ABSTRACT
The theoretical and experimental research developed in the last century, which was focused on the obtaining and characterization of nanostructure systems, witnessed signicant progress. The discovery of new materials, processes, and phenomena produced at a nanoscale size as well as the unprecedented development of novel experimental techniques offer new opportunities for the utilization of nanosystems and nanostructured materials in numerous important applications. In addition, the investigations devoted to nanostructured and nanocomposite materials have aroused a great interest for different current and emerging technologies, due to their special electrochemical properties (Karttunen et al. 2008). The complementary properties of the nanometer-sized particles, combined with those of the host material, permit the manufacture of multifunctional materials used for various applications in optics, food packaging, or medicine (Emamifar et al. 2011). In addition, nanocomposites are also applied in biological systems.
