An-Hui Lu & Dongyuan Zhao 
Nanocasting [PDF ebook] 
A Versatile Strategy for Creating Nanostructured Porous Materials

Nanostructured materials with tailored properties are regarded as a fundamental element in the development of future science and technology. Research is still ongoing into the nanosized construction elements required to create functional solids. The recently developed technique, nanocasting, has great advantage over others in terms of the synthesis of special nanostructured materials by the careful choice of suitable elements and nanoengineering steps. This new book summarizes the recent developments in nanocasting, including the principles of nanocasting, syntheses of novel nanostructured materials, characterization methods, detailed synthetic recipes and further possible development in this area. The book focuses on the synthesis of porous solids from the viewpoint of methodology and introduces the science of nanocasting from fundamental principles to their use in synthesis of various materials. It starts by outlining the principles of nanocasting, requirements to the templates and precursors and the tools needed to probe matter at the nanoscale level. It describes how to synthesize nano structured porous solids with defined characteristics and finally discusses the functionalization and application of porous solids. Special attention is given to new developments in this field and future perspectives. A useful appendix covering the detailed synthetic recipes of various templates including porous silica, porous carbon and colloidal spheres is included which will be invaluable to researchers wanting to follow and reproduce nanocast materials. Topics covered in the book include: * inorganic chemistry * organic chemistry * solution chemistry * sol-gel and interface science * acid-base equilibria * electrochemistry * biochemistry * confined synthesis The book gives readers not only an overview of nanocasting technology, but also sufficient information and knowledge for those wanting to prepare various nanostructured materials without needing to search the available literature.

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Characteristics of Non-covalent Complexes and Their Determination by Experimental and Theoretical Techniques; Chapter 3: Potential Energy and Free Energy Surfaces; Chapter 4: Classification of Non-covalent Complexes; Chapter 5: Interpretation of Experimental Results and Types of Molecular Clusters; Chapter 6: Extended Molecular Clusters in Chemistry, the Atmosphere and Stereospecific Molecular Recognition; Subject Index

Despre autor

Dongyuan Zhao received his BS and MS in chemistry from Jilin University. He obtained his Ph D in 1990 from Jilin University and Dalian Institute Chemical Physics. In 1992-1993, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Chemistry, University of Regina and later carried out his postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science (1993-1994), University of Houston (1995-1996), and University of California at Santa Barbara (1996-1998). He is now a Professor (Cheung Kong Professorship) in the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University. His current research interests include synthesis, structural characterization and application on ordered porous materials, such as mesoporous materials, zeolites, and coordination polymers.