# Nanomaterial guides: templates > One-page guides to making and measuring nanomaterials: six wet-chemical routes, growth from seeds, nucleation and ripening, physical and gas-phase routes, microfluidics and electrospinning, shape control, size and charge in liquid, composition by STEM and ICP-MS, nanomedicine, tests, catalysts and devices, and a whole project in pictograms. Every panel is a live generator; every caption and number is quoted from the cited papers. URL: https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides 11 templates. All templates: https://www.labcanvas.com/templates - [Six wet-chemical routes to nanoparticles](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/six-wet-chemical-routes-nanoparticles) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/six-wet-chemical-routes-nanoparticles.md)): Six wet-chemical syntheses on one page, each drawn step by step: citrate reduction of gold (Turkevich), the Brust–Schiffrin two-phase synthesis of thiol-protected gold, silver nanowires by the polyol route, hot injection against heat-up for semiconductor nanocrystals, co-precipitation of magnetite and reverse micelles. The steps and numbers are the ones the cited papers report. - [Nanorods, nanowires and nanocages from seeds](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/nanorods-nanowires-nanocages-seeds) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/nanorods-nanowires-nanocages-seeds.md)): Growth from seeds in six panels: seed-mediated gold nanorods step by step and one rod with CTAB and silver on its sides, a penta-twinned silver nanowire capped by PVP, and galvanic replacement turning silver nanocubes into nanoboxes, nanocages and nanoframes. Each caption quotes the cited papers. - [How nanoparticles nucleate, grow and ripen](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/how-nanoparticles-nucleate-grow-ripen) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/how-nanoparticles-nucleate-grow-ripen.md)): Six ways the sizes of nanoparticles are set, drawn as particles and arrows: burst nucleation and diffusion-controlled growth, seeds that form first in the Turkevich synthesis and then grow, Ostwald ripening, oriented attachment, digestive ripening and size-selective precipitation afterwards. Each caption quotes the cited papers. - [Physical and gas-phase routes to nanoparticles](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/physical-gas-phase-routes-nanoparticles) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/physical-gas-phase-routes-nanoparticles.md)): Six physical and gas-phase processes for making or coating particles: laser ablation in liquid and its plasma-to-colloid sequence, the temperature zones of flame spray pyrolysis, a magnetron gas-aggregation cluster source with a mass filter, spray drying of a droplet into a glassy microparticle, and the trimethylaluminium–water cycle of atomic layer deposition. Each caption quotes the cited papers. - [Microfluidic synthesis and electrospinning](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/microfluidic-synthesis-electrospinning) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/microfluidic-synthesis-electrospinning.md)): Continuous processes in six panels: hydrodynamic flow focusing, a staggered herringbone mixer, glass-capillary 3D focusing and droplet microfluidics for nanoparticle synthesis, then the electrospinning set-up and its four steps from Taylor cone to fibre mat. Each caption quotes the cited papers. - [Shape control of metal nanocrystals](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/shape-control-metal-nanocrystals) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/shape-control-metal-nanocrystals.md)): Why metal nanocrystals come out as cubes, cuboctahedra, octahedra, bipyramids, decahedra, icosahedra, wires or plates: single-crystal seeds take the shape set by the growth rates along ⟨111⟩ and ⟨100⟩, capping agents such as PVP, bromide and citrate pick the facet that is exposed, and twinned or faulted seeds grow into bipyramids, multiply twinned particles, wires and plates. After Xia et al. 2009. - [Measuring nanoparticles in liquid: size and charge](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/measuring-nanoparticles-liquid-size-charge) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/measuring-nanoparticles-liquid-size-charge.md)): Six principles for characterising a colloid: dynamic light scattering and what its hydrodynamic diameter includes, nanoparticle tracking analysis, the electrical double layer and the zeta potential, the electrophoresis cell that measures it, and small-angle X-ray scattering. Instruments and principles only, with every caption quoted from the cited papers. - [What nanoparticles are made of: STEM, ICP-MS and magnetometry](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/what-nanoparticles-are-made-stem-icp-ms-magnetometry) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/what-nanoparticles-are-made-stem-icp-ms-magnetometry.md)): Six principles for finding what nanoparticles are made of and how their elements are arranged: preparing a TEM grid, HAADF-STEM with its Z-contrast, EDS detectors around the specimen, ICP-MS from acid digestion to the plasma, single-particle ICP-MS and the vibrating-sample magnetometer. Instruments and principles only, with every caption quoted from the cited papers. - [Nanoparticles in medicine: heating, imaging, targeting and killing bacteria](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/nanoparticles-medicine-heating-imaging-targeting-killing-bacteria) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/nanoparticles-medicine-heating-imaging-targeting-killing-bacteria.md)): Six nanomedicine principles on one page: photothermal therapy with gold nanorods, magnetic hyperthermia with iron oxide, T1 and T2 MRI contrast agents, upconversion nanoparticles for imaging deep in tissue, theranostic particles that leave leaky tumour vessels, and antibacterial silver. Schematics only, with every caption quoted from the cited papers. - [Nanoparticles in tests, catalysts and devices](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/nanoparticles-tests-catalysts-devices) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/nanoparticles-tests-catalysts-devices.md)): Six applications of nanoparticles outside medicine: colorimetric detection with oligonucleotide–gold probes, the lateral flow strip, plasmonic hot-electron photocatalysis, the three-way catalytic converter, quantum-dot colour conversion on blue micro-LEDs and mineral sunscreens of TiO₂ and ZnO. Schematics only, with every caption quoted from the cited papers. - [From synthesis to application: a nanoparticle workflow in pictograms](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/synthesis-application-nanoparticle-workflow-pictograms) ([Markdown](https://www.labcanvas.com/templates/nanomaterial-guides/synthesis-application-nanoparticle-workflow-pictograms.md)): A nanoparticle project in 24 editable pictograms: six ways to make the particles, six steps to clean them up and choose their surface, six ways to measure them and six places they are put to work. Every pictogram is a live generator that can be restyled flat, outline or 3D in your colours; the details describe each stage with its references.