Overview
- Latest developments in computational, dry and wet nanotechnology are presented
- Special emphasis on carbon structures, including nanotubes, wires and diamondoids, is unique
- Should appeal to a broad range of people, including those is academe, industry and governmental labs, as a useful source for current research activities in nanoscience and technology
Part of the book series: Topics in Applied Physics (TAP, volume 109)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book deals with a "bottom-up" approach to building nanostructured systems, where one starts with atoms and molecules, which constitute the molecular building blocks (MBBs), and assembles them to build a nanostructured material. Nanotechnology MBBs are distinguished for their unique properties. They include, for example, graphite, fullerene, carbon nanotubes, diamondoids, nanowires, nanocrystals and amino acids. All these MBBs, and more, are candidates for various applications in nanotechnology. These building blocks have quite unique properties not found in small molecules. Some of these MBBs are electrical conductors, some are semiconductors, some are photonic, and the characteristic dimension of each is a few nanometers. The examples covered in this book by the sixteen chapters written by authorities all around the world include: (1) carbon nanotubes, which are five times lighter and five times stronger than steel; (2) nanowires, which can be made of metals, semiconductors, or even different types of semiconductors within a single wire; and (3) diamondoids, a form of pure carbon materials which provide excellent building blocks for positional (or robotic) assembly as well as for self-assembly.
The applications of MBBs as presented in this book should enable the practitioner of nanotechnology to design and build systems on a nanometer scale. The controlled synthesis of MBBs and their subsequent assembly (self-assembly, self-replication or positional-assembly) into nanostructures is a fundamental theme of nanotechnology. These promising nanotechnology concepts with far-reaching implications (from mechanical to chemical processes; from electronic components to ultra-sensitive sensors; from medical applications to energy systems; and from pharmaceuticals to agricultural and food chains) will impact every aspect of our future.
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"The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the state of the art research and developments in the ongoing ‘bottom-up’ nanoscience and nanotechnology. … various readers with different backgrounds, physicists, chemists, biologists, materials scientists, and even medical doctors, will find some interesting and valuable information. Hence, the book will find a place in any multidisciplinary library. It will also be very useful to a scientist who has to write a research proposal in the nano-domain … ." (Fernande Grandjean and Gary J. Long, Physicalia, Vol. 30 (2), 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Building Blocks for Nanotechnology
Book Subtitle: From Diamondoids to Nanoscale Materials and Applications
Editors: G. Ali Mansoori, Thomas F. George, Lahsen Assoufid, Guoping Zhang
Series Title: Topics in Applied Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39938-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-39937-9Published: 20 April 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9701-2Published: 03 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-39938-6Published: 14 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0303-4216
Series E-ISSN: 1437-0859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 426
Topics: Nanotechnology, Optical and Electronic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics