A new high-level book for professionals from Atlantis Press providing an
overview of nanotechnologies now and their applications in a broad
variety of fields, including information and communication technologies,
environmental sciences and engineering, societal life, and medicine,
with provision of customized treatments.
The book shows where nanotechnology is now - a fascinating time when the
science is transitioning into complex systems with impact on new
products. Present and future developments are addressed, as well as a
larger number of new industrial and research opportunities deriving from
this domain. An overview for professionals, researchers and
policy-makers of this very rapidly expanding field. Brief chapters and
colour figures with a contained overall length make the book attractive
at an attractive price - a must for every professional's shelf.
Mihail C. Roco, National Science Foundation and National Nanotechnology
Initiative, wrote the preface underlying the importance and weight of
the present book to this exciting and epoch-awakening field of research
and applications:
"Nanotechnology is well recognized as a science and technology megatrend
for the beginning of the 21st century. This book aims to show where
nanotechnology is now - transitioning to complex systems and
fundamentally new products - and communicates the societal promise of
nanotechnology to specialists and the public. Most of what has already
made it into the marketplace is in the form of "First Generation"
products, passive nanostructures with steady behaviour. Many companies
have "Second Generation" products, active nanostructures with changing
behaviour during use, and embryonic "Third Generation" products,
including 3-dimensional nanosystems. Concepts for "Fourth Generation"
products, including heterogeneous molecular nanosystems, are only in
research."
