Osm Physics by Ashish

 Specific Features of Nanoscale Growth: Thermodynamics of Phase Transitions, triggering the Phase Transition, fundamentals of nucleation growth, Controlling Nucleation & Growth, Size Control of the Nanometric State, Aggregation, Stability of Colloidal, Dispersions, Spontaneous Condensation of Nanoparticles: Homogeneous Nucleation, Spinodal decomposition, Other undesirable Post Condensation Effects, Nanoparticles' morphology

Physical and Chemical Methods of Nanostructured Materials: Thermal evaporation, Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), DC/RF Magnetron Sputtering, Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), Inert Gas Condensation Technique (IGCT), Ball Milling, Electro-deposition, Spray Pyrolysis, Sol-Gel Process: Self-assembly, Metal Nanocrystals by Reduction. Solvothermal Synthesis, Photochemical Synthesis, Sonochemical Routes, Reverse Micelles and Micro emulsions, Combustion Method, Template Process, Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Metal Oxide Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD)

Nanodimensional Materials: OD, 1D, 2D structures, Size Effects, Fraction of Surface Atoms, specific Surface Energy and Surface Stress, Effect on the Lattice Parameter, Phonon Density of States, the General Methods available for the Synthesis of Nanostructures, precipitative, reactive, hydrothermal/ solvothermal methods, suitability of such methods for scaling, potential Uses