Nanotechnologies


Concepts, Processing and Applications

Nanotechnologies

Pierre Camille Lacaze, Paris Diderot University, France


ISBN : 9781848214385

Publication Date : November 2012

Hardcover 304 pp

125.00 USD

Co-publisher

Description


Nanotechnologies: Concepts, Processing and Applications describes and explains how nanotechnologies have entered our everyday lives through scientific and industrial applications with the emphasis placed on the new perspectives in various fields related to societal problems. This book details how successive discoveries of new nanocarbon structures along with progress in different microscopy techniques have caused nanomaterials to take on an increasingly important role in electronics, electrochemical energy storage – batteries and fuel cells – and the electrical conversion of solar energy. Views once seen as futuristic on nanomachines and nanorobotics, therapeutic hopes and medical advances – such as those resulting from the application of new in-situ drug-delivery nanotechniques – are all presented. The most innovative developments are analyzed in terms of applications and should enable the reader to form his or her own opinion about the reality of the progress that can be expected from nanotechnologies in the near future. The book offers background reading for teachers in colleges who wish to have an overview on this subject.

Contents


Part 1. Concepts, Discoveries and the Rapid Development of Nanotechnologies
1. Nanotechnologies in Context: Social and Scientific Awareness of their Impact.
2. The Rapid Expansion of Nanotechnology: New Ways of Observing the Infinitesimal and the Discovery of Carbonaceous Nanomaterials with Unusual Properties.
3. Nanomaterials in All Their Forms: New Properties Due to the Confinement of Matter.
4. Some Amazing Properties of Nanomaterials and of Their Assembly into Networks.
Part 2. Applications and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
5. Nanoelectronics of the 21st Century.
6. Energy and Nanomaterials.
7. Nanobiology and Nanomedicine.
8. Nanorobotics and Nanomachines of the Future.

About the authors/editors


Pierre Camille Lacaze is Emeritus Professor at Paris Diderot University, France. He has published 230 articles in international journals, and has filed six patents.