Abstract
Nanotechnology has shaped the research and development in various disciplines of science and technology by redefining the interdisciplinary research. It has put the materials science at the forefront of technology by allowing the researchers to engineer materials with properties ranging from electronics to biomedical by using materials as diverse as ceramics to just plain carbon. These exceptional properties are achieved by minimizing the dimension of particles in such smaller domains that the boundary between the individual atoms, ions or cluster of particles is very small. This results in a change in conventional properties of particles from continuum physics to quantum physics and hence the properties of nanoparticles can be tuned based upon their size, shape and dimensionality. One of the most apparent changes upon decreasing the particle size is the increase in surface area to volume ratio. Thus nanoparticles possess greater tendency to interact with the environment in which they are present and similarly the environment can affect the properties of nanomaterials. The environment here is described as the immediate solid, liquid or gaseous material in immediate contact with the external surface of the nanoparticles. In order to control the physico-chemical properties of nanoparticles it is important to control the surface characteristics of nanoparticles and its immediate environment. The current thesis emphasizes the role of tuning the surface of nanoparticles and/or the environment around the nanoparticles to control their properties.
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Graduation Date
2010
Semester
Summer
Advisor
Seal, Sudipta
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department
Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003189
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003189
Language
English
Release Date
August 2010
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering and Computer Science -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Karakoti, Ajay, "Tuning The Properties Of Nanomaterials As Function Of Surface And Environment" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1570.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1570