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Conventional Properties. Quantum Size Effects. A chemist likes to keep track of material in grams or in moles, where a 1 mole = 6 x 10 23 atoms But how many atoms do you really need … for gold to become gold-colored ? for iron to become magnetic ? for water to flow like a liquid ?.
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Quantum Size Effects • A chemist likes to keep track of material in grams or in moles, where a 1 mole = 6 x 1023 atoms • But how many atoms do you really need … • for gold to become gold-colored ? • for iron to become magnetic ? • for water to flow like a liquid ? 1 < ? < 6 x 1023
Colloidal Nanocrystal Shape and Size Control: The Case of Cobalt Victor F. Puntes, * Kannan M. Krishnan, A. Paul Alivisatos We show that a relatively simple approach for controlling the colloidal synthesis of anisotropic cadmium selenide semiconductor nanorods can be extended to the size-controlled preparation of magnetic cobalt nanorods as well as spher- ically shaped nanocrystals. This approach helps define a minimum feature set needed to separately control the sizes and shapes of nanocrystals. The resulting cobalt nanocrystals produce interesting two- and three-dimensional super- structures, including ribbons of nanorods. Cobalt at the Nanoscale R EPORTS
“Trapped” Electrons Copper at the Nanoscale 1 nanometer = 1 nm One Atom IBM Research, 1992
giga mega kilo milli micro nano pico 1,000,000,000 1,000,000 1,000 1 0.001 0.000,001 0.000,000,001 0.000,000,000,001 distance to moon U.S.A. U.C.I. you and me pencil lead blood cell nanoscience smaller than atoms Factors of One Thousand meter meter meter meter meter meter meter meter meter = meter = meter = meter = meter = meter = meter = meter =
0.1 m 10 um = 0.00001 m 1 km = 1000 m 1 nm = 0.000000001 m 10 Mm = 10,000,000 m Size and Scale Factors of 10,000
Quantum Size Effects • A chemist likes to keep track of material in grams or in “moles”, where a mole equals 6 x 1023 atoms • But how many atoms do you really need … • for gold to become gold-colored ? • for iron to become magnetic ? • for water to flow like a liquid ? 1 < ? < 6 x 1023
What’s the Difference? Quantization “Quantized” Energy Levelsonly certain properties are allowed at each sizeDE = hf = hc/l
What’s the Difference? Quantization Only certain energies are allowed: DE = hf = hc/l, where l is a wavelength scale