edited by Peter Rodgers (Nature Publishing Group)

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This book contains 35 review articles on nanoscience and nanotechnology that were first published in Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials and a number of other Nature journals. The articles are all written by leading authorities in their field and cover a wide range of areas in nanoscience and technology, from basic research (such as single-molecule devices and new materials) through to applications (in, for example, nanomedicine and data storage).

• Nanomaterials and Nanostructures:
  • Progress Towards Monodisperse Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Mark C Hersam)
  • The Rise of Graphene (A K Geim & K S Novoselov)
  • Multiferroics: Progress and Prospects in Thin Films (R Ramesh & Nicola A Spaldin)
  • Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-Like Nanoparticles (R Tenne)
  • The Role of Interparticle and External Forces in Nanoparticle Assembly (Younjin Min et al.)
  • Complex Thermoelectric Materials (G Jeffrey Snyder & Eric S Toberer)
  • Solid-State Nanopores (Cees Dekker)
  • Engineering Atomic and Molecular Nanostructures at Surfaces (Johannes V Barth et al.)
• Molecular Machines and Devices:
  • Making Molecular Machines Work (Wesley R Browne & Ben L Feringa)
  • Molecular Logic and Computing (A Prasanna de Silva & Seiichi Uchiyama)
  • Harnessing Biological Motors to Engineer Systems for Nanoscale Transport and Assembly (Anita Goel & Viola Vogel)
  • Designed DNA Molecules: Principles and Applications of Molecular Nanotechnology (Anne Condon)
  • DNA Nanomachines (Jonathan Bath & Andrew J Turberfield)
• Nanoelectronics:
  • Nanoelectronics from the Bottom Up (Wei Lu & Charles M Lieber)
  • The Emergence of Spin Electronics in Data Storage (Claude Chappert et al.)
  • Nanoionics-Based Resistive Switching Memories (Rainer Waser & Masakazu Aono)
  • Technology and Metrology of New Electronic Materials and Devices (Eric M Vogel)
  • Carbon-Based Electronics (Phaedon Avouris et al.)
  • Electron Transport in Molecular Junctions (N J Tao)
  • Molecular Spintronics using Single-Molecule Magnets (Lapo Bogani & Wolfgang Wernsdorfer)
• Nanophotonics:
  • Light in Tiny Holes (C Genet & T W Ebbesen)
  • Nano-Optics from Sensing to Waveguiding (Surbhi Lal et al.)
  • Semiconductor Quantum Light Sources (Andrew J Shields)
  • Biomimetics of Photonic Nanostructures (Andrew R Parker & Helen E Townley)
• Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine:
  • Nanoparticle Therapeutics: An Emerging Treatment Modality for Cancer (Mark E Davis et al.)
  • Neuroscience Nanotechnology: Progress, Opportunities and Challenges (Gabriel A Silva)
  • The Potential and Challenges of Nanopore Sequencing (Daniel Branton et al.)
  • Atomic Force Microscopy as a Multifunctional Molecular Toolbox in Nanobiotechnology (Daniel J Müller & Yves F Dufrêne)
  • Immunological Properties of Engineered Nanomaterials (Marina A Dobrovolskaia & Scott E McNeil)
  • Injectable Nanocarriers for Biodetoxification (Jean-Christophe Leroux)
• Selected Applications:
  • Applications of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (Khalid Salaita et al.)
  • Biosensing with Plasmonic Nanosensors (Jeffrey N Anker et al.)
  • Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors (Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi)
  • Future Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies for Interrogating Individual Molecules (Harold Craighead)
  • Science and Technology for Water Purification in the Coming Decades (Mark A Shannon et al.).