Featuring material from celebrated innovators in this rapidly developing field of research, this book provides a comprehensive survey of recent advances in a subject certain to yield a host of powerful applications in technology and optoelectronics.

Nanodroplets, the basis of complex and advanced nanostructures such as quantum rings, quantum dots and quantum dot clusters for future electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices, have attracted the interdisciplinary interest of chemists, physicists and engineers. This book combines experimental and theoretical analyses of nanosized droplets which reveal many attractive properties. Coverage includes nanodroplet synthesis, structure, unique behaviors and their nanofabrication, including chapters on focused ion beam, atomic force microscopy, molecular beam epitaxy and the "vapor-liquid- solid" route. Particular emphasis is given to the behavior of metallic nanodroplets, water nanodroplets and nanodroplets in polymer and metamaterial nanocomposites. The contributions of leading scientists and their research groups will provide readers with deeper insight into the chemical and physical mechanisms, properties, and potential applications of various nanodroplets.

Provides state-of-the-art coverage of a fascinating topic that has seen dramatic progress in recent years Includes contributions from famous research groups in the corresponding research areas Represents the first comprehensive reference devoted to recent advances in nanosized droplets science and technology Also serves as an ideal tutorial for graduate students

Inhalt

Preface.- Chapter 1: Generation of nanodroplets and Its applications.- Chapter 2: Nanodroplet formations in electrospun fibers of immiscible polymer blends and their effects on crystallization.- Chapter 3: Dynamic Study of Nanodroplet Nucleation and Growth using Transmitted Electrons in ESEM.- Chapter 4: Self-assembly of nanodroplets in nanocomposite materials in Nanodroplets Science and Technology.- Chapter 5: Ordering of Ga Nanodroplets by Low Energy Ion Sputtering.- Chapter 6: Atomistic mechanisms underlying the freezing behavior of metal nanodroplets.- Chapter 7: Dynamics of nanodroplets on structured surfaces.- Chapter 8: Atomistic simulation of nanodroplet collisions with a wall: Fragmentation and impact desolvation of macromolecules.- Chapter 9: Polymer Films with Nanosized Liquid Crystal Droplets: Extinction, Polarization, Phase, and Light Focusing.- Chapter 10: Clusters and nanoparticles in superfluid helium nanodroplets: fundamentals, challenges and perspectives.- Chapter 11: Reactive Dynamics in Confined Water by Reversed Micelles.- Chapter 12: Brownian deposition of nanodroplets and nanofibre growth via " vapor-liquid- solid" route.- Chapter 13: Water Nanodroplets: Molecular Drag and Self-assembly.- Chapter 14: Atomistic pseudopotential theory of droplet epitaxial GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots.- Chapter 15: Local Droplet Etching Nanoholes for Quantum Dots and Nanopillars.- Index.