Nanotechnology And Nanoscience

About The Book

Solid state physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, biochemistry and biophysics, and materials science are all combined in nanotechnology. It involves ideas incorporated from many traditional disciplines because it is a highly multidisciplinary field. The use of quantum theory in the development of novel nanoscale components and systems is known as quantum nanoscience. Quantum techniques including discretization, superposition, and entanglement are used in quantum nanoscience to describe the construction and operation of unnatural or artificial nanoscale systems. Years of experience with heat engines in the 19th century gave rise to the new science of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics' interpretation of the physical world is now woven into the fabric of engineering and successful design across a wide spectrum of various technologies. Quantum nanoscience and thermodynamics are enabling sciences for engineering and design of innovative nanotechnologies. A technology called molecular nanotechnology (MNT) is based on the capacity to use mechanosynthesis to create structures that meet intricate, atomic-level criteria. This is separate from materials at the nanoscale. This advanced version of nanotechnology (or molecular manufacturing) will use positionally-controlled mechanosynthesis supervised by molecular machine systems, based on Richard Feynman's vision of microscopic factories using nanomachines to manufacture sophisticated products (including other nanomachines). MNT would include fusing the systems engineering ideas present in contemporary macroscale factories with the physical concepts illustrated by chemistry, other nanotechnologies, and the molecular mechanism of life. This book gives the reader an in-depth look at several facets of nanotechnology in order to introduce them to the area.