This book contains 35 review articles on nanoscience and nanotechnology that were first published in Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials and a number of other Nature journals. The articles are all written by leading authorities in their field and cover a wide range of areas in nanoscience and technology, from basic research (such as single-molecule devices and new materials) through to applications (in, for example, nanomedicine and data storage).

Table of Contents:
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 et al.); Molecular Machines and Devices: Making Molecular Machines Work (Wesley R Browne & Ben L Feringa); Molecular Logic and Computing (A Prasanna de 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 et al.); Nanoionics-Based Resistive Switching Memories (Rainer Waser & Masakazu Aono); Technology and Metrology of New Electronic Materials and Devices (Eric Vogel); Carbon-Based Electronics (Phaedon Avouris et al.); 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 et al.); 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 et al.); Neuroscience Nanotechnology: Progress, Opportunities and Challenges (Gabriel A Silva); The Potential and Challenges of Nanopore Sequencing (Daniel Branton et al.); Atomic Force Microscopy as a Multifunctional Molecular Toolbox in Nanobiotechnology (Daniel J Muller & Yves F Dufrene); 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 et al.); 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.).