Basic Properties of Nanomaterials
Nanotechnology, the study of materials and phenomena at the sub-100-nm scale, is an established multidisciplinary field of science with emerging real-world impacts. Applications of nanotechnology are plentiful, including (but not limited to) drug delivery, energy storage, energy harvesting, optics, electronics, optoelectronics, catalysis, tissue engineering, structural materials, and sensing. Chapter 1 provides a brief history and overview of the field of nanotechnology, while also summarizing important property changes observed in nanoscale materials as compared to their bulk counterparts.
Keywords
Nanoscale properties; physical principles of nanomaterials; quantum effects
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