Nanostructured materials: synthesis, properties and applications

碳纳米管（将石墨烯片卷成纳米-十亿分之一米直径的管）和纳米颗粒（其尺寸在纳米范围内的颗粒）是更广泛的纳米结构材料（NSMs）家族中最科学令人兴奋和技术上最有前途的材料之一。碳纳米管（CNT）和纳米颗粒（NPs）是高度竞争的全球研究工作的核心，不仅继续揭示其非凡的性能/惊人的行为，而且还展示了其在各个领域（从纳米电子到纳米复合材料或药物递送纳米载体）的突破性应用潜力。开发新的合成方法，将允许更好地控制这些CNT/NP的纳米结构特征，实现其选择性纯化和组装的能力是仍然阻碍其充分潜力开发的挑战性问题之一。这些也是必不可少的访问CNT/NP的固有特性，以实现更好地理解其基本的纳米结构-性能关系。

Carbon nanotubes (a graphene sheet rolled-up into a nanometer -a billionth of a meter- diameter tube) and nanoparticles (particles of which size is in the nanometer range) are among the most scientifically-exciting and technologically-promising materials in the wider family of Nanostructured materials (NSMs). Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanoparticles (NPs) are at the heart of the highly-competitive worldwide research effort that continues not only to reveal their extraordinary properties/astonishing behaviors but also to demonstrate their potential for breakthrough applications in various fields (ranging from nanoelectronics to nanocomposites or drug delivery nanovectors). The development of novel synthesis methods that will permit a better control of the nanostructural characteristics of these CNTs/NPs, the ability to achieve their selective purification and their assembly are among the challenging issues that still hinder the exploitation of their full potential. These are also essential to access the intrinsic properties of CNTs/NPs in order to achieve better understanding of their fundamental nanostructure-properties relationship.