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This introductory chapter gives relevant historical information about nanoparticles and the attempts to define the nanoparticle size (1–1,000 nm), as well as their most important general properties, which vary with size: surface area, optical properties, uniformity, fictionalisation, quantum confinement and other fractal-type characteristics.
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This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS—UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0762.
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Strambeanu, N., Demetrovici, L., Dragos, D., Lungu, M. (2015). Nanoparticles: Definition, Classification and General Physical Properties. In: Lungu, M., Neculae, A., Bunoiu, M., Biris, C. (eds) Nanoparticles' Promises and Risks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11728-7_1
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