Foundations for nanoscience and nanotechnology This book acts as a stepping stone to working in or understanding a new world in nanoscience and nanotechnology opening the door for students and practitioners to develop projects that depend on this understanding. The book can be used at three levels: as an introduction to the nanoscale world as a resource for understanding the foundations thereby allowing for moving forward to working in this area and as a source of recent research in the areas that illustrate foundational principles