Book Description:
Nanotechnology is a 'catch-all' description of activities at the level of atoms and molecules that have applications in the real world. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, about 1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair, or 10 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom. Nanotechnology is now used in precision engineering, new materials development as well as in electronics; electromechanical systems as well as mainstream biomedical applications in areas such as gene therapy, drug delivery and novel drug discovery techniques. This book presents the latest research in this frontier field.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Electrospinning: A Novel Method for Metal Oxide Fibers (Hak Yong Kim, Periasamy Viswanathamurthi, Narayan Bhattarai and Bin Ding, Chonbuk National University, South Korea); Nanofocusing Probe Optimization in a Near-Field Head for an Ultra-High Density Optical Memory (Ivan D. Nikolov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria; Kazuma Kurihara and Kenya Goto, Tokai University, Japan); Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Metallic Nanocluster Interfaces (J. C. Jiménez-Sáez, Universidad Politécnica, Spain; , A. M. C. Pérez-Martín and J. J. Jiménez-Rodríguez, Universidad Complutense, Spain); Pre- and Post-Breakdown Conduction of Thin SiO2 Gate Oxides of MOS Devices: A Conductive Atomic Force Microscope Study (M. Porti, M. Nafría and X. Aymerich, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Topographic and Electrical Characterization of Afm-Grown SiO2 on Si (X. Blasco, M. Nafría, X. Aymerich, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Solvothermal Route used to Synthesize BN Nanocrystals and the Catalytic Effect of BN Nanocrystals (Deliang Cui and Minhua Jiang, Shandong University, P. R. of China); Covalently Attached Multilayer Self-Assembly Films and Micropatterns Comprising Metallic Nanoparticles (Weixiao Cao, Conghua Lu and Chuanqiou Luo, Peking University,P. R. of China); Photoluminescence from High Purity InN and InGaN Nanoparticles Synthesized by Pulsed Discharge (Pei-Nan Wang, Wei-Dong Yang, Lan Mi and Hong Shen, Fudan University, P. R. of China; K. W. Cheah, Hong Kong Baptist University, P. R. of China); Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO Nanostructures (Deren Yang and Hui Zhang, Zhejiang University, P. R. of China); Index.