Nanoparticles Workhorses of Nanoscience /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Mello Donegá, Celso (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanotechnology.; Materials Science.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Optical and Electronic Materials.

This book can be roughly divided into three parts: fundamental physico-chemical and physical principles of Nanoscience, chemistry and synthesis of nanoparticles, and techniques to study nanoparticles.  The first chapter is concerned with the origin of the size dependence of the properties of nanomat...

Table of Contents:

• The Nanoscience Paradigm: “Size Matters!”
• Size effects on semiconductor nanoparticles
• Metal nanoparticles for microscopy and spectroscopy
• Nanoporous materials and confined liquids
• Supported nanoparticles
• The challenge of colloidal nanoparticle synthesis
• Electron microscopy techniques
• Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy
• Electron paramagnetic resonance based spectroscopic techniques
• Solution NMR toolbox for colloidal nanoparticles.