Designing Hybrid Nanoparticles (Second Edition)

This research text provides a concise overview of the technical approaches to the synthesis and characterization of hybrid nanoparticles, with a focus on one of the most promising 'bottom-up' techniques for designing tailored hybrid nanoparticles based on the practical magnetron-sputtering inert-gas-condensation (MS-IGC) method. A modified MS-IGC system is presented, and its performance under different conditions is evaluated.

The text shows how the morphology, size and properties of nanoparticles can be modulated by tuning the deposition parameters such as the energy, cooling rate, and collision and coalescence processes experienced by the nanoparticles during their formation. The mechanisms of formation of different hybrid nanoparticles are suggested, combining the physico-chemical properties of the materials with the experimental conditions.

Designed for graduate students and researchers in physics, materials science, biophysics and process engineering, this fully revised second edition provides the latest developments in the design and characterization of hybrid nanoparticles produced by gas phase method. A new chapter that explains how the design of the modified MS-IGC system is contributing to the shape transformation of nanoparticles (0D) to form nanorods (1D) with different aspect ratios is also included.