Metal Nanoparticles. Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications
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Author(s): D. L. Feldheim and C. A. Foss Jr
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
ISBN:  0824706048
Format: hardback
  338pp
Price: $150.00
Review Date: January 07, 2002
Review: It is only within the last few years that a fundamental understanding of nanoparticle structural, optical and electronic properties has been established. This textbook aims to provide an up-to-date synthesis and characterisation of nanoparticle optical and electronic properties for both specialists and nonspecialists. Metal particles are particularly interesting nanoscale systems because they can easily be synthesised and modified chemically. Their optical and electronic effects can be understood fairly easily as they resemble those of the bulk metal to exceedingly small dimensions (less than 5 nanometres). Chapters cover a broad sampling of research on the synthesis, characterisation and applications of nanoparticle structural, optical and electronic properties, with emphasis on how size, shape and surface chemistry affect particle performance.