Anisotropic Nanomaterials: Preparation, Properties, and Applications

✍ Scribed by Quan Li (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 513
• Series: NanoScience and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book anisotropic one-dimensional and two-dimensional nanoscale building blocks and their assembly into fascinating and qualitatively new functional structures embracing both hard and soft components are explained. Contributions from leading experts regarding important aspects like synthesis, assembly, properties and applications of the above materials are compiled into a reference book. The anisotropy, i.e. the direction-dependent physical properties, of materials is fascinating and elegant and has sparked the quest for anisotropic materials with useful properties. With such a curiosity, material scientists have ventured into the realm of nanometer length scale and have explored the anisotropic nanoscale building blocks such as metallic and nonmetallic particles as well as organic molecular aggregates. It turns out that the anisotropic nanoscale building blocks, in addition to direction-dependent properties, exhibit dimension and morphology dependence of physical properties. Moreover, ordered arrays of anisotropic nanoscale building blocks furnish novel properties into the resulting system which would be entirely different from the properties of individual ones. Undoubtedly, these promising properties have qualified them as enabling building blocks of 21st century materials science, nanoscience and nanotechnology. Readers will find this book professionally valuable and intellectually stimulating in the rapidly emerging area of anisotropic nanomaterials.

Quan Li, Ph.D., is Director of the Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. He has directed research
projects funded by US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), US Army Research Office (ARO), US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (DoD MURI), US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Energy (DOE), US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ohio Third Frontier, and Samsung Electronics, among others.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Silicon Nanowires: Fabrication and Applications....Pages 1-25
Methods and Structures for Self-assembly of Anisotropic 1D Nanocrystals....Pages 27-68
Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles: Preparation, Properties, and Applications....Pages 69-118
Synthesis and Application of Solution-Based II–VI and IV–VI Semiconductor Nanowires....Pages 119-156
Rare Earth Based Anisotropic Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Assembly, and Applications....Pages 157-208
Liquid Crystalline Anisotropic Nanoparticles: From Metallic and Semiconducting Nanoparticles to Carbon Nanomaterials....Pages 209-240
Self-assembled 1D Semiconductors: Liquid Crystalline Columnar Phase....Pages 241-287
Directed Assembly and Self-organization of Metal Nanoparticles in Two and Three Dimensions....Pages 289-336
Self-Organized 3D Photonic Superstructure: Blue Phase Liquid Crystal....Pages 337-378
Interfacial Interactions in 1D and 2D Nanostructure-Based Material Systems....Pages 379-424
Mesoporous Carbon for Energy....Pages 425-445
Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Design, Fabrication, and Applications of Ultra-Anisotropic Nanomaterials....Pages 447-467
Printed Anisotropic Molecular Alignments....Pages 469-494
Back Matter....Pages 495-500

✦ Subjects

Nanoscale Science and Technology; Nanotechnology; Nanochemistry; Optical and Electronic Materials