Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and some physical principles
  • Microscopy--nanoscopy
  • Synthesis
  • Nanocrystals--nanowires--nanolayers
  • Carbon nanostructures--tubes, graphene, fullerenes, wave-particle duality
  • Nanocrystalline materials
  • Nanomechanics--nanophotonics--nanofluidics
  • Nanomagnetism
  • Nanotechnology for computers, memories, and hard disks
  • Nanochemistry--from supramolecular chemistry to chemistry on the nanoscale, catalysis, renewable energy, batteries, and environmental protection
  • Biology on the nanoscale
  • Nanomedicine.