Nanoscience and technology
Subtitle: a collection of reviews from Nature journals
By: edited by Peter Rodgers ; with an introduction by James Heath
Publisher: World Scientific; Nature Pub. Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Singapore; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9789814282680
Notes: "This book brings together 35 review and progress articles from eight different Nature journals"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Challenges and opportunities for nanoscience and technology / James R. Heath; title: Nanomaterials and nanostructures. Progress towards monodisperse single-walled carbon nanotubes / Mark C. Hersam; title: The rise of graphene / A. K. Geim & K. S. Novoselov; title: Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films / R. Ramesh & Nicola A. Spaldin; title: Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles / R. Tenne; title: The role of interparticle and external forces in nanoparticle assembly / Younjin Min ...[et al.]; title: Complex thermoelectric materials / G. Jeffrey Snyder & Eric S. Toberer; title: Solid-state nanopores / Cees Dekker; title: Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces / Johannes V. Barth, Giovanni Costantini & Klaus Kern; title: Molecular machines and devices. Making molecular machines work / Wesley R. Browne & Ben L. Feringa; title: Molecular logic and computing / A. Prasanna del Silva & Seiichi Uchiyama; title: Harnessing biological motors to engineer systems for nanoscale transport and assembly / Anita Goel & Viola Vogel; title: Designed DNA molecules: principles and applications of molecular nanotechnology / Anne Condon; title: DNA nanomachines / Jonathan Bath & Andrew J. Turberfield; title: Nanoelectronics. Nanoelectronics from the bottom up / Wei Lu & Charles M. Lieber; title: The emergence of spin electronics in data storage / Claude Chappert, Albert Fert & Frédéric Nguyen Van Dau; title: Nanoionics-based resistive switching memories / Rainer Waser & Masakazu Aono; title: Technology and metrology of new electronic materials and devices / Eric M. Vogel; title: Carbon-based electronics / Phaedon Avouris, Zhihong Chen & Vasili Perebeinos; title: Electron transport in molecular junctions / N.J. Tao; title: Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets / Lapo Bogani & Wolfgang Wernsdorfer; title: Nanophotonics. Light in tiny holes / C. Genet & T.W. Ebbesen; title: Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding / Surbhi Lal, Stephan Link & Naomi J. Halas; title: Semiconductor quantum light sources / Andrew J. Shields; title: Biomimetics of photonic nanostructures / Andrew R. Parker & Helen E. Townley; title: Nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine. Nanoparticle therapeutics: an emerging treatment modality for cancer / Mark E. Davis, Zhuo (Georgia) Chen & Dong M. Shin; title: Neuroscience nanotechnology: progress, opportunities and challenges / Gabriel A. Silva; title: The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing / Daniel J. Müller & Yves F. Dufrêne; title: Immunological properties of engineered nanomaterials / Marina A. Dobrovolskaia & Scott E. McNeil; title: Injectable nanocarriers for biodetoxification / Jean-Christophe Leroux; title: Selected applications. Applications of dip-pen nanolithography / Khalid Salaita, Yuhuang Wang & Chad a. Mirkin; title: Biosensing with plasmonic nanosensors / Jeffrey N. Anker ...[et al.] Materials for electrochemical capacitors / Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi; title: Future lab-on-a-chip technologies for interrogating individual molecules / Harold Craighead; title: Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades / Mark A. Shannon ...[et al.].