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Hence polysaccharides have been viewed as a potential renewable source of nanosized reinforcement. Being naturally found in a semicrystalline state, aqueous acids can be employed to hydrolyze the amorphous sections of the polymer. As a result the crystalline sections of these polysaccharides are released, resulting in individual monocrystalline nanoparticles [13]. The concept of reinforced polymer materials with polysaccharide nanofillers has known rapid advances leading to development of a new class of materials called Bionanocomposites, which successfully integrates the two concepts of biocomposites and nanometer sized materials. The first part of the chapter deals with the synthesis of polysaccharide nanoparticles and their performance as reinforcing agents in bionanocomposites. 

Electric-field-driven transport in media made of hydrophilic polymers with nanometer-size pores is of much current interest for applications in separation processes. Recent advances in the synthesis of novel media, in experimental methods to study electrophoresis, and in theoretical methodology to study electrophoretic transport lead to the possibility for improvement of our understanding of the fundamentals of macromolecular transport in gels and gel-like media and to the development of new materials and applications for electric-field-driven macromolecular transport. Specific conclusions concerning electrodiffusive transport in polymer hydrogels include the following. 

The zeolite nanocrystals have attracted the considerable attention of many researchers [1-5]. The syntheses of several types of zeolites with different nanometer sizes, such as silicalite-1, ZSM-5, A-type and Y-type, have been reported. Recently, micellar solutions or surfactant-containing solutions have been used for the preparation of zeolite nanoerystals [4,5], We have also successMIy prepared silicalite nanoerystals via hydrothermal synthesis using surfactants. In this study, we demonstrate a method for preparing mono-dispersed silicalite nanoerystals in a solution consisting of surfiictants, organic solvents and water. 

The synthesis of MNCGs can be obtained by sol-gel, sputtering, chemical vapor-deposition techniques. Ion implantation of metal or semiconductor ions into glass has been explored since the last decade as a useful technique to produce nanocomposite materials in which nanometer sized metal or semiconductor particles are embedded in dielectric matrices [1,2,4,23-29]. Furthermore, ion implantation has been used as the first step of combined methodologies that involve other treatments such as thermal annealing in controlled atmosphere, laser, or ion irradiation [30-32]. 

Among various methods to synthesize nanometer-sized particles [1-3], the liquid-phase reduction method as the novel synthesis method of metallic nanoparticles is one of the easiest procedures, since nanoparticles can be directly obtained from various precursor compounds soluble in a solvent [4], It has been reported that the synthesis of Ni nanoparticles with a diameter from 5 to lOnm and an amorphous-like structure by using this method and the promotion effect of Zn addition to Ni nanoparticles on the catalytic activity for 1-octene hydrogenation [4]. However, unsupported particles were found rather unstable because of its high surface activity to cause tremendous aggregation [5]. In order to solve this problem, their selective deposition onto support particles, such as metal oxides, has been investigated, and also their catalytic activities have been studied. 

Iwasaki, M. and Park, W. (2008) Synthesis of nanometer-sized W03 particles by facile wet process and their photocatalytic properties. Journal of Nanomaterials, 169536. 

For other concepts in nanometer size architectures see Fuhrhop J, Penzlin G (1994) Organic synthesis concepts, methods, starting materials, 2nd rev ed. VCH, Weinheim, New York, Basel, Cambridge, Tokyo... 

Abstract The past two decades have profoundly changed the view that we have of elemental carbon. The discovery of the fullerenes, spherically-shaped carbon molecules, has permanently altered the dogma that carbon can only exist in its two stable natural allotropes, graphite and diamond. The preparation of molecular and polymeric acetylenic carbon allotropes, as well as carbon-rich nanometer-sized structures, has opened up new avenues in fundamental and technological research at the interface of chemistry and the materials sciences. This article outlines some fascinating perspectives for the organic synthesis of carbon allotropes and their chemistry. Cyclo[n]carbons are the first rationally designed molecular carbon allotropes, and... 

Tsai, K.-L. and Dye, J.L., Synthesis, properties, and characterization of nanometer-size metal particles by homogeneous reduction with alkalides and electrides in aprotic solvents, Chem. Mater., 5, 540,1993. 

Recently, the efficacy of LDHs as catalyst precursors for the synthesis of carbon nanotubes via catalytic chemical vapor deposition of acetylene has been reported by Duan et al. [72]. Nanometer-sized cobalt particles were prepared by calcination and subsequent reduction of a single LDH precursor containing cobalt(II) and aluminum ions homogeneously dispersed at the atomic level. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes with uniform diameters were obtained. 

By covalent linkage of different types of molecules it is possible to obtain materials with novel properties that are different from those of the parent compounds. Examples of such materials are block-copolymers, soaps, or lipids which can self-assemble into periodic geometries with long-range order. Due to their amphiphilic character, these molecules tend to micellize and to phase-separate on the nanometer scale. By this self-assembly process the fabrication of new na-noscopic devices is possible, such as the micellization of diblock-co-polymers for the organization of nanometer-sized particles of metals or semiconductors [72 - 74]. The micelle formation is a dynamic process, which depends on a number of factors like solvent, temperature, and concentration. Synthesis of micelles which are independent of all of these factors via appropriately functionalized dendrimers which form unimolecular micelles is a straightforward strategy. In... 

Wang Y, Herron N (1991) Nanometer-sized semiconductor clusters material synthesis, quantum size effects, and photophysical properties. J Phys Chem 95 525-532 Ward MH, Cantor KP, Riley D, Merkle S, Lynch CF (2003) Nitrate in public water supplies and risk of bladder cancer. Epidemiology 14 183-190 Ward MH, Mark SD, Cantor KP, Weisenburger DD, Correa-VUlasenore A, Zahm SH (1996) Drinking water and the risk of non-Hodgkin s lymphoma. Epidemiology 7 465 71 Warheit DB (2004) Nanoparticles health impacts Mater Today 7 32-35... 

Wang Y, Herron N (1991) Nanometer-sized semiconductor cluster. Materials synthesis, quantum size effects and photophysical properties. J Phys Chem 99 525-532... 

Fig. 3 Synthesis of nanometer-sized hoUow polymer capsules from polymer-coated Au-particles...

When we consider the metals of nanoscopic size, fine metal particles from micrometer to nanometer size can be synthesized by both physical and chemical methods. The former method provides the fine metal particles by decreasing the size by addition of energy to the bulk metal, while in the latter methods, fine particles can be produced by increasing the size from metal atoms obtained by reduction of metal ions in solution. Since chemical reactions usually take place in homogeneous solution in any case, this chapter includes most of the cases of synthesis and growth of fine metal particles. However, the polyol process, reaction in microemulsions, and formation in the gas phase are omitted, since they are described in later chapters by specialists in those fields. 

Dendrimers are a special class of arborescent monodisperse nanometer sized molecules that have been used in the synthesis of Au NPs as surface stabilizers or nanoreactor/templates for nanoparticle growth. Moreover, these hybrid nanomaterials have great potential for application in different fields such as sensors, imaging in cells, electrooptical devices, catalysis, drug delivery agents, and so on. 

Synthesis of Nanometer-sized Mesoporous Silica and Alumina Spheres... 

In this paper, we report the synthesis of mesoporous silica and alumina spheres with nanometer size (80 to 900 nm) in the present of organic solvent with aqueous ammonia as the morphological catalyst to control the hydrolysis of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and aluminum tri-sec-butoxide.1181 Mesoporous silica spheres show hexagonal arranged pores with monodispersed pore sizes ( 2.4 nm) and high surface areas ( 1020 m2/g) similar to MCM-41. A large pore ( 10 nm) mesoporous alumina sphere templated by triblock copolymer is thermally stable. Calcined alumina sphere shows disordered mesoporous arrays with relatively uniformed pore size distribution and high surface areas ( 360 m2/g). 

Ten years have passed since the first edition of this book appeared. Most of the new citations refer to newly developed stereoselective reactions a stunning macrolide synthesis by S.L. Schreiber (p. 324ff.) demonstrates successful applications of the new methods. The most surprising, even dramatic, development, however, has occurred in the field of new organic materials and machineries. This is exemplified with a few outstanding examples in a new chapter called Nanometer Size Architecture . 

Deng, X., Mayeux, A. and Cai, C. (2002) An efficient convergent synthesis of novel anisotropic adsorbates based on nanometer-sized and tripod-shaped oligophenylenes end-capped with triallylsilyl groups. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 67, 5279-83. 

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