Low Temperature Chemical Nanofabrication: Recent Progress, Challenges and Emerging Technologies (Micro and Nano Technologies)

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Low Temperature Chemical Nanofabrication: Recent Progress, Challenges and
Emerging Technologies
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Contents
1 Introduction
	1.1 When nanotechnology started?
	1.2 Nanotechnology driving force
	1.3 Why nanostructures?
	1.4 This book
	References
2 Phenomenon at the nanoscale
	2.1 Why a nanomaterial is different from the bulk?
	2.2 Electronic band structure of nanomaterials
	2.3 Optical properties at the nanoscale
	2.4 Other nanostructures morphology related effects
	2.5 Nanodielectric effects
	References
	Further reading
3 Conventional nanofabrication methods
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Mechanical techniques
	3.3 Lithography techniques
		3.3.1 Optical lithography
		3.3.2 Scanning mode lithography
		3.3.3 Electron beam lithography
		3.3.4 Soft lithography
		3.3.5 Nanosphere lithography
		3.3.6 Colloidal lithography
		3.3.7 Scanning probe lithography
	3.4 Bottom-up conventional nanofabrication methods
		3.4.1 Vapor liquid solid synthesis of nanostructures
		3.4.2 Chemical vapor deposition for the fabrication of nanostructures
		3.4.3 Molecular beam epitaxy for the fabrication of nanostructures
		3.4.4 Pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures
		3.4.5 Sputtering growth of nanostructures
	References
	Further reading
4 New emerging nanofabrication methods
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Emerging top-down nanostructures fabrication and imaging technologies
		4.2.1 Ultrafast light-assisted nanofabrication
		4.2.2 Focused ion beam nanofabrication
		4.2.3 Imaging of nanostructures
	4.3 Self-assembly for nanostructures fabrication
	4.4 inkjet printing as a tool for nanofabrication
	4.5 Electrospinning for fiber nanofabrication
	4.6 Chemical nanofabrication methods
		4.6.1 Chemical top-down nanofabrication methods
		4.6.2 Chemical bottom-up nanofabrication methods
	4.7 Preserving nanostructures
	References
	Further reading
5 Low-temperature chemical nanofabrication methods
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 The chemical precipitation method
		5.2.1 Chemicals
		5.2.2 Method 1
		5.2.3 Method 2
		5.2.4 Isolation and purification
		5.2.5 Size-selective precipitation
	5.3 Low-temperature aqueous chemical synthesis of nanostructures
	5.4 The electrochemical deposition
	5.5 The microwave-assisted chemical deposition
	5.6 Solochemical synthesis of nanostructures
		5.6.1 Zinc sol preparation
		5.6.2 Titanium sol preparation
		5.6.3 ZnO–TiO2 nanocomposite solochemical synthesis
	5.7 Polyol chemical synthesis of nanostructures
	5.8 Solvothermal chemical synthesis
	5.9 Successive ionic-layer adsorption and reaction
	5.10 Summary of the low-temperature chemical synthesis of nanostructures
	References
	Further reading
6 Emerging new applications
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Emerging sensors
	6.3 New sustainable energy related applications
	6.4 New emerging photocatalysis applications
	6.5 Low-temperature nanofabrication: challenges and future prospects
	References
Index
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