Overview
- Describes new synthetic approaches to metal clusters including using electrochemical techniques and bio-templates
- Showcases recent properties and applications of nanoparticles and clusters, such as biomedical imaging, catalysis, nanomedicine, and plasmonics
- Discusses colloidal catalysis and the emerging field of single atom catalysis
- Examines complementary techniques that can be used to depict the structure and properties of nanoparticles and clusters
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
​This book covers the continually expanding field of metal nanoparticles and clusters, in particular their size-dependent properties and quantum phenomena. The approaches to the organization of atoms that form clusters and nanoparticles have been advancing rapidly in recent times. These advancements are described through a combination of experimental and computational approaches and are covered in detail by the authors. Recent highlights of the various emerging properties and applications ranging from plasmonics to catalysis are showcased.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Francis Leonard Deepak is a Group Leader in the Department of Advanced Electron Microscopy, Imaging and Spectroscopy at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal. He received his PhD at the Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. His broad area of research is focused on the use of advanced electron microscopic techniques for the study of materials/nanomaterials for various applications, as well as in the study of fundamental physical phenomena and dynamics at the nanoscale.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metal Nanoparticles and Clusters
Book Subtitle: Advances in Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Editors: Francis Leonard Deepak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68053-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68052-1Published: 29 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88538-4Published: 01 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68053-8Published: 17 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 426
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 169 illustrations in colour
Topics: Metallic Materials, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Nanochemistry, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices