Nanoscale science and technology is a young and burgeoning field that encompasses
nearly every discipline of science and engineering. With rapid advances in areas such as …

Few terms in the chemical and physical sciences have seen more use (and abuse) in recent
years than “nanoscience” or, even worse,“nanotechnology”. Why all the interest and hype …

Nanoscale science and technology, often referred to as" nanoscience" or" nanotechnology,"
are science and engineering enabled by our relatively new ability to manipulate and …

The potential for a varied range of applications makes a basic understanding of
nanotechnology important to us. The technological and industrial sectors including …

Nanotechnologies and nanosciences are a fast-developing field of research, which sit at the
point of convergence of several disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics, etc.) …

Science and technology ever seek to build structures of progressively smaller size. This
effort at miniaturization has finally reached the point where structures and materials can be …

Advances in physics, molecular biology, and computer science are converging on the
capacity to control, with molecular precision, the structure and function of matter. These …

Nanoscience is not just physics, chemistry, engineering, or biology, but rather an integration
of all of these disciplines. The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary text of its kind …

In 1986 Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the
scanning tunneling microscope and discovering that it can image individual surface atoms …

With the advent of the atomic force microscope (AFM) came an extremely valuable analytical
resource and technique useful for the qualitative and quantitative surface analysis with sub …