Nanoclusters & Nanocrystals

Nanoclusters and Nanocrystals provides coverage on various aspects of nanoclusters and nanocrystals. This book covers topics on recent synthetic strategies to fabricate metallic or semiconducting nanoscale clusters and crystals, nanocrystalline films, control of size and shape of clusters and crystals, growth mechanism, spectroscopic characterization, amorphous and crystalline structures, physical properties and potential industrial applications in transducers and photocatalysis.Most up-to-date reference work summarizing research on nanoclusters and nanocrystals. Contains 9 state-of-the-art chapters written by research experts. About 2,000 bibliographic citations and thousands of illustrations, figures, tables, chemical structures and equations An essential resource for scientists, researchers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, college and university professors, working in the field of electrical and electronic engineering, materials science, solid-state physics, nanotechnology, crystal engineering, cluster science, computational engineering, device applications, etc.