This is the first comprehensive book on fine particle synthesis that ranges from fundamental principles to the most advanced concepts, highlighting monodispersed particles from nanometers to micrometers. Describes mechanisms of formation and specific characteristics of each family of compounds while identifying problems and proposing solutions Offering a systematically organized review of the subject and including recent remarkable developments, Fine Particles contains subsections that analyze growth processes, characterize products, and delineate physical and chemical results based on causality arranges organic and inorganic materials according to their chemical composition covers forced hydrolysis and hydrolysis of metal and silicon alkoxides in homogeneous solutions details controlled double jet and Ostwald ripening processes examines emulsion and dispersion polymerization discusses surface modification of polymer and inorganic particles considers the formation of magnetic particles, fine composites, and nanocrystalline luminous materials and more Replete with 1700 references and over 600 photographs, drawings, tables, and equations, Fine Particles is useful for physical, surface, colloid, inorganic, organic, polymer, medicinal, and analytical chemists; chemical engineers; ceramicists; materials scientists; metallurgists; pharmacists; biochemists; biophysicists; biotechnologists; biomaterials specialists; and graduate students in these disciplines.

Monodispersed Particles, Second Edition, covers all aspects of monodispersed particles, including inorganic and polymer particles and their composites. The book consists of four parts: fundamentals, preparation, analyses, and applications. Specifically, the fundamental part covers the theoretical insight into the surface energy of particles and its application to the formulation of the new theories of nucleation, growth and habit formation of monodispersed particles. In addition, the theories of recrystallization and solid-solution formation are introduced. These fundamental theories are applied to the precise control of their size, size distribution, shape, internal structure, and composition, leading to the design of diverse monodispersed functional particles widely used in basic science and modern industry. This second edition is fully updated and revised, detailing new theories and recent progress in the field of nanoparticles, including advanced nucleation theory, arrested growth mechanism for monodispersed nanoparticles, and energetics of habit formation. Additionally, the text covers in-depth insights into the anisotropic growth of Au and Ag nanoparticles, the formation mechanisms of polycrystalline Au spheres, iron oxide nanoparticles in heat-up and hot-injection processes, amorphous TiO2 spheres in a sol-gel system, anatase TiO2 in a gel-sol system and their shape control, AgCl nanoparticles in a reverse micelle system, organic-inorganic hybrid liquid crystals, and extensive biomedical applications.