Book chapter
Nanostructured materials in electrochemistry: Foreword
Nanostructured materials in electrochemistry, pp VII-IX
29 Aug 2008
Abstract
anostructured materials or nanomaterials – which are materials with structuralunits on a nanometer scale in at least one direction – have received much attentionworldwide over the past decade. Indeed, for just one single class of nanostructuredmaterials – the carbon nanotubes – the number of published reports has increasedfrom less than 500 per year in 2000 to almost 3000 in 2007 (ISI Web of Science).Since material properties become different on the nanoscale, much effort is cur-rently being dedicated to the synthesis, structure control and property improvementof nanomaterials. For example, the deformation mechanisms of nanocrystallinemetals are different from those of microcrystalline metals. One-dimensional nano-materials such as nanotubes and nanowires possess many attractive propertieswhich can be fine-tuned by controlling their diameter. Today, the industrial applica-tions of nanomaterials continue to grow in number, with hundreds of products nowavailable worldwide. Nanostructured materials are widely used in many applicationswhere people do not expect to see nanotechnology. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Nanostructured materials in electrochemistry: Foreword
- Creators
- Patrice Simon - Université Toulouse III - Paul SabatierYury Gogotsi - Drexel University
- Contributors
- Ali Eftekhari - Avicenna Institute of Technology
- Publication Details
- Nanostructured materials in electrochemistry, pp VII-IX
- Publisher
- Wiley-VCH
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84890968666
- Other Identifier
- 991019173462204721