Characterization of nanomaterials by physical methods

Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
C N R Rao, Kanishka Biswas

Abstract

Much progress in nanoscience and nanotechnology has been made in the past few years thanks to the increased availability of sophisticated physical methods to characterize nanomaterials. These techniques include electron microscopy and scanning probe microscopies, in addition to standard techniques such as X-ray and neutron diffraction, X-ray scattering, and various spectroscopies. Characterization of nanomaterials includes the determination not only of size and shape, but also of the atomic and electronic structures and other important properties. In this article we describe some of the important methods employed for characterization of nanostructures, describing a few case studies for illustrative purposes. These case studies include characterizations of Au, ReO(3), and GaN nanocrystals; ZnO, Ni, and Co nanowires; inorganic and carbon nanotubes; and two-dimensional graphene.

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
neutron diffraction
X-ray
scanning probe microscopies
Transmission
electron diffraction
transmission electron microscopy
AFM
atomic force microscopy
Scanning tunneling microscopy
irradiating

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