"This book brings together 35 review and progress articles from eight different Nature journals"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references.

Challenges and opportunities for nanoscience and technology / James R. Heath -- Nanomaterials and nanostructures. Progress towards monodisperse single-walled carbon nanotubes / Mark C. Hersam -- The rise of graphene / A. K. Geim & K. S. Novoselov -- Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films / R. Ramesh & Nicola A. Spaldin -- Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles / R. Tenne -- The role of interparticle and external forces in nanoparticle assembly / Younjin Min ...[et al.] -- Complex thermoelectric materials / G. Jeffrey Snyder & Eric S. Toberer -- Solid-state nanopores / Cees Dekker -- Engineering atomic and molecular nanostructures at surfaces / Johannes V. Barth, Giovanni Costantini & Klaus Kern -- Molecular machines and devices. Making molecular machines work / Wesley R. Browne & Ben L. Feringa -- Molecular logic and computing / A. Prasanna del Silva & Seiichi Uchiyama -- Harnessing biological motors to engineer systems for nanoscale transport and assembly / Anita Goel & Viola Vogel -- Designed DNA molecules: principles and applications of molecular nanotechnology / Anne Condon -- DNA nanomachines / Jonathan Bath & Andrew J. Turberfield

Nanoelectronics. Nanoelectronics from the bottom up / Wei Lu & Charles M. Lieber -- The emergence of spin electronics in data storage / Claude Chappert, Albert Fert & Frédéric Nguyen Van Dau -- Nanoionics-based resistive switching memories / Rainer Waser & Masakazu Aono -- Technology and metrology of new electronic materials and devices / Eric M. Vogel -- Carbon-based electronics / Phaedon Avouris, Zhihong Chen & Vasili Perebeinos -- Electron transport in molecular junctions / N.J. Tao -- Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets / Lapo Bogani & Wolfgang Wernsdorfer -- Nanophotonics. Light in tiny holes / C. Genet & T.W. Ebbesen -- Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding / Surbhi Lal, Stephan Link & Naomi J. Halas -- Semiconductor quantum light sources / Andrew J. Shields -- Biomimetics of photonic nanostructures / Andrew R. Parker & Helen E. Townley

Nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine. Nanoparticle therapeutics: an emerging treatment modality for cancer / Mark E. Davis, Zhuo (Georgia) Chen & Dong M. Shin -- Neuroscience nanotechnology: progress, opportunities and challenges / Gabriel A. Silva -- The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing / Daniel J. Müller & Yves F. Dufrêne -- Immunological properties of engineered nanomaterials / Marina A. Dobrovolskaia & Scott E. McNeil -- Injectable nanocarriers for biodetoxification / Jean-Christophe Leroux -- Selected applications. Applications of dip-pen nanolithography / Khalid Salaita, Yuhuang Wang & Chad a. Mirkin -- Biosensing with plasmonic nanosensors / Jeffrey N. Anker ...[et al.] Materials for electrochemical capacitors / Patrice Simon & Yury Gogotsi -- Future lab-on-a-chip technologies for interrogating individual molecules / Harold Craighead -- Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades / Mark A. Shannon ...[et al.].