Nanochemistry: Synthesis in Diminishing Dimensions

Nanochemistry: Synthesis in Diminishing Dimensions

Ozin, Geoffrey A.
Advanced materials 4, no. 10 (1992): 612-649
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.19920041003

“Nanochemistry, as opposed to nanophysics, is an emerging subdiscipline of solid-state chemistry that emphasizes the synthesis rather than the engineering aspects of preparing little pieces of matter with nanometer sizes in one, two or three dimensions. Currently there is considerable interest in nanoscale objects, since they exhibit novel materials properties, largely as a consequence of their finite small size. The nanochemist can be considered to work towards this goal from the atom “up”, whereas the nanophysicist tends to operate from the bulk “down”. Building and organizing nanoscale objects under mild and controlled conditions “one atom at a time” instead of “manipulating” the bulk, should in principle provide a reproducible method of producing materials that are perfect in size and shape down to the atoms.”

— Geoffrey Ozin