The Colloid Chemical Approach to Nanostructured Materials

Nanocrystalline particulate films, dispersions of nanoparticles in monolayers in which the inter‐particle distances can be controlled, and systems containing nanoparticles incorporated between the head groups of organic thin films (see Fig.) produced using a wet colloid‐chemical approach are reviewed. Size‐quantized metallic, magnetic, and semiconducting particles are cosnidered and the development of nanostructured devices discussed .