Nanostructured materials: synthesis, properties and applications

碳纳米管（石墨烯片卷成纳米——直径为10亿分之一米的管）和纳米粒子（粒子的大小在纳米范围内）是纳米结构材料（nsm）家族中最令人兴奋和最有技术前景的材料。碳纳米管（CNTs）和纳米颗粒（NPs）是全球高度竞争的研究工作的核心，不仅继续揭示其非凡的性质/惊人的行为，而且还展示了它们在各个领域（从纳米电子学到纳米复合材料或药物递送纳米载体）的突破性应用潜力。新的合成方法的发展将允许更好地控制这些CNTs/NPs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发挥潜力的挑战性问题之一。为了更好地理解其基本的纳米结构-性能关系，这些对于了解CNTs/NPs的内在性质也是必不可少的。

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.