Handbook of Synthetic Methodologies and Protocols of Nanomaterials

V. 1. Solution phase synthesis of nanomaterials (Yadong Yin and Yu Lu). Synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals through thermolysis of precursors (Raúl García-Rodríguez and Haitao Liu) ; Solvothermal synthesis of nanomaterials (Haoyi Li and Xun Wang) ; Lithium (3Li) (Jianwu Wen) ; Carbon (4C) (Ji Feng) ; Magnesium (12Mg) (Aiqin Gao) ; Alumium (13Al) (Pingping Wei and Na Li) ; Silicon (14Si) (Juan Li) ; Phosphorus (15P) (Xin Wang) ; Sulfur (16S) (Jing Yan) ; Potassium (19K) (Xiaxi Yao) ; Calcium (20Ca) (Xiaojing Wang) ; Scandium (21Sc) (Qinqin Liu and Ji Feng) ; Titanium (22Ti) (Zhenda Lu and Hongbo Li) ; Vanadium (23V) (Luntao Liu and Wenshou Wang) ; Chromium (24Cr) (Jian Zhang) ; Manganese (25Mn) (Guocheng Lv, Ji Feng and Mingfu Gong) ; Iron (26Fe) (Mingfu Gong and Yu Lu) ; Cobalt (27Co) (Yu Lu and Fenglei Lyu) ; Nickel (28Ni) (Panpan Xu, Lan Peng, Jian Liu, Wenwen Yin and Shuai Zhou) ; Copper (29Cu) (Yongqiang Wang) ; Zinc (30Zn) (Qingsong Fan, Chaolumen Wu and Ji Feng) ; Gallium (31Ga) (Rashed Aleisa) ; Germanium (32Ge) (Yaocai Bai) ; Selenium (34Se) (Yaocai Bai and Jianwu Wen) ; Yttrium (39Y) (Jianping Ge, Pingping Wei and Na Li) ; Zirconium (40Zr) (Haibo He) ; Niobium (41Nb) (Xiong Yin) ; Molybdenum (42Mo) (Mingyang Xing and Wenjing Xu) ; Ruthenium (44Ru) (Fenglei Lyu) ; Rhodium (45Rh) (Yun Liu) ; Palladium (46Pd) (Fan Yang) ; Silver (47Ag) (Qiao Zhang and Hongxia Yu) ; Cadmiun (48Cd) (Qipeng Lu) ; Indium (49In) (Jie Han) ; Tin (50Sn) (Jinxing Chen and Dawei Ding) ; Tellurium (52Te) (Yaocai Bai) ; Barium (56Ba) (Hongyan Liu) ; Lanthanum (57La) (Zhiwei Li) ; Cerium (58Ce) (Zhiwei Li) ; Praseodmium (59Pr) (Zhiwei Li) ; Neodymium (60Nd) (Zhiwei Li) ; Samarium (62Sm) (Zhiwei Li) ; Europium (63Eu) (Zhiwei Li) ; Gadolinium (64Gd) (Zhiwei Li) ; Terbium (65Tb) (Ye Luo and Junxiang Fu) ; Dysprosium (66Dy) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Holmium (67Ho) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Erbium (68Er) (Qiliang Xie, Ye Luo and Junxiang Fu) ; Thulium (69Tm) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Ytterbium (70Yb) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Lutetium (71Lu) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Tungsten (74W) (Xiuxiu Qi and Jing Yan) ; Osmium (76Os) (Lei Gou) ; Iridium (77Ir) (Wei Luo) ; Platinum (78Pt) (Xuefei Wang) ; Gold (79Au) (Xinyu Wei, Ping Zhong and Chuanbo Gao) ; Mercury (80Hg) (Chunyu Zhou and Ji Feng) ; Thallium (81Tl) (Dawei Wang) ; Lead (82Pb) (Jingbin Zeng) -- v. 2. Gas phase synthesis of nanomaterials (Yat Li). Gas phase growth mechanisms (Ying-Chih Pu and Yi Yang) ; Chemical vapor deposition (Bin Yao, Jing Zhang, Wang Xiao and Andrea Cruz) ; Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (Bin Yao, Jing Zhang, Wang Xiao and Daniel Bulmahn) ; Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (Ying-Chih Pu and Yi Yang) ; Atomic layer deposition (Mingyang Li and Yexiang Tong) ; Molecular beam epitaxy methods (Tianyu Liu and Yu Song) ; Other gas phase synthesis methods (Tianyi Kou) -- v. 3. Unconventional methods for nanostructure fabrication (Yiding Liu, Le He and Yadong Yin). Introduction (Yiding Liu) ; Lithography and printing (Le He) ; Self-assembly of nanostructures (Yiding Liu and Le He) ; Chemical transformations of new nanostructured materials (Luntao Liu and Wenshou Wang) ; Template synthesis of nanostructures (Yiding Liu) ; Electrospinning (Rashed Aleisa) ; Laser synthesis of colloids: fundamentals and applications (Hongwen Zhang, Guangqiang Liu, Weiping Cai and Yue Li) ; Flame synthesis of nanomaterials (Heejung Jung) ; Plasma synthesis of nanomaterials (Lorenzo Mangolini and Nicole Wagner) ; Atomic layer deposition for nanomaterials synthesis (Xinwei Wang and Zheng Guo) -- v. 4. Characterization methods for nanostructures (Yihan Zhu and Yu Han). Structural characterizations of nanomaterials by electron diffraction (Peng Guo) ; Characterization of nanomaterials by electron microscopy (Shoucong Ning, Yifei Yuan, Wang Li, Wei Shao, Anmin Nie and Yihan Zhu) ; Applications of atomic force microscopy in characterizing nanomaterials (Pei Wei and Hai Li) ; Scanning tunneling microscopy (Chengding Gu, Shuo Sun, Jialin Zhang, Li Wang and Wei Chen) ; X-ray diffraction (Zhengyang Zhou and Junliang Sun) ; In situ and operando x-ray techniques: introduction, typical sample environments and research examples (Zhiyang Wang and Qinfen Gu) ; X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy for characterizing nanostructures (Hongliang Bao and Jianqiang Wang) ; Static and dynamic light scattering (Yimin Mao, Benjamin S Hsiao and Benjamin Chu) ; Vibrational characterization methods for and with nanostructures (Priscila Alessio, Pedro H B Aoki and Ricardo F Aroca) ; NMR spectroscopy applied to nanostructured materials (Christian G Canlas, Andrei Gurinov, Edy Abou-Hamad and Abdul-Hamid Emwas).