Aerosol-based Technologies in Nanoscale Manufacturing: from Functional Materials to Devices through Core Chemical Engineering

摘要

Manufacturing of nanoscale materials and devices offers a number of exciting opportunities for chemical engineers to contribute substantially in product development, process scale-up, and environmental compliance. Current research in nanoscale science and engineering has been directed primarily toward the design and synthesis of (a) materials with passive nanostructures (e.g., nanostructured coatings, dispersion of nanoparticles, as well as bulk nanostructured metals, polymers and ceramics), and (b) active devices with nanostructured materials (e.g., transistors, amplifiers, targeted drugs and delivery systems, sensors, actuators and adaptive structures).