Table 2.
Published hard particle nanocompounds (see Chart below)
| [H:1:H-1]1 | Kiely et al. (2000), Shevchenko et al. (2006a, b, 2007), Chen et al. (2007), DeVries et al. (2007), Perepichka and Rosei (2007), and Su et al. (2007) |
| [H-3:H-1]2 | Cozzoli et al. (2006) and Shevchenko et al. (2006a, b) |
| [H-4:H-1]3 | Haremza et al. (2002) and Hirsch et al. (2003) |
| [H-6:H-1]4 | Azamian et al. (2002) |
| [H-2:H-2]5 | Xie et al. (2008) |
| [H-3:H-2]6 | Redl et al. (2003) and Burda et al. (2005) |
| [H-4:H-2]7 | Koole et al. (2008) |
| [H-6:H-2]8 | Ravindran (2003) |
| [H-2:H-3]9 | El-Sayed et al. (2003) |
| [H-4:H-3]10 | Bridot et al. (2007) |
| [H-2:H-4]11 | Koole et al. (2008) |
| [H-2:H-6]12 | Banerjee and Wong (2002) and Haremza et al. (2002) |
| [H-3:H-6]13 | Banerjee and Wong (2002), Haremza et al. (2002), and Ravindran et al. (2003) |
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We derive the nanocompound nomenclature in this report by describing the combination of [Hn] elements (left to right horizontally) with [Hn] elements (vertically in descending order). A more systematic nomenclature based on these principles that describe stoichiometry, etc., should be expected to evolve from these basic principles
Superscript numbers for nanocompounds [H-n:H-n]1–13 above are keyed to literature references and correspond to the bold numbers noted in the nanocompound grid (Table 2)