Nanoparticles

• Main Author: Jelinek, Raz (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, ©2015.
• Series: De Gruyter graduate.
• Subjects: Nanotechnology.; Nanostructured materials.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 3110330032; 9783110330038; 9783110389913; 3110389916; 9781523104635; 1523104635; 9783110330021; 3110330024
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 283 pages .)

Nanoparticles presents the variety of nanoparticle families, structures, and functions. The book discusses nanoparticles made of semiconductors, metals, metal-oxides, organics, biological and hybrid constituents. Through a wealth of examples and case studies, readers that are not necessarily active...

Table of Contents:

• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 Historical context and early work
• 2. Semiconductor nanoparticles
• 2.1 Metal chalcogenide nanoparticles
• 2.1.1 Quantum dots in biology
• 2.1.2 Quantum dots in solar cells
• 2.2 Semiconductor nanowires
• 2.3 Photonic applications of quantum dots and quantum wires 2.4 III-V semiconductor nanoparticles
• 2.5 Other binary semiconductor nanoparticle morphologies
• 2.6 Silicon and germanium nanoparticles
• 3. Metal nanoparticles
• 3.1 Gold nanoparticles
• 3.1.1 Spherical gold nanoparticles 3.1.2 Applications of gold nanoparticles in sensing
• 3.1.3 Gold nanoparticles coupled to biomolecules
• 3.1.4 Gold nanoparticles in catalysis
• 3.1.5 Other applications of gold nanoparticles
• 3.1.6 Gold nanorods
• 3.1.7 Gold nanowires
• 3.1.8 Other morphologies of gold nanoparticles 3.2 Silver nanoparticles
• 3.3 Other noble metal and transition metal nanoparticles
• 3.4 Hybrid metal nanoparticles
• 3.4.1 Alloy nanoparticles
• 3.4.2 Core-shell metal NPs
• 3.4.3 Janus nanoparticles
• 4. Metal oxide nanoparticles 4.1 Iron oxide nanoparticles
• 4.2 Titanium oxide nanoparticles
• 4.3 Zinc oxide nanoparticles
• 4.4 Silicon oxide nanoparticles
• 4.5 Rare earth oxide nanoparticles
• 4.6 Other metal oxide nanoparticles