Polymer Films with Embedded Metal Nanoparticles Reviews

October 18, 2010 by AboutNanoWires.com · Leave a Comment

Polymer Films with Embedded Metal Nanoparticles

This book gives an overview of nanostructure determination and ways to find relationships to the electronic and optical properties. The methods described can be applied to a large number of other granular metal-insulator systems and can also be used as a guideline for characterisation and modelling. The optical modelling techniques can be transferred straightforwardly to other materials. In addition, the book describes the manufacture of artificially structured nanomaterials with laser or electron-beam irradiation. This frontier research area will contribute to further decreasing the size parameter in microelectronics.

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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY “Nanostructure – property relationshipments in metal – polymer nano-composites are the timely subject of this book. The breadth of this field required the author to narrow the topic to metal nanoparticles embedded in polymer thin films dposited by vacuum processes, thus allowing for ample discussion and details on their formation, nanostructure, and properties. Throughout each chapter, experimental procedures and data are presented, including schematics for equipment, sample preparation, transmission electron micrographs, and graphical analysis of particle size and shape . . . Although the book focuses only on nanocomposites produced by plasma processes, the methods for characterizing them and for studying their properties are applicable to other nanomaterials. Hence, this book will be useful to those new to the field of nanocomposites as well as to specialists in plasma-deposited films.”