
Nanomaterials via Single-Source Precursors
Synthesis, Processing and Applications
- 1st Edition - February 21, 2022
- Editors: Allen W. Apblett, Andrew R. Barron, Aloysius F. Hepp
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 3 4 0 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 3 4 4 - 6
Nanomaterials via Single-Source Precursors: Synthesis, Processing and Applications presents recent results and overviews of synthesis, processing, characterization and applicati… Read more

Nanomaterials via Single-Source Precursors: Synthesis, Processing and Applications presents recent results and overviews of synthesis, processing, characterization and applications of advanced materials for energy, electronics, biomedicine, sensors and aerospace. A variety of processing methods (vapor, liquid and solid-state) are covered, along with materials, including metals, oxides, semiconductor, sulfides, selenides, nitrides, and carbon-based materials. Production of quantum dots, nanoparticles, thin films and composites are described by a collection of international experts. Given the ability to customize the phase, morphology, and properties of target materials, this “rational approach” to synthesis and processing is a disruptive technology for electronic, energy, structural and biomedical (nano)materials and devices.
The use of single-source chemical precursors for materials processing technology allows for intimate elemental mixing and hence production of complex materials at temperatures well below traditional physical methods and those involving direct combination of elements. The use of lower temperatures enables thin-film deposition on lightweight polymer substrates and reduces damage to complex devices structures such as used in power, electronics and sensors.
- Discusses new approaches to synthesis or single-source precursors (SSPs) and the concept of rational design of materials
- Includes materials processing of SSPs in the design of new materials and novel devices
- Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject (materials science and chemistry) as related to SSPs and the range of potential applications
Chemical Engineers
Part 1: Synthesis and characterization of single source precursors
1. Precursor design and impact of structure on the fabrication of materials
2. Structural studies of main group organometallic single source precursors for MOCVD
3. Dithiocarbamate complexes containing the pyrrole moiety for synthesis of sulfides
4. Theoretical studies of gas-phase decomposition of single source precursors
Part 2: Processing of single-source precursors into materials
5. Semiconductor clusters and their use as single source precursors to nanomaterials
6. Chalcogenoethers as convenient synthons for low-temperature solutionphase synthesis of metal chalcogenide nanocrystals
7. Synthesis of lanthanide chalcogenide nanoparticles
8. Organometallic single-source precursors to zinc oxide-based nanomaterials
9. Nickel chalcogenide thin films and nanoparticles from molecular single-source precursors
Part 3: Single-source precursor-derived materials for energy conversion and catalysis
10. Group 15/16 Single-Source Precursors for energy materials
11. Single-source precursors for main group metal sulfides and solar cell applications
12. Fabrication and catalytic applications of first row-transition metal and mixed-metal chalcogenides synthesized from single-source precursors
13. Single-source heterometallic precursors to MOCVD PdCu alloy films for energy and catalysis applications
Part 4: Materials from single-source precursors: Applications and practical considerations
15. Zinc acetate amine complexes: Singlesource precursors to zinc oxide films and nanoparticles; the influence of amines on photocatalysis
16. Coinage metal chalcogenides via single-source precursors
17. Commercialization of single-source precursors: Applications, intellectual property, and technology transfer
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 21, 2022
- Language: English
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Allen W. Apblett
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Andrew R. Barron
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Aloysius F. Hepp
Aloysius F. Hepp is Chief Technologist at Nanotech Innovations and an independent consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a PhD in Inorganic Photochemistry in 1983 from MIT and retired in December 2016 from the Photovoltaic & Electrochemical Systems Branch of the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland). He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University from 1992–3. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal in 1997. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Albany and Cleveland State University. Dr. Hepp has co-authored nearly 200 publications (including six patents) focused on processing of thin film and nanomaterials for I–III–VI solar cells, Li-ion batteries, integrated power devices and flight experiments, and precursors and spray pyrolysis deposition of sulfides and carbon nanotubes. He has co-edited twelve books on advanced materials processing, energy conversion and electronics, biomimicry, and aerospace technologies. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (MSSP) and is currently the chair of the International Advisory Board of MSSP, as well as serving on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Mater. Sci. and Engin. B and Heliyon. He has recently been appointed as Series Editor for the Vacuum and Thin-Film Deposition Technologies series and the Aerospace Fundamentals, Applications, and Exploration series.