Nanoscience

Nanoscience stands out for its interdisciplinarity. Barriers between disciplines disappear and the fields tend to converge at the very smallest scale, where basic principles and tools are universal. Novel properties are inherent to nanosized systems due to quantum effects and a reduction in dimensionality: nanoscience is likely to continue to revolutionize many areas of human activity, such as materials science, nanoelectronics, information processing, biotechnology and medicine. This textbook spans all fields of nanoscience, covering its basics and broad applications. After an introduction to the physical and chemical principles of nanoscience, coverage moves on to the adjacent fields of microscopy, nanoanalysis, synthesis, nanocrystals, nanowires, nanolayers, carbon nanostructures, bulk nanomaterials, nanomechanics, nanophotonics, nanofluidics, nanomagnetism, nanotechnology for computers, nanochemistry, nanobiology, and nanomedicine. Consequently, this broad yet unified coverage addresses research in academia and industry across the natural scientists. Didactically structured and replete with hundreds of illustrations, the textbook is aimed primarily at graduate and advanced-undergraduate students of natural sciences and medicine, and their lecturers.

Unique and most comprehensive textbook covering the entire field of nanosciences Interdsiciplinary textbook covering the physical, biologal, medical and engineering aspects of nanostructures and devices Inspiring interdisciplinary view teaching the basics and advanced results of nanosciences Excellent basis for lectures in the various fields of nanosciences Perfectly didactically illustrated book with hundreds of excellent figures which open an additional rich source of information Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Prof. Dr. Hans-Eckhardt Schaefer received his Dr. rer. nat. in physics from Stuttgart University, Germany. His main research fields are solid state physics and nanoscience. He gave courses in nanoscience at Stuttgart University and is a guest professor in Japan, China, and South America. He received the Tammann Medal of the German Materials Research Society and the Lee Xun Research Award of the Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China.

Inhalt
IntroductionIntroduction and Some Physical Principlesphysical principles .- MicroscopyMicroscopy Nanoscopynanoscopy .- Synthesis 3. Synthesis .- NanocrystalsNanocrystals Nanowiresnanowires Nanolayersnanolayers .- Carbon NanostructuresCarbon nanostructures Tubes, Graphenegraphene , Fullerenesfullerenes , Wave-Particle Dualitywave-particle duality .- Nanocrystalline MaterialsNanocrystalline materials .- NanomechanicsNanomechanics Nanophotonicsnanophotonics Nanofluidicsnanofluidics .- NanomagnetismNanomagnetism .- Nanotechnology for ComputersNanotechnology for computers , Memoriesmemories , and Hard Diskshard disks .- NanochemistryNanochemistry From Supramolecular Chemistrysupramolecular chemistry to Chemistry on the Nanoscalechemistry on the nanoscale , Catalysiscatalysis , Renewable Energyrenewable energy , Batteriesbatteries , and Environmental Protectionenvironmental protection .- Biology on the NanoscaleBiology on the nanoscale .- NanomedicineNanomedicine .