Discrete nanostructures have a limited scope of applications, due to potential cytotoxicity and difficulty in separation and recovery after use. Furthermore, a functional nanostructure nowadays is normally not a single-phase solid, but a highly organized multicomponent materials system. To prepare such complex nanomaterials, architectural aspects of design and synthesis need to be addressed, because the ways of compositional and structural organizations in the final products will give profound impacts on their ultimate performance. Therefore, our recent research efforts are mostly directed to development of chemical methods for integrative organization of functional materials into complex nanostructures, which will be the subject of this presentation. We have recently synthesized a range of functional nanostructures with architectural designs. In particular, chemical and structural transformations were often employed in our processing steps in liquid media under mild reaction conditions.

Chemical and structural transformations in nanomaterials synthesis

244th National Meeting (2012)

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