Nanodroplets

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Generation of Nanodroplets and Its Applications

   • Motoaki Adachi, Takuya Kinoshita

   Pages 1-24

3. Nanodroplet Formations in Electrospun Fibers of Immiscible Polymer Blends and Their Effects on Fractionated Crystallization

   • Ganji Zhong, Lei Zhu, Hao Fong

   Pages 25-50

4. Dynamic Study of Nanodroplet Nucleation and Growth Using Transmitted Electrons in ESEM

   • Zahava Barkay

   Pages 51-72

5. Self-Assembly of Nanodroplets in Nanocomposite Materials in Nanodroplets Science and Technology

   • D. Keith Roper

   Pages 73-97

6. Ordering of Ga Nanodroplets by Low-Energy Ion Sputtering

   • Sabina Koukourinkova, Zhiming M. Wang, Jiang Wu, Xingliang Xu, Mourad Benamara, Peter Moeck et al.

   Pages 99-114

7. Atomistic Mechanisms Underlying the Freezing Behavior of Metal Nanodroplets

   • Francesco Delogu

   Pages 115-141

8. Dynamics of Nanodroplets on Structured Surfaces

   • Markus Rauscher

   Pages 143-167

9. Atomistic Simulation of Nanodroplet Collisions with a Wall: Fragmentation and Impact Desolvation of Macromolecules

   • Herbert M. Urbassek, Si Neng Sun

   Pages 169-193

10. Polymer Films with Nanosized Liquid-Crystal Droplets: Extinction, Polarization, Phase, and Light Focusing

    • Valery A. Loiko

    Pages 195-235

11. Clusters and Nanoparticles in Superfluid Helium Droplets: Fundamentals, Challenges and Perspectives

    • Shengfu Yang, Andrew M. Ellis

    Pages 237-264

12. Reactive Dynamics in Confined Water by Reversed Micelles

    • Minako Kondo, Ismael A. Heisler, Stephen R. Meech

    Pages 265-288

13. Brownian Deposition of Nanodroplets and Nanofiber Growth via “Vapor–Liquid–Solid” Route

    • Sergey P. Fisenko, Dmitry A. Takopulo

    Pages 289-299

14. Water Nanodroplets: Molecular Drag and Self-assembly

    • J. Russell, B. Wang, N. Patra, P. Král

    Pages 301-327

15. Atomistic Pseudopotential Theory of Droplet Epitaxial GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dots

    • Jun-Wei Luo, Gabriel Bester, Alex Zunger

    Pages 329-361

16. Local Droplet Etching: Self-assembled Nanoholes for Quantum Dots and Nanopillars

    • Christian Heyn, David Sonnenberg, Wolfgang Hansen

    Pages 363-384

17. Back Matter

    Pages 385-388

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Nanodroplets, the basis of complex and advanced nanostructures such as quantum rings, quantum dots and quantum dot clusters for future electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices, have attracted the interdisciplinary interest of chemists, physicists and engineers. This book combines experimental and theoretical analyses of nanosized droplets which reveal many attractive properties. Coverage includes nanodroplet synthesis, structure, unique behaviors and their nanofabrication, including chapters on focused ion beam, atomic force microscopy, molecular beam epitaxy and the "vapor-liquid- solid" route. Particular emphasis is given to the behavior of metallic nanodroplets, water nanodroplets and nanodroplets in polymer and metamaterial nanocomposites. The contributions of leading scientists and their research groups will provide readers with deeper insight into the chemical and physical mechanisms, properties, and potential applications of various nanodroplets.

• AFM Ultrasmall Droplet Deposition Techniques
• Brownian Deposition of Nanodroplets and Nanofibre Growth
• Epitaxial GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dots
• Highly Ordered Ga Nanodroplets
• Local Droplet Etching
• MBE Growth Fine GaN-based SLs
• Metal Nanodroplets, Atomistic Mechanisms
• Nanodroplet Collisions
• Nanodroplet Generation
• Nanodroplet Nucleation
• Nanodroplets
• Nanodroplets Book
• Nanofabrication
• Nanosized Liquid Crystal Droplets
• Noble Metals in Plasmonic Metamaterials, Dielectric Function
• Ordered Nanostructures
• Plasmonic Nanodroplets Templated Self-assembly
• Quantum Dots
• Reversed Micelles

• State Key Laboratory of Electronic, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

  Zhiming M. Wang

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