A colloidal solution is a uniform dispersion of two completely different types of components—particles or droplets of one phase, called the solute, in a second, typically liquid, phase, called the ...

Particles are of a colloidal size if their size falls in the range of 1 to 1000nm. A colloid is system whereby colloidal particles are suspended in a continuous medium. They are stable and do not ...

IT is stated in the preface that this book has passed through three large editions in Germany. We are inclined to think that such success was due more to the fact that it was first in the field as a ...

Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) are very attractive as optical gain media owing to their ease of fabrication, wide size-dependent colour tunability and spectrally narrow gain profiles 1,2,3 ...