Placing specialists at the forefront of the nanoscience revolution, this reference identifies current challenges and development paths sure to influence fields ranging from materials and surface science, chemistry, and biomedicine to computer technology, information processing, and mechanical, optical, and electrical engineering-examining the design, application, and utilization of devices, techniques, and technologies critical to research at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels ranging from 1-100 nanometers.

Select topics from the Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology:

• Aerosol Nanoparticles: Theory of Coagulation
• Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging Artifacts
• Biological and Chemical Weapon Decontamination by Nanoparticles
• Bionanoparticles
• Carbon Nanotubes: Electronic Properties
• Core/Shell Nanospheres, Hollow Capsules, and Bottles
• DNA Hybridization: Electronic Control
• Fullerenes: Topology and Structure
• Functionalization of Silica Surfaces
• Magnetic Nanoparticles: Preparation and Properties
• Molecular Computing Machine
• Molecular Switches
• Moore's Law: Performance and Disspation
• Nanodiamonds
• Nanofiltration Separations
• Nanomaterials: New Trends
• Nanostructured Catalysts
• Nanostructured Ultrastrong Materials
• Near-Field Microscopy Techniques
• Optical Nanosensors and Nano-biosensors
• Polymer Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery: Synthesis and Processing
• Quantum Dot Lasers
• Self-Assembly of Nanocolloidal Gold Films

Reviews

"This Encyclopaedia is being assembled at an early stage in the field's development and should bring together the key advances in a coherently organised framework. It almost certainly will help by publishing detailed reviews of the advances in every corner of the new field [and] will help to build the multidisciplinary network which will help catalyse the advances which will promise to help us to continue and improve our lives in the future."
Sir Harry Kroto
Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry (1996)
University of Sussex
Brighton, United Kingdom


"…the most comprehensive and detailed review of all the major developments that have characterized the emergence of these important fields. It will form an indispensable reference work for scientists and engineers in academia and industry for years to come….recommend[ed]."
Dr. Donald Fitzmaurice
Department of Chemistry University College
Dublin, Ireland


"…The Encyclopedia contains carefully selected, top-quality contributions, communications, and research news at the cutting edge of the chemistry and physics of functional materials."
Professor Lszl Guczi
Chemical Research Center Institute of Isotopes and Surface Chemistry
Budapest, Hungary