内容提要 ：过去的几十年里，纳米结构新颖的系统性能在自然科学的各个领域中得到广泛认可，新技术的不断发展吸引了各个领域的科学家投入到与之相关的研究中。要全面实现纳米科学与技术的巨大应用前景，面临的重要挑战就是寻找在原子尺度上调制排列结构的方法以及构造原子、介观、宏观各尺度层次的材料。本书包含了大量通过化学、仿生学途径并运用自组织机制合成纳米材料并产生不同尺度的组件的方法。本书介绍了纳米结构自组装领域从基础理论到相关应用的大量令人鼓舞的最新进展，可供物理学、化学、生物学、工程和材料科学领域中科研人员和研究生参考。
目录 ：
Preface
1 Self-Assembled Si1-xGex Dots and Islands
Jean-Marc Baribeau，Nelson L.Rowell，and David J.Lockwood
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Si1-xGex Island Growth
1.3 Stacked Si1-x Islands
1.4 Engineering of Si1-xGex Islands
1.5 Applications of Si1-xGex Islands and Dots
1.6 Summarty and Future Prospects
References
2 Synthersis of Titania Nanocrystals：Application for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Motonari Adachi，Yusuke Murata，Fumin Wang，and Jinting Jiu
2.1 Formation of Titania Nanocrystals by Surfactant-Assisted Methods
2.2 Application of TiO2 Netword of Single-Crystalline Nanowires for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
2.3 Summary
References
3 Soft Synthesis of Inorganic Nanorods，Nanowires，and Nanotubes
Shu-Hong Yu and Yi-Tai Qian
3.1 Introduction
3.2 An Overview：Emerging Synthetic Routes for the Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Nanocrystals
3.3 Soft Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Nanocrystals
3.4 Summary and Outlook
References
4 Assembly of Zeolites and Crystalline Molecular Sieves
Jennifer L.Anthony and Mark E.Davis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Thermodynamics of Synthesis Processes
4.3 Kinetics of Synthesis Processes
4.4 Assembly Processes
4.5 Components of Synthesis
4.6 Chirality：Can a "Designer"Zeolite Be Synthesized?
4.7 Summary
References
5 Molecular Imprinting by the Surface Sol-Gel Process：Templated Nanoporous Metal Oxide Thim Films for Molecualr Recognition
Seung-Woo Lee and Toyoki Kunitake
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Surface Sol-Gel Process
5.3 Molecular Imprinting in Amorphous Metal Oxide Films
5.4 Practical Potentials
5.5 Unsolved Problems and Future Prospects
References
6 Fabricatin，Characterization，and Applications of Template-Synthesized Nanotubes and Nanotube Membranes
7 Synthesis and Characterization of Core-Shell Structured Metals
8 Cobalt Nanocrystals Organized in Mesoscopic Scale
9 Synthesis and Applications of Highly Ordered Anodic
Index