The Role of Manosized Particles. A Frontier in Modern Materials Science, from Nanoelectrnice to Environmental Problems

摘要

Small metal and semiconductor particles with asize of a few nanometers are one of the important systems inmodern materials science. Nanoparitcles have foundapplications in many fields, ranging from catalysis to magneticstorage. In the present work, we discuss some of the methods tocharacterize the structure of nanoparticles using electronmicroscopy. We also discuss some of the exciting novelapplications of nanoparticles in nanolelctrainices andnanophotonics. Finally, we show that nanoparticles play animportant role in producing atmospheric pollutants.