Nanotechnology

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology are experiencing a rapid development in many aspects, like real-space atomic-scale imaging, atomic and molecular manipulation, nano-fabrication, etc.

The primary objective of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) titled "e;Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices, and Systems for Chem.

This book focuses on the practical aspects of particle size measurement: a major difference with existing books, which have a more theoretical approach.

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Hybrid Methods of Molecular Modeling is a self-contained advanced review offering step by step derivation of the consistent theoretical picture of hybrid modeling methods and the thorough analysis of the concepts and current practical methods of hybrid modeling based on this theory.

During the last two decades silicon-containing dendritic polymers have become one of the fastest growing areas of development in polymer science.

Silicon Based Polymers presents highlights in advanced research and technological innovations using macromolecular organosilicon compounds and systems, as presented in the 2007 ISPO congress.

How to develop innovative architectures based on emerging molecular devices?

Nanostructured materials take on an enormously rich variety of properties and promise exciting new advances in micromechanical, electronic, and magnetic devices as well as in molecular fabrications.

In December 2002, the world's first commercial magnetic levitation super-train went into operation in Shanghai.

A team of outstanding scientists in the field of modern magnetic nanotechnologies illustrates the state of the art in several areas of advanced magneto-electronic devices, magnetic micro-electromechanical systems and high density information storage technologies.

"e;The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

"e;Nanomaterials and Nanosystems for Biomedical Applications"e; brings together under a single cover various aspects of functional bioengineered materials and nanostructured biomaterials including commonly used implants and sustained release nanodevices.

Nanotechnology & Society is a collection of sixteen papers focused on the most urgent issues arising from nanotechnology today and in the near future.

At 90 nm, wires account for nearly 75% of the total delay in a circuit.

This proceedings volume constitutes an archive of the contributions of the key-speakers who attended the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Nanoscaled Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and devices"e; held in the Tourist and Recreation Centre "e;Sudak"e; (Crimea, Ukraine) from 15 to 19 October 2006.

The volume contributes to the ongoing nanoethics debate in four topical areas.

This volume contains research reports presented during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "e;Materials for Application in Medicine and Biology"e; held in Bonn, Germany, from October 4 to 6, 2006 at the center of advanced european studies and research (caesar).

Fullerenes and nanotubes are two classes of carbon structures or allotropes, which were discovered about 17 years ago.

Recently, an important scientific event in metathesis chemistry, the NATO-Advanced Study Institute New Frontiers in Metathesis Chemistry: From Nanostructure Design to Sustainable Technologies for .

Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing technological fields of the 21st century.

In Periodic Nanostructures, the authors demonstrate that structural periodicity in various nanostructures has been proven experimentally.

Nanotechnology is rapidly invading many aspects of modern society - from science, research and engineering to industrial and commercial applications and, inevitably, to man and his environment.

The articles collected in this book cover a wide range of materials with extraordinary superconducting and magnetic properties.

Over the last decade the interest in nanoscale materials and their applications in novel electronic devices have been increasing tremendously.

The 2005 International Conference "e;Hydrogen Materials Science and Chemistry of Carbon Nanomaterials"e; (ICHMS'2005) was held in September 5-11, 2005 in the remarkable city Sevastopol (Crimea, Ukraine) known for its heroic and unusual th fate.

Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology promise to have major impacts on human health, wealth, and peace in the coming decades.

"e;Molecular Materials with Specific Interactions: Modeling and Design"e; has a very interdisciplinary character and is intended to provide basic information as well as the details of theory and examples of its application to experimentalists and theoreticians interested in modeling molecular properties and putting into practice rational design of new materials.

"e;Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: Recent Advances"e; covers developments in the field of thermotropic liquid crystals and their functional importance.

This book originated from a workshop held at the DATE 2005 conference, namely Designing Complex SOCs.

The low cost and direct digital output of CMOS smart temperature sensors are important advantages compared to conventional temperature sensors.

Design for Manufacturability and Yield for Nano-Scale CMOS walks the reader through all the aspects of manufacturability and yield in a nano-CMOS process and how to address each aspect at the proper design step starting with the design and layout of standard cells and how to yield-grade libraries for critical area and lithography artifacts through place and route, CMP model based simulation and dummy-fill insertion, mask planning, simulation and manufacturing, and through statistical design and statistical timing closure of the design.

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Calixarenes have been widely exploited in all areas of supramolecular chemistry over the past three decades and many recent developments have concerned their applications in the production of chemical entities with the dimensions of nanometres, as in "e;nanochemistry"e;.

Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies addresses current trends and future directions in radio design for wireless applications.

In September 2005 a NATO Advanced Research Workshop convened in Kiev to discuss the current state of the art in surface chemistry and nanomaterials research, with a view towards biomedical and environmental applications.

Recently, it was reported that nanostructured materials processed under high pressure by HPT and ECAP have an extraordinary combination of both high strength and high ductility, which are two desirable, but rarely co-existing properties.

Ambient Intelligence is one of the new paradigms in the development of information and communication technology, which has attracted much attention over the past years.

Low-Power Low-Voltage Sigma-Delta Modulators in Nanometer CMOS addresses the low-power low-voltage Sigma-Delta ADC design in nanometer CMOS technologies at both the circuit-level and the system level.

With the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science (NBIC) fields promising to change our competitive, operational, and employment landscape in fundamental ways, we find ourselves on the brink of a new technological and science-driven business revolution.

It is about 15 years that the carbon nanotubes have been discovered by Sumio Iijima in a transmission electron microscope.

The beginning of the XXI-st century can be seen as the start of a revolution in nanomaterials and nanotechnology which has already an impact on everyday life; this impact will grow rapidly in the near future.

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"e;Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks"e; is a comprehensive treatise on gelators, especially low molecular-mass gelators and the properties of their gels.