Introduction to Nanoscience

✍ Scribed by Gabor L. Hornyak, Joydeep Dutta, H.F. Tibbals, Anil Rao

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 852
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tomorrow’s nanoscientist will have a truly interdisciplinary and nano-centric education, rather than, for example, a degree in chemistry with a specialization in nanoscience. For this to happen, the field needs a truly focused and dedicated textbook. This full-color masterwork is such a textbook. It introduces the nanoscale along with the societal impacts of nanoscience, then presents an overview of characterization and fabrication methods. The authors systematically discuss the chemistry, physics, and biology aspects of nanoscience, providing a complete picture of the challenges, opportunities, and inspirations posed by each facet before giving a brief glimpse at nanoscience in action: nanotechnology. This book is written to provide a companion volume to Fundamentals of Nanotechnology.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Authors
Section 1: Perspectives
1 Introduction
2 Societal Implications of Nano
Section 2: Nanotools
3 Characterization Methods
4 Fabrication Methods
Section 3: Physics: Properties and Phenomena
5 Materials, Structure, and the Nanosurface
6 Energy at the Nanoscale
7 The Material Continuum
8 Nanothermodynamics
Section 4: Chemistry: Synthesis and Modification
9 Carbon-Based Nanomaterials
10 Chemical Interactions at the Nanoscale
11 Supramolecular Chemistry
12 Chemical Synthesis and Modification of Nanomaterials
Section 5: Natural and Bionanoscience
13 Natural Nanomaterials
14 Biomolecular Nanoscience
Index