Affiliation: | a Department of Chemical System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113, Japan b Frontier Research Program, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-01, Japan c Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) 1-1–4, Umezono, Tsukuba, 305, Japan d Physics Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180-3590, USA |
Abstract: | The synthesis of coated nanoparticles is a new direction in engineering, specifically in the study of physical properties of materials. We examine semiconductor coated semiconductor particles, CdS/PbS, and metal coated particles, Au2S/Au, and the theoretical basis for their unique properties. Coated self-assembled nanoparticles are also studied and recent progress is reported. |