Electron beams are capable of providing crystallographic information about nanoparticle surfaces and can also be used to produce images of the surface, and they play this role in electron microscopes.
In a transmission electron … Read More
Pulsed lasers can be used in the synthesis of nanoparticles of silver. Silver nitrate solution and a reducing agent are flowed through a blender like device. In the blender there is a solid disk, which rotates in the solution. The … Read More
Nanoparticles can be produced by decomposing solids at high temperature having metal cations, and molecular anions or metal organic compounds. This procedure is termed to as Thermolysis. For instance, small lithium particles can be made by decomposing lithium azide, LiN… Read More
The lithographic methods used to make silicon chips for computers are approaching their limits in reducing the sizes of circuitry on chips. Nanosize architecture is becoming more cumbersome and more costly to make. This has motivated an effort to synthesize … Read More
While I have indicated “semiconducting nanoparticles” in the title, nanoparticles made of silicon, germanium or cadmium are not themselves semiconductors. A nanoparticle of Sin can be made by laser evaporation of a Si substrate in the region of a … Read More
