ABSTRACT
Nanostructured materials research has been very exciting in the last two decades or so. The impact of these researches has been tremendous and still growing at a fast rate in fundamental science and potential scientific and industrial applications. One can quote many exciting examples of nanomaterials such as colloidal nanocrystal, fullerenes like C60, C70, carbon nanotube, semiconductor nanowire, etc. The field is rapidly evolving and is now intricately interfacing many different scientific disciplines, from chemists to physicists, to materials scientists to engineers and to biologists [1]. The amount of literature published on this subject has been tremendous and still increasing significantly each year. The research on nanostructured materials is highly interdisciplinary because of different
synthetic methodologies involved as well as many different physical characterization methods used. Undoubtedly, chemists are playing a vital role since the synthesis of these materials is certainly about how to assemble atoms or molecules into nanostructures of desired coordination environment, size, and shape. Nevertheless, physicists and engineers are also not lagging behind and they are also into development of these materials.
