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8 Biannual Conference on Chemistry - CHEM 08

Nanochemistry – a chemical aporoach to nano materials and their
inorganic applications
Gehad Genidy Mohamed
Chemistry Department-Faculty of Science-Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

ABSTRACT
Nanotechnology is a promising field of interdisciplinary research. It opens up a wide
array of opportunities and new horizons in various fields like water treatment,
medicine, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and agriculture. The potential uses and benefits
of nanotechnology are enormous. In recent years, significant research efforts have been
made for developing new materials on the length scale of approximately 1 - 100 nm.
These nanomaterials have become the focus of the investigations currently due to its
rule for progressing industry and technology. There are many methods which are
related to the synthesis of various shapes of nanomaterials such as belts, wires, tubes
and rods. These methods are vapor-solid, vapor-liquid-solid and hydrothermal process.
However most of these methods involve many complex steps and expensive
equipment. Since simple and cost effective routes to synthesize nanomaterials by
utilization of cheap, nontoxic and environmentally being precursors are still the key
issues. So in the present work we will review how we can control the preparation of
nanomaterials through simple, cost effective and easy methods to obtain nanomaterials
with required properties for different applications. In the last decade, research activities
on carbon nanotubes, inorganic nanowires, quantum dots, and nanoparticles have
increased exponentially, as evidenced by the large number of papers in peer-reviewed
journals and conference presentations across the world. Among the various
nanomaterials, inorganic nanoparticles assume special importance because they are
easier and cheaper to synthesize in the laboratory and to mass produce than some other
nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes, for example. It is for this reason also that they can
be more readily integrated into applications.

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