Аннотация:Nanoscience and nanotechnology represent one of the main directions of natural science of the twenty-first century and are being actively and rapidly developed. Nanoscience deals with the search and description of fundamental phenomena, relationships, and properties typical of small-scale particles of the nanometer size. Nanotechnology implements the achievements of nanoscience in new processes, materials, and devices. In nanoscience and nanotechnology, the fundamental and applied problems are intertwined, and the latest achievements of theoretical and experimental physics, chemistry, biology, material science, and technology are used.
Nanoscience is a multibranch direction of natural science that combines the features typical of living organisms and the inorganic world.
Nanochemistry forms an important part of nanotechnology, because a lot of processes and syntheses of new materials start from atoms, molecules, clusters, nanoparticles. Thus, on the one hand, chemistry and nanochemistry deal with the initial stage on preparation of various materials and, on the other side, for nanoparticles of different elements, unusual chemical reactions have been observed, and products with unusual chemical properties have been synthesized. The phenomena that depend on the number of particles involved in the reaction are studied by nanochemistry.
Such phenomena associated with the dependence of the chemical activity on the size of involved particles are referred to as the size effect. The experimental and theoretical development of the latter determines the progress in many directions and applications of nanochemistry.
The development of nanoscience and nanotechnology and, hence, of nanochemistry, proceeds very rapidly. This is evidenced by the appearance of the second and new editions of many monographs.
The monograph by professor G.B. Sergeeev was first published in Russian in 2003; its extended English version was published by Elsevier in 2006. For the second edition, professors Sergeev and К. Klabunde decided to join their efforts in order to more completely reflect the state in the art in nanochemistry. This favored considerable widening and renewal of the covered material.
Three new chapters, which deal with preparation of solvated dispersions of metal atoms used in the synthesis of nanoparticles, the self-assembling of nanoparticles, and the control over their size, and also a chapter on the synthesis and properties of organic nanoparticles were added. Besides these new chapters, new paragraphs and sections were supplemented to virtually all chapters of the first edition. The new material constitutes about 40% of the total content.
Many chapters of the first edition have not yet lost their significance as regards both modern science and education and are fully included in the second edition.
The book “Nanochemistry” is of interest for those who deal with problems of both nanoscience and nanotechnology or is interested in the latter one.
In preparation of the second edition, inestimable assistance was rendered by N.S. Merkulova, the wife of G.B. Sergeeev, to whom the latter is extremely grateful. Likewise, K. Klabunde is indebted to his wife, Linda Klabunde, for her valuable contributions, assistance, and patience, which allowed this Second Edition to be completed.