Nanomaterials and Nanodispersions

Although many areas of nanotechnology do not directly deal with colloidal dispersions (such as nanoelectronic devices [70]), other areas do, such as the use of colloidal ink dispersions in robocasting to build near-nanometre scale of three-dimensional structures. The possible use of nanoemulsions in nanoencapsulation for intravenous delivery and in medical diagnostics has already been mentioned in Sections 14.4 and 14.5. Nanoencapsulation by means other than just emulsification continues to be developed. Some other application areas include the following  

Due to their extremely small size and correspondingly large surface areas, nanoparticle suspensions have potential applications in such areas as 

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