Control of the Size and Shape of Nanoparticles

The use of dispersed media to synthetize microparticles in “situ” has made considerable progress in the last few years: Reverse micelles[1], Langmuir-Blodgett films[2], zeolites[3], vesicles[4], glass matrices and sol-gel methods[5].Semiconductor nanocrystals present quantum confinement effects, called Q-dots[6]. To control the size and the shape of nanoparticles reverse and normal micelles, bicontinuous and lamellar solutions have been used.