This important book reviews extensively the preparative chemistry of various nanostructured materials, as well as structural-property correlations for these new materials. Materials of current interest, such as nanocrystals, nanowires, nanotubes, porous materials, and composites, are comprehensively covered.

Contents:

• Crystalline Microporous and Open Framework Materials (X-H Bu & P-Y Feng)
• Mesoporous Materials (A Sayari)
• Macroporous Materials Containing Three-Dimensionally Periodic Structures (Y-N Xia et al.)
• CVD Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (B Zheng & J Liu)
• Nanocrystals (M P Pileni)
• Inorganic Fullerene-Like Structures and Inorganic Nanotubes from 2-D Layered Compounds (R Tenne)
• Semiconductor Nanowires: Functional Building Blocks for Nanotechnology (H-Q Yan & P-D Yang)
• Harnessing Synthetic Versatility Toward Intelligent Interfacial Design: Organic Functionalization of Nanostructured Silicon Surfaces (L A Porter & J M Buriak)
• Molecular Networks as Novel Materials (W-B Lin & H L Ngo)
• Molecular Cluster Magnets (J R Long)
• Block Copolymers in Nanotechnology (N P Balsara & H Hahn)
• The Expanding World of Nanoparticle and Nanoporous Catalysts (R Raja & J M Thomas)
• Nanocomposites (W Caseri)

“For chemists, physicists and engineers this book is interesting in terms of preparative methodologies of nanostructured materials and their characterization ... We recommend the book for people who want to get a quick precise grasp of the status of the chemistry of nanostructured materials.”