Nanotechnologies

Nanotechnologies: Concepts, Processing and Applicationsdescribes and explains how nanotechnologies have entered oureveryday lives through scientific and industrial applications withthe emphasis placed on the new perspectives in various fieldsrelated to societal problems. This book details how successivediscoveries of new nanocarbon structures along with progress indifferent microscopy techniques have caused nanomaterials to takeon an increasingly important role in electronics, electrochemicalenergy storage - batteries and fuel cells - and theelectrical conversion of solar energy. Views once seen asfuturistic on nanomachines and nanorobotics, therapeutic hopes andmedical advances - such as those resulting from theapplication of new in-situ drug-delivery nanotechniques - areall presented. The most innovative developments are analyzed in terms ofapplications and should enable the reader to form his or her ownopinion about the reality of the progress that can be expected fromnanotechnologies in the near future. The book offers backgroundreading for teachers in colleges who wish to have an overview onthis subject.