ABSTRACT

Nanotechnology is one of the most important growth areas of this century. Nanoscience, the science underpinning nanotechnology, is a multidisciplinary subject covering atomic, molecular and solid state physics, and much of chemistry. Nanostructures are known to exhibit novel and improved material properties, fundamentally because the physical and c

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction and Historical Perspective

chapter 2|12 pages

Classical Physics at the Nanoscale

chapter 3|30 pages

Brief Review of Quantum Mechanics

chapter 4|12 pages

2 MOLECULES AND MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS

chapter 4|9 pages

3 FROM ATOMS TO SOLID MATERIALS

chapter 4|8 pages

4 FROM MOLECULES TO SUPRAMOLECULES

chapter 5|16 pages

Surfaces at the Nanoscale

chapter 6|32 pages

Low-Dimensional Nanostructures

chapter 8|42 pages

Nanotools and Nanofabrication

chapter 9|10 pages

Future Trends