The peculiarities of materials at the nanoscale demand an interdisciplinary approach which can be difficult for students and researchers who are trained predominantly in a single field. A chemist might not have experience at working with cell cultures or a physicist may have no idea how to make the gold colloid they need for calibrating an atomic force microscope. The interdisciplinary approach of the book will help you to quickly synthesize information from multiple perspectives.
Nanoscience research is also characterized by rapid movement within disciplines. The amount of time it takes wading through papers and chasing down academics is frustrating and wasteful and our reviewers seem to suggest this work would give an excellent starting point for their work. The current source of published data is either in journal articles, which requires highly advanced knowledge of background information, or books on the subject, which can skim over the essential details of preparations. Having a cookbook to hand to flick through and from which you may select a preparation acts as a good source of contact both to researchers and those who supervise them alike.
This book therefore supports fundamental nanoscience experimentation. It is by intention much more user-friendly than traditional published works, which too-frequently assumes state of the art knowledge. Moreover you can pick up this book and find a synthesis to suit your needs without digging through specialist papers or tracking someone down who eventually may or may not be able to help. Once you have used the recipe the book would then act as a reference guide for how to analyze these materials and what to look out for.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction 2. Chapter 2. Safety 3. Chapter 3. Common Analytical Techniques for Nanoscale Materials 4. Chapter 4. Chemical Techniques 5. The Sol–Gel Process 6. Silica 7. Sodium Silicate 8. Silica Nanoparticles 9. Titania Nanoparticles 10. Making Titania Nanoparticles using Titanium Tetrachloride as a Precursor 11. Preparing Sub 4 nm Nanoparticles Using an Alkoxide Titanium Precursor 12. Making Larger Titania Spheres from Titania Glycolates 13. Making Black Titania Nanoparticles 14. Coating Nanomaterials Using the Sol Gel Method 15. Silica Coating a Gold Colloid 16. Glass Coating an Organic Crystal Template 17. How to Coat a Virus Template with Silica 18. How to Coat Carbon Nanotubes in Silica and Other Oxides using the Sol Gel Process 19. Coating MultiWalled Carbon Nanotubes in Zirconia 20. Using Sol Gel Dip Coating to Form Thin Films, Thin Porous Films and Replicas 21. Dip Coating 22. Dip Coating a Glass Film 23. Making a Dip Coating Chamber 24. Making a Cubic Phase in a Dip coated Silica Film Using Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide 25. Dip Coating to Form a Doped Tin Oxide Film 26. Dip Coating to Form an Anatase Phase Titania Film 27. Replication of Oddly Shaped Morphologies Using Sol Gel Techniques 28. Replicating Pollen with Titania Using a Sol Gel Approach 29. Making a Cuttlefish Bone Replica 30. Making a Superconducting Cuttlebone 31. Mesoporous Inorganic Powders 32. Making a Porous Aluminosilicate Zeolite MCM-41 33. An Alkoxide Approach to MCM-41 Preparation 34. An Alkoxide Approach to MCM-48 Preparation 35. Making a Monolithic Silica Structure from Non-ionic Surfactants using a Diol Based Silica Precursor 36. Aerogels and Supercritical Drying 37. Applications of Aerogels 38. Making Silica Aerogel Monoliths 39. Troubleshooting 40. Cloudiness 41. Spherical or Coin-Shaped Bubbles 42. Stiction 43. Wavy Surfaces 44. Adjustable Parameters and Alternative Methods 45. Recipe for Making Hydrophobic Silica Aerogel Monoliths 46. Monoliths and Glasses Containing Functional Biological Materials 47. Making a Glass Containing Yeast 48. Making a Microtiter Plate Diagnostic for Glucose, Galactose, Lactose and Lactate 49. Making an Optical Thick Film Sensor Bioglass for the Detection of D-glucose-6-Phosphate 50. Growing Zinc Oxide Nanorods 51. Making Seed Layers for the Hydrothermal Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanorods 52. Thermal Decomposition of Zinc Acetate 53. To Seed a Substrate Layer Using a Colloid 54. Hydrothermal Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanorods 55. Cadmium Sulfide, Selenide and Telluride Quantum Dots 56. A Quick Water Based Method for the Preparation of Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles 57. Coating the TMV Virus with Cadmium Sulfide 58. Preparing Cadmium Selenide or Cadmium Telluride Quantum Dots with Well Defined Size Control 59. Making Zinc Sulfide Coated Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles Stable in Water 60. Suface Modification of Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles for use as Fluorescent Labels and Probes 61. Functionalising the Quantum Dots with Transferrin 62. Tagging the Mercaptoacetic Acid Stabilised Zns Coated CdSe Nanoparticles with Streptavidin so they can be Used for Target Specific Labelling 63. Cadmium Selenide Nanorods 64. Making Gold and Silver Colloids 65. Making an Aqueous Gold Colloid Using the Frens Method 66. Making an Oil Stable Alkanethiol Coated Gold Colloid Using the Brust Method 67. How to Make Gold Nanorods 68. How to Make Triangular Gold Nanoparticles 69. Using Plasmon Resonance in Gold Colloids as a Colorimetric Test for Various Molecules 70. A Quick Demonstration of Changing Colour and Colloid Stability with Varying Salt Concentration and PH 71. DNA Based Gold Assemblies and Aptamer Colorimetric Tests 72. Silver Nanoparticles and Structures 73. Making a Basic Silver Colloid by Reduction with Citric Acid 74. Preparation of Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters 75. Making Silver Nanocubes and Rods Using the Polyol Process 76. A Hydrothermal Water Based Method for Preparing Silver Nanocubes 77. Ferrofluids 78. Magnetite Colloid Stabilised by Tetramethyl- or Tertabutylammonium Hydroxides 79. Magnetite Colloids Stabilised by a Biopolymer 80. Making a Polyol Stabilised Magnetite Colloid 81. Making Stable Ferrofluids in Non Polar Solvents 82. Making a Glass Coated Maghemite Colloid 83. Allotropes of Carbon 84. The Buckminsterfullerene 85. Carbon Nanotubes 86. Graphene and Graphene Oxide 87. Metal Organic Frameworks 88. Cobalt Bipyridyl Polymer 89. Prussian Blue Analogues, a Molecular Magnet Framework 90. Microemulsion Production of Cubic Prussian Blue Particles 91. Making a MOF With Large Pores 92. REFERENCES 93. Chapter 5. Physical Techniques 94. Chapter 6. Biological Nanotechnology 95. Index
The peculiarities of materials at the nanoscale demand an interdisciplinary approach which can be difficult for students and researchers who are trained predominantly in a single field. A chemist might not have experience at working with cell cultures or a physicist may have no idea how to make the gold colloid they need for calibrating an atomic force microscope. The interdisciplinary approach of the book will help you to quickly synthesize information from multiple perspectives.
Nanoscience research is also characterized by rapid movement within disciplines. The amount of time it takes wading through papers and chasing down academics is frustrating and wasteful and our reviewers seem to suggest this work would give an excellent starting point for their work. The current source of published data is either in journal articles, which requires highly advanced knowledge of background information, or books on the subject, which can skim over the essential details of preparations. Having a cookbook to hand to flick through and from which you may select a preparation acts as a good source of contact both to researchers and those who supervise them alike.
This book therefore supports fundamental nanoscience experimentation. It is by intention much more user-friendly than traditional published works, which too-frequently assumes state of the art knowledge. Moreover you can pick up this book and find a synthesis to suit your needs without digging through specialist papers or tracking someone down who eventually may or may not be able to help. Once you have used the recipe the book would then act as a reference guide for how to analyze these materials and what to look out for.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction 2. Chapter 2. Safety 3. Chapter 3. Common Analytical Techniques for Nanoscale Materials 4. Chapter 4. Chemical Techniques 5. The Sol–Gel Process 6. Silica 7. Sodium Silicate 8. Silica Nanoparticles 9. Titania Nanoparticles 10. Making Titania Nanoparticles using Titanium Tetrachloride as a Precursor 11. Preparing Sub 4 nm Nanoparticles Using an Alkoxide Titanium Precursor 12. Making Larger Titania Spheres from Titania Glycolates 13. Making Black Titania Nanoparticles 14. Coating Nanomaterials Using the Sol Gel Method 15. Silica Coating a Gold Colloid 16. Glass Coating an Organic Crystal Template 17. How to Coat a Virus Template with Silica 18. How to Coat Carbon Nanotubes in Silica and Other Oxides using the Sol Gel Process 19. Coating MultiWalled Carbon Nanotubes in Zirconia 20. Using Sol Gel Dip Coating to Form Thin Films, Thin Porous Films and Replicas 21. Dip Coating 22. Dip Coating a Glass Film 23. Making a Dip Coating Chamber 24. Making a Cubic Phase in a Dip coated Silica Film Using Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide 25. Dip Coating to Form a Doped Tin Oxide Film 26. Dip Coating to Form an Anatase Phase Titania Film 27. Replication of Oddly Shaped Morphologies Using Sol Gel Techniques 28. Replicating Pollen with Titania Using a Sol Gel Approach 29. Making a Cuttlefish Bone Replica 30. Making a Superconducting Cuttlebone 31. Mesoporous Inorganic Powders 32. Making a Porous Aluminosilicate Zeolite MCM-41 33. An Alkoxide Approach to MCM-41 Preparation 34. An Alkoxide Approach to MCM-48 Preparation 35. Making a Monolithic Silica Structure from Non-ionic Surfactants using a Diol Based Silica Precursor 36. Aerogels and Supercritical Drying 37. Applications of Aerogels 38. Making Silica Aerogel Monoliths 39. Troubleshooting 40. Cloudiness 41. Spherical or Coin-Shaped Bubbles 42. Stiction 43. Wavy Surfaces 44. Adjustable Parameters and Alternative Methods 45. Recipe for Making Hydrophobic Silica Aerogel Monoliths 46. Monoliths and Glasses Containing Functional Biological Materials 47. Making a Glass Containing Yeast 48. Making a Microtiter Plate Diagnostic for Glucose, Galactose, Lactose and Lactate 49. Making an Optical Thick Film Sensor Bioglass for the Detection of D-glucose-6-Phosphate 50. Growing Zinc Oxide Nanorods 51. Making Seed Layers for the Hydrothermal Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanorods 52. Thermal Decomposition of Zinc Acetate 53. To Seed a Substrate Layer Using a Colloid 54. Hydrothermal Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanorods 55. Cadmium Sulfide, Selenide and Telluride Quantum Dots 56. A Quick Water Based Method for the Preparation of Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles 57. Coating the TMV Virus with Cadmium Sulfide 58. Preparing Cadmium Selenide or Cadmium Telluride Quantum Dots with Well Defined Size Control 59. Making Zinc Sulfide Coated Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles Stable in Water 60. Suface Modification of Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles for use as Fluorescent Labels and Probes 61. Functionalising the Quantum Dots with Transferrin 62. Tagging the Mercaptoacetic Acid Stabilised Zns Coated CdSe Nanoparticles with Streptavidin so they can be Used for Target Specific Labelling 63. Cadmium Selenide Nanorods 64. Making Gold and Silver Colloids 65. Making an Aqueous Gold Colloid Using the Frens Method 66. Making an Oil Stable Alkanethiol Coated Gold Colloid Using the Brust Method 67. How to Make Gold Nanorods 68. How to Make Triangular Gold Nanoparticles 69. Using Plasmon Resonance in Gold Colloids as a Colorimetric Test for Various Molecules 70. A Quick Demonstration of Changing Colour and Colloid Stability with Varying Salt Concentration and PH 71. DNA Based Gold Assemblies and Aptamer Colorimetric Tests 72. Silver Nanoparticles and Structures 73. Making a Basic Silver Colloid by Reduction with Citric Acid 74. Preparation of Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters 75. Making Silver Nanocubes and Rods Using the Polyol Process 76. A Hydrothermal Water Based Method for Preparing Silver Nanocubes 77. Ferrofluids 78. Magnetite Colloid Stabilised by Tetramethyl- or Tertabutylammonium Hydroxides 79. Magnetite Colloids Stabilised by a Biopolymer 80. Making a Polyol Stabilised Magnetite Colloid 81. Making Stable Ferrofluids in Non Polar Solvents 82. Making a Glass Coated Maghemite Colloid 83. Allotropes of Carbon 84. The Buckminsterfullerene 85. Carbon Nanotubes 86. Graphene and Graphene Oxide 87. Metal Organic Frameworks 88. Cobalt Bipyridyl Polymer 89. Prussian Blue Analogues, a Molecular Magnet Framework 90. Microemulsion Production of Cubic Prussian Blue Particles 91. Making a MOF With Large Pores 92. REFERENCES 93. Chapter 5. Physical Techniques 94. Chapter 6. Biological Nanotechnology 95. Index
