Emil Roduner

Nanoscopic Materials (eBook, ePUB)

Size-Dependent Phenomena and Growth Principles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years there have been great advances in the development of new nanomaterials. To facilitate the progress of new materials it is essential to understand the underlying principles at the nanoscale.

Nanoscopic Materials provides an accessible overview of the physico-chemical and physical principles of nanomaterials including electronic structure, magnetic properties, thermodynamics of size dependence and phase transitions and dynamics of clusters and two-dimensional systems. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent developments in new nanomaterials including graphene and core-shell structures, properties of nano-structured and intelligent surfaces as well as applications in catalysis and energy. Additional chapters cover the development of nucleation and crystal shape engineering; self-assembly and biomimetics for fabricating nanostructures.

With helpful illustrations and summaries of key points in every chapter, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students of chemistry and materials science and researchers new to the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RSC
• Seitenzahl: 457
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782624943
• Artikelnr.: 44762127

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
1.1: Clusters and nanoparticles
1.2: Feynman's vision
2: Bulk and interface
2.1: Gradients near surfaces
2.2: The coordination number rules the game
2.3: Surface science, a source of information
for nanoscience 2.4: Particle size and microstrain
2.5: Biomimetics: nature as a source of inspiration for strategies in nanotechnology
3: Geometric structure, magic numbers, and coordination numbers of small clusters
3.1: The consequences of the range of the radial potential energy function
3.2: Magic numbers by geometric shells closing
3.3: Magic numbers by electronic shells closing
3.4: Cohesive energy and coordination number
4: Electronic structure
4.1: Discrete states versus band structure
4.2: The effects of dimensionality and symmetry in quantum structures
4.3: The nonmetal-to-metal transition
4.4: Work function, ionisation potential and electron affinity
4.5: Electronic structure of semiconductor and metal clusters
4.6: A semiconductor quantum dot electronic device
5: Magnetic properties
5.1: A brief primer on magnetism
5.2: The concept of frustration
5.3: Magnetic properties of small clusters
5.4: Ferromagnetic order in thin films and monoatomic chains
5.5: Finite size effects in magnetic resonance detection
6: Thermodynamics for finite size systems
6.1: Limitations of macroscopic thermodynamics
6.2: The basics of capillarity
6.3: Phase transitions of free liquid droplets
6.4: The Lotus effect
6.5: Classical nucleation theory
6.6: Shape control of nanocrystals
6.7: Size effects on ion conduction in solids
6.8: Principles of self-assembly
7: Adsorption, phase behaviour and dynamics of surface layers and in pores
7.1: Surface adsorption and pore condensation
7.2: Adsorption hysteresis and pore criticality
7.3: The melting point of pore-confined matter
7.4: Layering transitions
7.5: Liquid coexistence and ionic solutions in pores
7.6: The effect of pressure
7.7: Dynamics in pores
8: Phase transitions and dynamics of clusters
8.1: Melting point and melting enthalpy
8.2: Dynamics of metal clusters
9: Phase transitions of two-dimensional systems
9.1: Melting of thin layers
9.2: Structural phase transitions in thin layers
9.3: Glass transition of a polymer thin film
9.4: Surface alloy phases
10: Catalysis by metallic nanoparticles
10.1: Some general principles of catalysis by nanoparticles
10.2: Size-controlled catalytic clusters
10.3: Shape dependent catalytic activity
10.4: The effect of strain
10.5: The effect of alloying
10.6: Metal-support interaction
10.7: The influence of external bias voltage
11: Applications: facts and fictions
11.1: Nanomaterials
11.2: Nanotechnology
11.3: Hopes, hazards and hype