Title

• Mechanisms underlying the growth of inorganic nanoparticles in the liquid phase  
  Liberato Manna and Stefan Kudera

    1

• Organic chemistry principles in the preparation of inorganic nanostructures  
  Georg Garnweitner1 and Markus Niederberger

    55

• Use of ionic liquids, liquid-liquid interfaces and other novel methods for the synthesis of inorganic nanocrystals  
  Kanishka Biswas and C. N. R. Rao

    79

• Sonochemical synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles  
  Muthupandian Ashokkumar

    107

• Wet-chemistry routes to ultrafine magnetic particles  
  Daniela Caruntu, Gabriel Caruntu and Charles J. O’Connor

    133

• Synthetic protocols to size and shape controlled noble metal nanoparticles  
  Nikhil R. Jana and Tarasankar Pal

    185

• Wet-chemical synthesis of mono- and bi-metallic nanoparticles  
  Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal

    219

• Synthesis of carbon-supported metal and alloy nanoparticles  
  Ting He

    253

• Liquid-phase synthesis of titanium oxide nanostructures  
  Xiaobo Chen and Samuel S. Mao

    275

• Synthesis of nanocomposites based on semiconductor, oxide, and metal materials  
  Archana Kar, Yon Sun Sohn and Vaidyanathan Ravi Subramanian

    305

• Fluorescent core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals  
  Peter Reiss

    345

• Fluorescent rare-earth doped oxide nanocrystals  
  Amitava Patra

    369

• Photoluminescent rare-earth based lamellar organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures  
  Nicola Pinna and Mohamed Kamaoui

    391

• Synthetic strategies to multi-material hybrid nanocrystals  
  Gianvito Caputo, Raffaella Buonsanti, Marianna Casavola and Pantaleo Davide Cozzoli

    407