The list below contains a number of websites about topics
related to the area of nanoscience, and about the chemistry of clusters
and colloids.

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers interesting
movies about Colloid Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Magnetic Particles, etc.

Why make devices smaller ?

How does an Atomic Force Microscope work ?

How do semiconductor devices function ?

Physics Information Source

 

Research Opportunities

C. B. Murray, C. R. Kagan, and M. G. Bawendi, Synthesis and characterization
of monodisperse nanocrystals and closed-packed
nanocrystal assemblies
, Annu. Rev. Mater. Sci. 2000, 30, 545–610.

John D. Aiken III, Richard G. Finke, A review of modern transition-metal nanoclusters: their synthesis, characterization, and
applications in catalysis, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 1999, 145, 1–44

  • Self-Assembly

D. H. Gracias, J. Tien, T. L. Breen, C. Hsu, E. M. Whitesides, Forming electrical networks in three dimensions by self-assembly, 
Science 289 (2000) 1170.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/289/5482/1170

D. L. Feldheim, C. D. Keating, Self-assembly of single electron transistors and related devices,  Chemical Society Reviews 27 (1998) 1. 
 
http://www.rsc.org/ej/CS/1998/Z9827001.pdf

C. A. Mirkin, Programming the assembly of two- and three-dimensional architectures with DNA and nanoscale inorganic
building blocks,  Inorganic Chemistry 39 (2000) 2258.
http://pubs.acs.org/CHECKCCIP-998779135/isubscribe/
journals/inocaj/jtext.cgi?inocaj/39/i11/html/ic991123r.html

C. J. Loweth, W. B. Caldwell, X. G. Peng, A. P. Alivisatos, P. G. Schultz, DNA-based assembly of gold nanocrystals, 
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 38 (1999) 1808.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext?ID=62000783&PLACEBO=IE.pdf

  • Molecular Clusters

A. Muller, P. Kogerler, From simple building blocks to structures with increasing size and complexity (vol 182, pg 3, 1999),  Coordination
Chemistry Reviews 199 (2000) 335.

T. Saito, H. Imoto, Chalcogenide Cluster Complexes of Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, and Rhenium,  Bulletin of the
Chemical Society of Japan 69 (1996) 2403.

A. Simon, Condensed metal clusters,  Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 20 (1981) 1.

  • Electrodeposition

M. P. Zach, K. H. Ng, R. M. Penner, Molybdenum nanowires by electrodeposition,  Science 290 (2000) 2120.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/290/5499/2120


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