticles / 20.3: |
Monolayer-Protected Nanoclusters / 20.3.1: |
Nanoelectrode Ensembles / 20.3.2: |
Single Electron Events / 20.4: |
Probing Nanoparticles using Electrochemistry Coupled with Spectroscopy / 20.5: |
Nanosensors / 20.6: |
Biosensors / 20.6.1: |
Chemical Sensors / 20.6.2: |
Electrocatalysis / 20.7: |
Summary and Perspectives / 20.8: |
Nanolithography and Nanomanipulation / A. K. Raychaudhuri21: |
Template Fabrication / 21.1: |
Polycarbonate Etched Track Templates / 21.2.1: |
Fabrication of Anodized Alumina Membrane / 21.2.2: |
Anodized Alumina Membrane as a Mask for Physical Vapor Deposition / 21.2.3: |
Templates Made in Block Copolymers / 21.2.4: |
Fabrication of Nanostructures in the Templates / 21.3: |
Electrodeposition / 21.3.1: |
Sol-Gel Method / 21.3.2: |
CVD Method / 21.3.3: |
Scanning Probe Based Anodic Oxidation as a Tool for the Fabrication of Nanostructures / 21.4: |
Oxidation of Metallic Substrates / 21.4.1: |
Oxidation of Semiconducting Substrates / 21.4.2: |
Use of Scanning Probe Microscopy in Dip Pen Nanolithography / 21.5: |
Use of Scanning Probe Microscopy in Nanomanipulation / 21.6: |
Nano-Electromechanical Systems / 21.7: |
Index |