Dixon C.J., Curtines O.W. (Eds.) Nanotechnology - Nanofabrication, Patterning, and Self Assembly

Nova Science Publishers, 2010. — 664 p.This book is dedicated to outstanding research in nanotechnology which 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.