Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems, Second Edition(Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series)

Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award 2011!Transistors using one electron at a time. Sunscreens made with titanium dioxide particles that look transparent to our eyes but block harmful UV rays. Nanometer-sized specks of gold that change color to red and melt at 750 C instead of 1064 C. Nanotechnology takes the unique physical propertie

Table of Contents:
Big Picture and Principles of the Small World. Introduction to Miniaturization. Introduction to Nanoscale Physics. Nanomaterials. Nanomechanics. Nanoelectronics. Nanoscale Heat Transfer. Nanophotonics. Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics. Nanobiotechnology. Index.

About the Author :
Ben Rogers graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (2001) and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (2002), from the University of Nevada, Reno. He's worked on a due diligence team to evaluate and mentor start-up companies, and as a staff writer for multiple newspapers.. More recently, he's worked as a research scientist at Nanogen, Inc., the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Nanomechanics Research Group at the University of Nevada. He's coauthored 19 technical papers in journals including Nature and Applied Physics Letters, has two patents and has served as a reviewer for both scientific and educational journals, as well as the National Science Foundation. He is the lead author of Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems (CRC Press), a first-of-its kind, comprehensive textbook on nanotechnology, and teaches a course on the topic. Ben currently serves as the principal engineer at Nevada Nanotech Systems, Inc., working to commercialize a new sensor technology. He lives in Reno with his wife and two daughters. In his spare time, he loves to write and has published a novel as well as many short stories and essays. Professor Sumita Pennathur started her tenure at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in July 2007. Prior to UCSB, she held postdoctoral positions at both University of Twente in the Netherlands and Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore CA. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in March 2006, where her research investigated electrokinetic transport of fluids at the nanoscale. Prior to Stanford, she received both her B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering from M.I.T. where she studied microscale cavitation in MEMS devices. In addition to co-authoring an undergraduate textbook about Nanotechnology, she is the recipient of both the 2008 DARP

Review :
"Ever since Richard Feynman gave his classic talk in 1959, "There Is Plenty of Room at the Bottom," there has been a steadily increasing buzz in manipulating matter at the atomic scale--nanotechnology. This updated work (1st ed., 2008) takes the revolutionary concepts and techniques that have traditionally been fodder for graduate study and makes them accessible for all. Covering subjects ranging from materials science to mechanics and biotechnology to photonics, Rogers and Adams (both, Nevada Nano) and Pennathur (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) deftly introduce the reader to each topic and quickly explain why it is important on the nanoscale. An exciting feature is the 'back of the envelope' examples, where the reader is walked through 'quick and dirty' calculations to illustrate and understand (mathematically) the complex concepts discussed. The end of each chapter includes traditional problem sets and short answer questions to test understanding. While not a comprehensive text in any specific area of nanoscale science or engineering, this outstanding introduction to the broad field of nanotechnology provides a solid foundation for further study. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers." -N.M. Fahrenkopf, University at Albany, CHOICE, 2011 Praise for the First Edition "It is written in an easily understandable manner, not requiring from the reader deep knowledge in the related topics of physics and mathematics before reading this book. It uncovers the most important things about nanotechnology explained in a very illustrative manner with many simple examples, figures, and 'back-of-the-envelope' calculations, so that the reader can get a good feeling for the numbers of nanotechnology." -Zentralblatt MATH, 1185