Introduction to Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials have grown over the years globally associated to their advancement in the past decades and remarkable impact to the various applications. This chapter discussed the properties of the nanomaterials namely electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and antibacterial properties. Subsequently, the types of nanomaterials selected to be discussed in this book chapter are carbon, inorganic, organic, and composite based nanomaterials. The latter part of the book chapter shall focus on the classification of nanomaterials from zero dimensional to three dimensional and the synthesis of nanomaterials typically on bottom-up and top-downapproach.