Research Catalog

Title

• Nanoscience : the science of the small in physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and medicine / Hans-Eckhardt Schaefer.

Author

Schaefer, H. E. (Hans Eckart), 1936-

Publication

Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, c2010.

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Description

xxiii, 772 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Science of the small in physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and medicine

Subject

• Biophysics and Biological Physics
• Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
• Engineering
• Nanochemistry
• Nanoscale Science and Technology
• Nanoscience
• Nanostructures
• Nanotechnology and Microengineering
• Physics
• Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films
• Surfaces (Physics)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction and some physical principles -- Microscopy--nanoscopy -- Synthesis -- Nanocrystals--nanowires--nanolayers -- Carbon nanostructures--tubes, graphene, fullerenes, wave-particle duality -- Nanocrystalline materials -- Nanomechanics--nanophotonics--nanofluidics -- Nanomagnetism -- Nanotechnology for computers, memories, and hard disks -- Nanochemistry--from supramolecular chemistry to chemistry on the nanoscale, catalysis, renewable energy, batteries, and environmental protection -- Biology on the nanoscale -- Nanomedicine.

ISBN

• 9783642105586 (hbk.)
• 3642105580 (hbk.)
• 9783642105593 (e-ISBN)
• 3642105599 (e-ISBN)

OCLC

495781755

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library