One of the main challenges facing nanotechnology is the scale-up of currently used synthesis methods so as to reduce costs of production in the large scale. The presence of mathematical models and correlations, which enable calculation of morphology/size/properties directly from synthesis methods, will be very important.
Mustafa,
this is a good question and hopefully you will get a lot of answers.
Personally, I would say NO and YES. All chemists and materials scientists at the moment are trying to control size and morphology. The properties are largely depending on the latter.
Although many have managed to reproduce relyably a specific material, say TiO2 in terms of size and morphology, there is no general model whatsoever beyond the classical description by Ostwald and LaMer. "CONTROL" in most cases simply means reproducability but not prediction.
A recent paper: Article Particle-mediated nucleation and growth of solution-synthesi...
underlines this nicely.Best
AXEL
Dear Axel,
Thanks vary much for your very useful comments. I will have a look at the paper.
Mustafa
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