| Inroduction | |
| Synthetic Self-Assembled Materials: Principles and Practice | |
| Microscopic and Macroscopic Interactions | |
| Surfactants and Amphiphilic Molecules | |
| Transition from Dispersed State to Condensed State: The Beginning Point of Self-Assembly | |
| Packing Geometry: Attaining the Desired Self-Assembled Structures | |
| Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Nanostructures | |
| Co-Assembly of Liquid Crystalline Structures and Inorganic Materials | |
| Intelligent Nanoscale Materials | |
| References | |
| Examples of Nanoscale Materials in Nature | |
| Multiscale Ordering and Function in Biological Nanoscale Materials | |
| Hierarchical Ordering in Natural Nanoscale Materials | |
| Multifunction of the Organic Phase in Biological Nanoscale Materials | |
| References | |
| Nanocrystal Self-assembly | |
| Nanocrystals | |
| Shapes of Polyhedral Nanocrystals | |
| Self-assembly of Nanocrystals | |
| Solution-phase Self-assembly of Particles | |
| Technical Aspects of Self-assembling | |
| Properties of Nanocrystal Self-assembly | |
| Template Assisted Self-assembly | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Structural Characterization of Nanoarchitectures | |
| X-ray Diffraction | |
| Scanning Probe Microscopy | |
| Scanning Electron Microscopy | |
| Transmission Electron Microscopy | |
| Summary | |
| References | |
| Fabrication of Nanoarchitectures Using Lithographic Techniques | |
| Fabrication Techniques and Nanolithography | |
| X-ray, Electron and Ion Beam Lithography | |
| Nanoparticle Lithography | |
| Scanning Probe Lithography | |
| Concluding Remarks | |
| References | |
| Chemical and Photochemical Reactivities of Nano-architectures | |
| Redox Potentials of Nanomaterials | |
| Photochemical and Chemical Reactions | |
| Photoelectrochemical Reactions | |
| Photocatalysis and Environmental Applications | |
| Molecular Recognition and Surface Specific Interaction | |
| References | |
| Optical, Electronic, and Dynamic Properties of Semiconductor Nnaomaterials | |
| Energy Levels and Density of States in Reduced Dimension Systems | |
| Electronic Structure and Electronic Properties | |
| Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanomaterials | |
| Applications of Optical Properties | |
| Charge Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanoparticles | |
| References | |
| Optical, Electronic, and Dynamic Properties of Metal Nanomaterials | |
| Static Absorption Properties of Metal Nanoparticles and Assemblies | |
| Emission of Metal Particles | |
| Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) | |
| Spectral Line Widths and Electronic Dephasing | |
| Electronic Relaxation Dynamics | |
| Electron-Phonon Interaction | |
| Single Particle Spectroscopy of Metal Nanoparticles | |
| Applications of Metal Nanoparticles | |
| References | |
| Electrochemical Properties of Nanoparticle Assemblies | |
| Introduction | |
| Classical Coulomb Staircase | |
| Nanoparticle Quantized Capacitance Charging | |
| Bulk-Phase Electrochemistry of Nanoparticles | |
| Concluding Remarks | |
| References | |
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