Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology, Second Edition

The ability to study and manipulate matter at the nanoscale is the defining feature of 21st-century science. The first edition of the standard-setting Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology saw the field through its infancy. Reassembling the preeminent team of leading scientists and researchers from all areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology along with several new pioneers, this second edition will guide the field through its burgeoning adolescence. The phenomenal growth and staggering variety of applications of nanotechnology prevent any reference from providing a complete picture of the field. Instead, this edition surveys the most important areas, the most promising technologies, and the fastest-growing developments of current interest. In particular, it discusses fundamental theory of molecular and nanoelectronics, advanced fabrication technologies, modeling and simulation results, and novel molecular and nanoelectronic devices. New chapters in the Second Edition explore… The story of how the National Nanotechnology Initiative was born, where it is now, and where it is going Molecular computing and processing platforms Spin field effect transistors Moletronics and spintronics Nanoarchitectonics Molecular machines Magnetic manipulation applications in biomedical science Biological- and chemical-mediated self-assembly Nanomanufacturing Nanotextile technologies Nanofluidics for cell biology Carbon nanostructures and nanocomposites Accelerated design tools for nanophotonic devices Nanoparticles for drug delivery Remaining the definitive reference for nano researchers around the world, the Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology, Second Edition provides the signposts for blazers of the nano trail.

Table of Contents:
NANOTECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom…; Richard P. Feynman Room at the Bottom, Plenty of Tyranny at the Top; Karl Hess The National Nanotechnology Initiative: Past, Present, Future; Mihail C. Roco MOLECULAR AND NANOELECTRONICS Engineering Challenges in Molecular Electronics; Gregory N. Parsons Molecular Electronic Computing Architectures; James M. Tour and Dustin K. James Nanoelectronic Circuit Architectures; Wolfgang Porod Molecular Computing and Processing Platforms; Sergey Edward Lyshevski Spin Field Effect Transistors; Supriyo Bandyopadhyay and Marc Cahay Electron Charge and Spin Transport in Organic and Semiconductor Nanodevices: Moletronics and Spintronics; Alexandre M. Bratkovski Nanoarchitectonics: Advances in Nanoelectronics; Kang Wang, Kosmas Galatsis, Roman Ostroumov, Mihri Ozkan, Kostantin Likharev, and Youssry Botros Molecular Machines; Brian H. Northrop, Adam B. Braunschweig, Paula M. Mendes, William R. Dichtel, and J. Fraser Stoddart MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS: DEVICES Molecular Conductance Junctions: A Theory and Modeling; Vladimoro Mujica and Mark A. Ratner Modeling Electronics at the Nanoscale; Narayan R. Aluru, Jean-Pierre Leburton, William McMahon, Umberto Ravaioloi, Slava V. Roktin, Martin Staedele, Trudy van der Straaten, Blair R. Tuttle, and Karl Hess Resistance of a Molecule; Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid and Supriyo Datta MANIPULATION AND ASSEMBLY Magnetic Manipulation for the Biomedical Sciences; J.K. Fisher, L. Vicci, K. Bloom, E. Timothy O'Brien, C.W. Davis, R.M. Taylor, II, and R. Superfine Nanoparticle manipulation by Electrostatic Forces; Michael Pycraft Hughes Biological and Chemical-Mediated Self-Assembly of Artificial Micro and Nanostructures; S.W. Lee, R. Bashir, Won-Ju, and Kang-Won Nanostructural Architectures from Molecular Building Blocks; Damian G. Allis and James T. Spencer Building Block Approaches to Nonlinear and Linear Macromolecules; Stephen A. Habay and Christian E. Schafmeister Introduction to Nanomanufacturing; Ahmed Busnaina Textile Nanotechnologies; B. Pourdeyhimi FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES Carbon Nanotubes; M. Meyyappan and Deepak Srivastava Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes; Dong Qian, Gregory J. Wagner, Wing Kam Liu, Min-Feng Yu, and Rodney S. Ruoff Dendrimers-An Enabling Synthetic Science to Controlled Organic Nanostructures; D.A. Tomalia and S.A. Henderson. and M.S. Diallo Design and Applications of Photonic Crystals; Dennis W. Prather, Ahmed S. Sharkawy, Shouyuan Shi, and Caihua Chen Progress in Nanofluidics for Cell Biology; Todd Thorsen and Joshua S. Marcus Carbon Nanostructures and Nanocomposites; Yanhong Hu, Zushou Hu, Clifford W. Padgett, Donald W. Brenner, and Olga A. Shenderova Contributions of Molecular Modeling to Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology; Donald W. Brenner, O.A. Shenderova, J.D. Schall, D.A. Areshkin, S. Adiga, J.A. Harrison, and S.J. Stuart Accelerated Design Tools for Nanophotonic Devices and Applications; James P. Durbano, Ahmed S. Sharkawy, Shouyuan Shi, Fernando E. Ortiz, and Petersen F. Curt Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery; Meredith L. Hans and Anthony M. Lowman Index