Metal Nanoparticles and Clusters Advances in Synthesis, Properties and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Deepak, Francis Leonard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Metals.; Nanotechnology.; Nanochemistry.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Metallic Materials.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

This book covers the continually expanding field of metal nanoparticles and clusters, in particular their size-dependent properties and quantum phenomena. The approaches to the organization of atoms that form clusters and nanoparticles have been advancing rapidly in recent times. These advancements...

Table of Contents:

• From Nano- to Angstrom- technology: Introduction to Metal Nanoparticles and Clusters
• Recent Developments in the Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals
• Structure of Metal Nanoparticles
• Spectroscopic and computational studies of metal nanoparticles and clusters
• Surface enhanced spectroscopies: Optical Techniques and Plasmonic Nanostructures
• Surface Plasmons in Quantum-sized noble-metal clusters-Theoretical Aspects
• Nanoparticles in supported and colloidal catalysis
• Catalytic efficiency of metallic nanoparticles-Theoretical Aspects
• Advanced electron microscopy of nanoalloys
• Imaging clusters under an electron microscope
• Thermodynamics of Metal Nanoparticles
• Gold and silver fluorescent nanoclusters as an emerging probe for chemical and biological sensors
• Plasmonic and NIR light sensitive nanomaterials for photothermal cancer therapy.