Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry

Nanocrystals and Clusters

Nanoclusters and Nanocrystals afford attention on various aspects of nanoclusters and Nanocrystals. Recent synthetic strategies to construct metallic or semiconducting nanoscale clusters and crystals, nanocrystalline films, control of bulk and form of clusters and crystals, progress mechanism, spectroscopic categorization, amorphous and crystalline structures, physical properties and potential engineering applications in transducers and photocatalysis. A colloidal nanocrystal cluster (CNC) is a hierarchical nanostructure formed by clustering several nanocrystals into one nano-ensemble, which may exhibit unique optical or catalytic properties different from individual nanocrystals owing to the mutual interactions among neighboring component nanocrystals.