Sushilkumar A. Jadhav
Abstract
Nanomaterials of interesting shapes such as nanostars, nanodiscs, nanorods and nanoflowers are frequently synthesized by chemists, experimental physicists and material scientists nowadays. Large number of the bottom-up or top-down synthetic techniques are invented and reported for the synthesis of these ...
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Nanomaterials of interesting shapes such as nanostars, nanodiscs, nanorods and nanoflowers are frequently synthesized by chemists, experimental physicists and material scientists nowadays. Large number of the bottom-up or top-down synthetic techniques are invented and reported for the synthesis of these materials with interesting shapes. Such shapes found to already exist in nature. The great nature has done this nano artwork with its power and unbeatable architectural skills at molecular level. The ultimate aim of the synthesis techniques invented may not be to mimic nature or challenge it but instead to explore the use of these variously shaped nanomaterials in technological and biomedical applications. These materials found to be applicable in their use as drug delivery systems, catalysis, and energy and as biosensors. In the present note some of the recent examples of such materials are discussed with their images taken with high resolution microscopes.
Sushilkumar A. Jadhav; Roberta Bongiovanni
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Several new techniques are invented in recent years to attach organic, bio-organic functionalities to the nanostructures such as the nanoparticles. This approach of adding surface reactivity to the particles enables to tune the properties and reactivity of the resulting hybrid monolayer protected nanoparticles. ...
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Several new techniques are invented in recent years to attach organic, bio-organic functionalities to the nanostructures such as the nanoparticles. This approach of adding surface reactivity to the particles enables to tune the properties and reactivity of the resulting hybrid monolayer protected nanoparticles. Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles of various sizes are reported which bears different organic or polymeric groups. In the present note we have revised the important methods of synthesis of magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles and highlighted the most common strategies for the functionalization of these nanoparticles with organic compounds from very recent literature. This short note will help the students and researchers to screen and choose methods for the synthesis and functionalization of magnetite nanoparticles.