Metal nanoparticles ordered growth

Figure 11.8 Formation of ordered nanoparticles of metal from diblock copolymer micelles, (a) Diblock copolymer (b) metal salt partition to centres of the polymer micelles (c) deposition of micelles at a surface (d) micelle removal and reduction of oxide to metal, (e) AFM image of carbon nanotubes and cobalt catalyst nanoparticles after growth (height scale, 5 nm scan size, lxl pm). [Part (e) reproduced from Ref. 47].

Figure 13.6 (a-c) Reprinted with permission from Erenkel, A.I., Hills, C.W., and Nuzzo, R.G. (2001) A View from the Inside Complexity in the Atomic Ordering of Supported Metal Nanoparticles J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 12689. Copyright 2001 American Chemical Society. Figure 13.6d Ramachandran, D., Basu, J. CBC. Figure 13.9 Reprinted from Li, Y., Bando, Y., and Golberg, D. (2004) Indium-assisted growth of aligned ultra-long silica nanotubes, Adv. Mater. 16, 37. With permission from Wiley-VCH Verlag.

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