v. 1. Solution phase synthesis of nanomaterials (Yadong Yin and Yu Lu). Synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals through thermolysis of precursors (Raúl García-Rodríguez and Haitao Liu) ; Solvothermal synthesis of nanomaterials (Haoyi Li and Xun Wang) ; Lithium (³Li) (Jianwu Wen) ; Carbon (⁴C) (Ji Feng) ; Magnesium (¹²Mg) (Aiqin Gao) ; Alumium (¹³Al) (Pingping Wei and Na Li) ; Silicon (¹⁴Si) (Juan Li) ; Phosphorus (¹⁵P) (Xin Wang) ; Sulfur (¹⁶S) (Jing Yan) ; Potassium (¹⁹K) (Xiaxi Yao) ; Calcium (²⁰Ca) (Xiaojing Wang) ; Scandium (²¹Sc) (Qinqin Liu and Ji Feng) ; Titanium (²²Ti) (Zhenda Lu and Hongbo Li) ; Vanadium (²³V) (Luntao Liu and Wenshou Wang) ; Chromium (²⁴Cr) (Jian Zhang) ; Manganese (²⁵Mn) (Guocheng Lv, Ji Feng and Mingfu Gong) ; Iron (²⁶Fe) (Mingfu Gong and Yu Lu) ; Cobalt (²⁷Co) (Yu Lu and Fenglei Lyu) ; Nickel (²⁸Ni) (Panpan Xu, Lan Peng, Jian Liu, Wenwen Yin and Shuai Zhou) ; Copper (²⁹Cu) (Yongqiang Wang) ; Zinc (³⁰Zn) (Qingsong Fan, Chaolumen Wu and Ji Feng) ; Gallium (³¹Ga) (Rashed Aleisa) ; Germanium (³²Ge) (Yaocai Bai) ; Selenium (³⁴Se) (Yaocai Bai and Jianwu Wen) ; Yttrium (³⁹Y) (Jianping Ge, Pingping Wei and Na Li) ; Zirconium (⁴⁰Zr) (Haibo He) ; Niobium (⁴¹Nb) (Xiong Yin) ; Molybdenum (⁴²Mo) (Mingyang Xing and Wenjing Xu) ; Ruthenium (⁴⁴Ru) (Fenglei Lyu) ; Rhodium (⁴⁵Rh) (Yun Liu) ; Palladium (⁴⁶Pd) (Fan Yang) ; Silver (⁴⁷Ag) (Qiao Zhang and Hongxia Yu) ; Cadmiun (⁴⁸Cd) (Qipeng Lu) ; Indium (⁴⁹In) (Jie Han) ; Tin (⁵⁰Sn) (Jinxing Chen and Dawei Ding) ; Tellurium (⁵²Te) (Yaocai Bai) ; Barium (⁵⁶Ba) (Hongyan Liu) ; Lanthanum (⁵⁷La) (Zhiwei Li) ; Cerium (⁵⁸Ce) (Zhiwei Li) ; Praseodmium (⁵⁹Pr) (Zhiwei Li) ; Neodymium (⁶⁰Nd) (Zhiwei Li) ; Samarium (⁶²Sm) (Zhiwei Li) ; Europium (⁶³Eu) (Zhiwei Li) ; Gadolinium (⁶⁴Gd) (Zhiwei Li) ; Terbium (⁶⁵Tb) (Ye Luo and Junxiang Fu) ; Dysprosium (⁶⁶Dy) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Holmium (⁶⁷Ho) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Erbium (⁶⁸Er) (Qiliang Xie, Ye Luo and Junxiang Fu) ; Thulium (⁶⁹Tm) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Ytterbium (⁷⁰Yb) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Lutetium (⁷¹Lu) (Ye Luo, Qiliang Xie and Junxiang Fu) ; Tungsten (⁷⁴W) (Xiuxiu Qi and Jing Yan) ; Osmium (⁷⁶Os) (Lei Gou) ; Iridium (⁷⁷Ir) (Wei Luo) ; Platinum (⁷⁸Pt) (Xuefei Wang) ; Gold (⁷⁹Au) (Xinyu Wei, Ping Zhong and Chuanbo Gao) ; Mercury (⁸⁰Hg) (Chunyu Zhou and Ji Feng) ; Thallium (⁸¹Tl) (Dawei Wang) ; Lead (⁸²Pb) (Jingbin Zeng) - v. 2. Gas phase synthesis of nanomaterials (Yat Li). Gas phase growth mechanisms (Ying-Chih Pu and Yi Yang) ; Chemical vapor deposition (Bin Yao, Jing Zhang, Wang Xiao and Andrea Cruz) ; Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (Bin Yao, Jing Zhang, Wang Xiao and Daniel Bulmahn) ; Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (Ying-Chih Pu and Yi Yang) ; Atomic layer deposition (Mingyang Li and Yexiang Tong) ; Molecular beam epitaxy methods (Tianyu Liu and Yu Song) ; Other gas phase synthesis methods (Tianyi Kou) - v. 3. Unconventional methods for nanostructure fabrication (Yiding Liu, Le He and Yadong Yin). Introduction (Yiding Liu) ; Lithography and printing (Le He) ; Self-assembly of nanostructures (Yiding Liu and Le He) ; Chemical transformations of new nanostructured materials (Luntao Liu and Wenshou Wang) ; Template synthesis of nanostructures (Yiding Liu) ; Electrospinning (Rashed Aleisa) ; Laser synthesis of colloids: fundamentals and applications (Hongwen Zhang, Guangqiang Liu, Weiping Cai and Yue Li) ; Flame synthesis of nanomaterials (Heejung Jung) ; Plasma synthesis of nanomaterials (Lorenzo Mangolini and Nicole Wagner) ; Atomic layer deposition for nanomaterials synthesis (Xinwei Wang and Zheng Guo) - v. 4. Characterization methods for nanostructures (Yihan Zhu and Yu Han). Structural characterizations of nanomaterials by electron diffraction (Peng Guo) ; Characterization of nanomaterials by electron microscopy (Shoucong Ning, Yifei Yuan, Wang Li, Wei Shao, Anmin Nie and Yihan Zhu) ; Applications of atomic force microscopy in characterizing nanomaterials (Pei Wei and Hai Li) ; Scanning tunneling microscopy (Chengding Gu, Shuo Sun, Jialin Zhang, Li Wang and Wei Chen) ; X-ray diffraction (Zhengyang Zhou and Junliang Sun) ; In situ and operando x-ray techniques: introduction, typical sample environments and research examples (Zhiyang Wang and Qinfen Gu) ; X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy for characterizing nanostructures (Hongliang Bao and Jianqiang Wang) ; Static and dynamic light scattering (Yimin Mao, Benjamin S Hsiao and Benjamin Chu) ; Vibrational characterization methods for and with nanostructures (Priscila Alessio, Pedro H B Aoki and Ricardo F Aroca) ; NMR spectroscopy applied to nanostructured materials (Christian G Canlas, Andrei Gurinov, Edy Abou-Hamad and Abdul-Hamid Emwas).

This comprehensive book set includes four volumes, covering the methods and protocols for the synthesis, fabrication, and characterization of nanomaterials. The first two books introduce the solution phase and gas synthesis approaches for nanomaterials, providing a number of most widely used protocols for each nanomaterial. An exhaustive list of nanomaterials are included, which are arranged according to the atomic number of the main element in the compound for easy search. For each material, the protocols are categorized according to the morphology of the nanostructure. A detailed reference is included in each protocol to point the readers to the source of the protocol. The third book describes many unconventional methods for the fabrication of nanostructures, including lithography and printing, self-assembly, chemical transformation, templated synthesis, electrospinning, laser induced synthesis, flame and plasma synthesis, and atomic layer deposition processes. The fourth book covers the typical methods for structural characterization of nanomaterials, including electron diffraction, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, X-ray diffraction, in-situ and operando X-ray techniques, X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, static and dynamic light scattering, vibrational characterization methods, and NMR spectroscopy. In addition to the introduction of the basic operational principles of these tools, the book focuses explicitly on how they can be applied for analyzing nanomaterials. The handbook is a complete reference that can provide readers easily accessible information on how to synthesize and characterize nanomaterials desired for their target applications.

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