Complex-Shaped Metal Nanoparticles ─ Bottom-Up Syntheses and Applications

Contributors from the physical sciences offer tutorial reviews on the various techniques for preparing and characterizing metal nanoparticles of different morphologies and architectures; the details of the basic principles involved in such techniques; and why, how, and where these novel nanomaterials are being used. Among the topics are the colloidal synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles of complex morphologies, experiment and history in structural aspects of anisotropic metal nanoparticle growth, a soft chemistry approach to controlling the shape of platinum and palladium nanocrystals from individual particles to their self-assembled superlattices, localized surface plasmons of multifaceted metal nanoparticles, surface-enhanced Raman scattering using complex-shaped metal nanostructures, and metal nanoparticles in biomedical applications. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tapan K. Sau is an associate professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. After his PhD in chemistry, obtained from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, he had worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina-Columbia and Clarkson University, USA, and as an assistant professor at the Panjab University in Chandigarh, India. From 2007 to 2009 he was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen, Germany. His research interests are in synthesis, spectroscopy and applications of colloidal metal nanocrystals. He has authored over 50 publications including patents and book chapters.

Andrey L. Rogach is chair professor at the Department of Physics and Materials Science of City University of Hong Kong. After his PhD in chemistry, obtained from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, he had worked as a research scientist at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1995-2002), and as a lead staff scientist at the Photonics and Optoelectronics group of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munich, Germany (2002-2009), where he completed his habilitation in experimental physics. His research is focused on synthesis, assembly, optical spectroscopy and applications of colloidal semiconductor and metal nanocrystals, which has been extensively (over 12,000) times cited.