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Table 1.3 Performance comparison of thin-film nanoparticle membrane, QuantumFlwL, with conventional thin-fihn composite membranes.

Figure C2.17.3. Close-packed array of sub-micrometre silica nanoparticles. Wlren nanoparticles are very monodisperse, they will spontaneously arrange into hexagonal close-packed stmcture. This scanning electron micrograph shows an example of this for very monodisperse silica nanoparticles of -250 nm diameter, prepared in a thin-film fonnat following the teclmiques outlined in [236].

Microencapsulation is the coating of small solid particles, liquid droplets, or gas bubbles with a thin film of coating or shell material. In this article, the term microcapsule is used to describe particles with diameters between 1 and 1000 p.m. Particles smaller than 1 p.m are called nanoparticles particles greater than 1000 p.m can be called microgranules or macrocapsules. 

Scientists also have learned how to mimic the surface of a butterfly wing. Polystyrene beads and smaller silica nanoparticles are suspended in water and mixed thoroughly using ultrasound. When a glass slide is dipped into the suspension and slowly withdrawn, a thin film forms on the glass surface. This film is a regular array of beads encased in a matrix of nanoparticles. Heating the film destroys the polystyrene beads but leaves the silica web intact. The result is a silica inverse opal film. 

Another thin film technology based nanoparticle preparation route is gas condensation, in which metal vapor is cooled to high levels of supersaturation in an inert gas ambient [126-128]. In these experiments particles necessarily nucleate in the gas phase. In a promising extension of this technique a pulsed laser beam replaces the conventionally used thermal metal vapor source [120,121,129-134]. 

Nanoparticle Formation by Ion Etching of Island Thin Films... 

Nanoparticle Thin-Film Deposition on MEMS Devices... 

Liu, J.C., Anand, M. and Roberts, C.B. (2006) Synthesis and extraction of beta-D-glucose-stabilized Au nanoparticles processed into low-defect, wide-area thin-films and ordered arrays using CO2-expanded liquids. Langmuir, 22 (9), 3964-3971. 

Bis(alkyldithio-/selenocarbamates) of Zn(ID and Cd(II) have previously been used in many applications including the rubber industry 1 and in analysis,382 as well as for single-molecular precursors in the growth of II VI thin films by CVD, as described earlier.181,383 They have also been shown to be good precursors for the preparation of II VI nanoparticles, in a process that involves their decomposition in a high-boiling donor solvent such as tri-n-octylphosphine oxide or 4-ethylpyridine (Figure 47). 

The covalent nature of III-V materials causes problems for preparation of highly crystalline nanoparticles and thin films. A single-molecular precursor approach was employed to produce III-V nanoparticles of InP and GaP using the indium/gallium diorganophosphide compounds... 

Several types of palladium-based hydrogen sensors have been reported in the literature. The most notable ones are based on Pd thin-film resistors, FETs, Pd nanowires, Pd nanoparticle networks, Pd nanoclusters, and Pd nanotubes as shown in Table 15.2. 

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