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This comprehensive tutorial guide to silicon nanomaterials spans from fundamental properties, growth mechanisms, and processing of nanosilicon to electronic device, energy conversion and storage, biomedical, and environmental applications. It also presents core knowledge with basic mathematical equations, tables, and graphs in order to provide the reader with the tools necessary to understand the latest technology developments.
Contents
Low-Dimensional Structures 
One-dimensional porous silicon photonic crystals 
Two-dimensional silicon 
Two-dimensional silicon nanosheets 
Nanocrystalline silicon thin films 
Fundamentals of silicene 
Silicene nanoribbons 
Hexagonal honeycomb silicon: Silicene 
Clusters, Nanoparticles, and Quantum Dots 
Fluorescent silicon clusters and nanoparticles 
Silicon nanoparticles from pulsed laser ablation 
Silicon nanoparticles via pulsed laser ablation in liquid 
Silicon nanoparticles with zincblende structure 
Silicon nanocrystals from plasma synthesis
Silicon nanocrystals in water 
Surface-engineered silicon nanocrystals 
Silicon nanocrystals doped with boron and phosphorous 
Organically capped silicon nanocrystals 
Near-infrared luminescent colloidal silicon nanocrystals 
Hydrogen-terminated silicon quantum dots 
Nanowires and Nanotubes 
Silicon nanowires as electron field emitters 
Silicon nanowires for Li-based battery anode applications 
Coated silicon nanowires for battery applications 
Ion-implanted silicon nanowires 
Si nanowires for evolutionary nanotechnology 
Fundamentals of silicon nanotubes 
Amorphous silicon nanotubes 
Nanotubular-structured porous silicon
Porous silicon nanotube arrays