Book Description:
Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field and has achieved breakthroughs in bioengineering, molecular biology, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Nanotechnology is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size. Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from novel extensions of conventional device physics, to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, to developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale, even to speculation on whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale. There has been much debate on the future of implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has the potential to create many new materials and devices with wide-ranging applications, such as in medicine, electronics, and energy production. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as with any introduction of new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted. Advances in Nanotechnology, Volume 3 gathers the latest research from around the globe in this dynamic field.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Current Directions in Nanomachining;pp. 1-58
(Mark J. Jackson, Jeffrey J. Evans, Birck Nanotechnology Center and Center for Advanced Manufacturing, College of Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA)

Ba(Ti,Zr)O3 - Functional Materials: From Nanopowders to Bulk Ceramics;pp. 59-120
(Adelina Ianculescu, Liliana Mitoseriu, Department of Oxide Materials Science & Engineering, Polytechnics University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, and others)

Phase Mixture Models and Unit-Cell Calculations for the Effective Elastic and Thermal Properties of Nanocrystalline Ceramics;pp. 121-162
(Willi Pabst, Eva Gregorova, Department of Glass and Ceramics, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague (ICT Prague), Czech Republic)

Applications and Nanomanufacturing of Modern Microfluidic Devices;pp. 163-198
(Zhiguang Xu, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Soon Fatt Yoon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and others)

Fabrication of Biomolecular Nanopatterns;pp. 199-219
(Zhen Gu, Yi Tang, Yong Chen, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA)

Resistance Switching Effects of Metal Oxide Thin Films for Nonvolatile Random Access Memory Applications;pp. 221-238
(Dinghua Bao, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China)

Investigation of Perovskite Lanthanum Manganite Nanoparticles; pp. 239-258
(I.M. Aristova, V. Sedykh, I.I. Zverkova, Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia)

Nanotechnology – Commentary;pp. 259-266
(Animesh Kumar Rakshit, Satya Priya Moulik, West Bengal University of Technology, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India, and others)

Preparation and Properties of Zirconia Nanocrystalline Ceramics;pp. 267-280
Litian Hu, Yongsheng Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China)

Electrical Behavior of Ln2TiO5 (Ln= Dy-Yb) Nanostructural Ceramics;pp. 281-290
(L.G. Shcherbakova, A.V. Shlyakhtina, Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)

DEAE-Dextran and DEAE-Dextran-MMA Graft Copolymer for Nonviral Delivery of Nucleic Acids;pp. 291-330
(Yasuhiko Onishi, Yuki Eshita, Masaaki Mizuno, Ryuju Science Co. Ltd., Seto Japan, and others)

Index