Development of Competitive Nanotechnologies for Solution of Challenges in Photocatalysis, Electronics and Composites Fabrication

The objectives of this work were to develop competitive technologies which will allow: to exclude some of the drawbacks of the surface treatment and metallization methods having existed so far; to produce films with the prescribed properties; to substitute adequately precious metals with non-precious ones; to exclude the usage of toxic substances. One of the objectives of the work was the development a reliable method of nanoand microminiaturization of devices. The present work contains also new data on the proposed nanotechnologies for fabrication of fine-grained powder-like particles, films, bulk materials, nanocomposites, devices for microelectronics, nanoelectronics, photocatalysis and photonics. The nanotechnologies using the electroless deposition, described in the work, are much more advantageous and simpler than other expensive and complicated methods of nanotechnology and allow us to fabricate competitive photocatalysts by means of deposition of nanocrystals having specified properties on high-dispersive powder-like semiconductors and other devices.