This document summarizes key aspects of nanocrystals, including their chemical and catalytic properties. It first introduces Richard Feynman as pioneering the field of nanotechnology in 1959. It then defines nanoscience and nanotechnology as the study and application of extremely small things at the nanometer scale. The document outlines some chemical properties of nanocrystals like corrosion, adsorption, oxidation, and reduction that are important for surface chemistry processes. It also discusses how nanomaterials can be used for catalysis and provides examples of electronic, support, and shape effects on different metallic nanoparticles. Metal oxides and sulfides are highlighted for their use in reactions like methanol synthesis.
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1. SELVAMM ARTS SCEINCE COLLEGE
(AUTONOMOUS)
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCEIENCE IN PHYSICS
Submitted by
S.SOUNDARRAJAN
CHEMICAL AND CATALYTIIC ASPECTS
OF NANOCRYSTALS
2. Introduction
Chemical properties
Surface chemistry process
Nanomaterial in catalysis
Plane of talk
4. Plenty of Room at the Bottom
… But there is plenty of room to make
them smaller
The idea behind nanotechnology
originated with Nobel Laureate Richard
Feynman nearly 50 years ago.
There is nothing that I can see in the
physical law that says the elements
cannot be made enormously smaller than
they are now. ….
Richard Feyman
December 29, 1959
The annual meeting of the American Physical Society at
Caltech
5. Nanotechnology
Nano science and nanotechnology are the study and
application of extermely small things and can be used
across all the other science fields , such as chemistry ,
physics ,biology , materials science , and engineering.
just how small nanotechnology is are nanometer is a
10−9
nm
13. Nanomaterials in catalysis
Metallic nanoparticles exhibit different
catalytic activities as follows
Electronic effects
Support effects
Shape effects
Recent progress
Metal oxides and sulfides