Nanostructured advanced materials. Perspectives and directions*
Joshua Jortner1, and C. N. R. Rao2,**
1School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv,
69978 Tel Aviv, Israel; 2Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal
Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bangalore,
560064 India
Abstract: A focus of frontline interdisciplinary research today
is the development of the conceptual framework and the experimental
background of the science of nanostructured materials and the perspectives
of its technological applications. We consider some current directions
in the preparation, characterization, manipulation, and interrogation
of nanomaterials, in conjunction with the modeling of the unique structuredynamicsfunction
relations of nanostructures and their assemblies. The implications of
quantum size and shape effects on the energetics, nuclearelectronic
level structure, electric-optical response and dynamics, reveal new
unique physical phenomena that qualitatively differ from those of the
bulk matter and provide avenues for the control of the function of nanostructures.
Current applications in the realm of nanoelectronics, nanooptoelectronics,
and information nanoprocessing are addressed, and other directions highlighted.
Chemical sciences make a central contribution to this novel and exciting
scientifictechnological area.
* Special Topic Issue on the Theme
of Nanostructured Advanced Materials
**Corresponding author
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