Principles And Practices of Nanotechnology

About The Book

With new instruments for the molecular treatment of diseases, quick disease detection, improving the capacity of plants to absorb nutrients, etc., nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionise the agricultural and food industries. Solid state physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, biochemistry and biophysics, and materials science are all combined in nanotechnology. It is a very multidisciplinary field, which means that ideas from numerous traditional disciplines are incorporated into it. The creation and application of materials with specifically tailored properties close to the atomic or molecular scale is known as nanotechnology (NT). NT deals with assembling things one atom at a time and with tiny, visually undetectable structures. It allows for the development of entirely new materials, gadgets, and systems with entirely new capabilities. The NT's promise is enormous. It has effects on practically all categories of industrial procedures and goods. Nanomaterials are incredibly tiny, with at least one dimension being 100 nm or less. Nanoscale materials come in one or more dimensions, such as surface coatings, strands, or fibres, or three dimensions (e.g. particles). They come in spherical, tubular, and irregular shapes, and can be found alone, fused, aggregated, or agglomerated. Typical examples of nanomaterials include fullerenes, quantum dots, dendrimers, and nanotubes. Due of the numerous potential uses in the disciplines of biomedicine, optics, and electronics, there is now a lot of scientific study being done in the area of nanoparticles. As a kind of link between bulk materials and atomic or molecular structures, nanoparticles are of tremendous scientific interest. The physical properties of a bulk material ought to remain constant with size, however at the nanoscale, this is frequently not the case. This book gives the reader an in-depth look at several facets of nanotechnology in order to introduce them to the area.