Academic Press, 2011. — 630 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-374396-1Five-Volume Set:
Volume 1. Nanomaterials
Volume 2. Biological Nanoscience
Volume 3. Nanostructured Surfaces
4. Nanofabrication and Devices
Volume 5. Self Assembly and NanochemistryNanotechnology and its underpinning sciences are progressing with unprecedented rapidity. With technical advances in a variety of nanoscale fabrication and manipulation technologies, the whole topical area is maturing into a vibrant field that is generating new scientific research and a burgeoning range of commercial applications, with an annual market already at the trillion dollar threshold. The means of fabricating and controlling matter on the nanoscale afford striking and unprecedented opportunities to exploit a variety of exotic phenomena such as quantum, nanophotonic and nanoelectromechanical effects. Moreover, researchers are elucidating new perspectives on the electronic and optical properties of matter because of the way that nanoscale materials bridge the disparate theories describing molecules and bulk matter. Surface phenomena also gain a greatly increased significance; even the well-known link between chemical reactivity and surface-to-volume ratio becomes a major determinant of physical properties, when it operates over nanoscale dimensions.
Against this background, this comprehensive work is designed to address the need for a dynamic, authoritative and readily accessible source of information, capturing the full breadth of the subject. Its six volumes, covering a broad spectrum of disciplines including material sciences, chemistry, physics and life sciences, have been written and edited by an outstanding team of international experts. Addressing an extensive, cross-disciplinary audience, each chapter aims to cover key developments in a scholarly, readable and critical style, providing an indispensible first point of entry to the literature for scientists and technologists from interdisciplinary fields. The work focuses on the major classes of nanomaterials in terms of their synthesis, structure and applications, reviewing nanomaterials and their respective technologies in well-structured and comprehensive articles with extensive cross-references.Scanning Probe-Based Lithography for Production of Biological and Organic Nanostructures on Surfaces
Electron Beam Lithography of Nanostructures
Sub-Micrometer Patterning Using Soft Lithography
Status of UV Imprint Lithography for Nanoscale Manufacturing
Picoliter Printing
Molecular Printboards: From Supramolecular Chemistry to Nanofabrication
Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal-Enabled Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Light Emitting Devices
The Use of Aluminum Nanostructures in Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence Applications in the Ultraviolet Toward the Label-Free Detection of Biomolecules
Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Femtosecond-Laser-Induced Periodic Self-Organized Nanostructures
Nanofluidics
Molecular Machines and Motors
Superhydrophobicity at Micron and Submicron Scale
Organic Electronic Devices with Water-Dispersible Conducting Polymers
III–V and Group-IV-Based Ferromagnetic Semiconductors for Spintronics
Electronic Properties of Alkanethiol Molecular Junctions: Conduction Mechanisms, Metal–Molecule Contacts, and Inelastic Transport
Nanoscale Transistors
Spin-Based Data Storage
Optical Holographic Data Storage
