The development of strategies for nanoparticle synthesis: Considerations for deepening understanding of inherently complex systems

摘要

The last fifty years of solid-state chemistry have produced a wealth of compounds with complex structures, exciting properties, and from those discoveries, an explosion of new technologies. We continue to strive to understand structure-property relationships as well as develop expedient methods to discover and control new materials. Nanoparticle synthesis is one area of synthetic solid-state chemistry that is currently experiencing a significant growth of deepening understanding and increasing sophistication. Herein, we review examples from the literature where insight about a synthesis can be built from to catalyze new discoveries. The focus is on synthetic reports of nanoparticles of increasing complexity.