Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Engineering

Track 15: Nanocluster and Nanoscience

Nanoclusters represent a gaggle of nanoparticles having a minimum of one nanoscale dimension and size distribution within a narrow range. They may be composed of the single atom of an element or combinations of atoms of different atom in stoichiometric ratios. The forces that hold these atoms together can be covalent, ionic, metallic, van der Waals forces, or hydrogen bonds. This difference in sorts of bonding forces involved is that the basis of differentiation among the various clusters. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and may be used across all the opposite science fields, like chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering.