Conductors particulate films

Monolayers prepared from arachidic acid, bovine-brain phosphatidylserine (16), and n-hexadecyl-4- vinylbenzamido)undecyl hydrogen phosphate (4) Size-quantized CdS, ZnS, PbS, and CuS semi-conductor particulate films generated in situ under monolayers... 

Available results on the preparation, characterization, and utilization of metallic and catalytic particles (Sect. 3), semiconductor particles and particulate films (Sect. 4), conductors and superconductors (Sect. 5), magnetism and magnetic particles and particulate films (Sect. 6), and advanced ceramic materials (Sect. 7) will constitute the main body of the monograph. An attempt will be made to cover these materials exhaustively. 

Nanosized TiOi powders are of outstanding importance in this context. Aqueous suspensions of 30 nm particulate TiOi (mostly in the rutile form) are the active agent in many of the photocatalytic systems described by Serpone and Emetine in Chapter 5. Agglomerations of Ti02 nanoparticles into mesoporous films of pore size 2-50 nm which allow the penetration of liquid are the basis of the important dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) discussed by Grateel and Durrant in Chapter 8, as well as most of the hybrid devices described by Nelson and Benson-Smith in Chapter 7, and some of the ETA (Extremely Thin Absorber) cells described by Konenkamp in Chapter 6. The term eta-solar cell was actually introduced by Konenkamp and co-workers (Siebentritt et al., 1997), who had earlier used the term sensitisation cell for the same type of device (Wahi and Konenkamp, 1992). Precursors to ETA cells with liquid electrolytes as hole conductors were developed by Vogel et al. (1990), Ennaoui et al. (1992) and Weller (1993). Similar electrolytic cells with RuSa (Ashokkumar et al, 1994) and InP (Zaban et al, 1998) nanoparticle absorbers have also been demonstrated. 

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