This self-confessed introduction provides technical administrators and managers with a broad, practical overview of the subject and gives researchers working in different areas an appreciation of developments in nanotechnology outside their own fields of expertise.

Preface.
1. Introduction.

2. Introduction to Physics of the Solid State.

3. Methods of Measuring Properties.

4. Properties of Individual Nanoparticles.

5. Carbon Nanostructures.

6. Bulk Nanostructured Materials.

7. Nanostructured Ferromagnetism.

8. Optical and Vibrational Spectroscopy.

9. Quantum Wells, Wires, and Dots.

10. Self-Assembly and Catalysis.

11. Organic Compounds and Polymers.

12. Biological Materials.

13. Nanomachines and Nanodevices.

Appendix A: Formulas for Dimensionality.

Appendix B: Tabulations of Semiconducting Material Properties.

Index.

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