Nanotech Materials
Emerging nanotech promises to revolutionise commercial products
with new materials.
Powders
High quality nanoscale powders represent a unique historic
opportunity for research.
Nanopowders less than 100 nm or so might have eccentric scale effects
enabling useful properties:
- chemical
- electronic
- magnetic
- optical
- mechanical
- coating - special effect
- sintering - ceramic - composite - alloy
Unique properties may be most useful when nanoparticle characterisitics are of the same
order of magnitude as a related parameter.
- charge distributions
- coulomb effects
- crystal effects
- Debye lengths
- electromagnetic wavelengths
- exotic wavelengths
- interaction cross sections
- mean free paths
- magnetic domains
- particle energies
- phonon lengths
- rotational modes
- scattering lengths
- skin depths
- vibrational modes
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