Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology

Advanced Nano Materials

 Nanomaterial or nanostructured materials are characterised into nanocomposite, nanofoam, nanoporous material and nanocrystalline materials depending on the phases of matter. The inorganic nanomaterials such as nanowires, nanorods, quantum dots are used in optoelectronics because of their optical and electrical properties that depend on their size and shape. These nanomaterials are potentially used in organic materials based optoelectronic devices which find its application in Organic solar cells, OLEDs etc. The functioning of these devices is ruled by photo induced processes such as electron transfer and energy transfer. Hence it is necessary to have enhanced understanding of photoinduced processes in organic/inorganic nanomaterial composite for their application in optoelectronic devices. Nanoparticles isalso been used as chemical catalyst which are very good adsorbents. Nanofabrication is a significant subfield of nanotechnology associated with energy. The method of producing and designing devices atnanoscale is called as Nanofabrication. The nanofabricated devices help in capturing, storing and transfer of energy in a better way to meet the existing energy technologies, thus utilized in the development of consumer products. The benefits include increased heating and lightning efficiency, improved electrical storage capacity and reduction in pollution which enables the capital investment in the nanotechnology research.