Nanoparticles From Theory to Application

Therefore, small molecular clusters, mainly of the organometallic type, are not considered further. It is also no longer helpful to strictly distinguish clusters from colloids. In general, we call compounds of interest nanoparticles, which implies that predominantly they do not exhibit classical bulk properties, while, on the other hand, differing from molecules in so far as they in some way represent pieces of matter related to the bulk material they originate from.