Nanotechnology Demystified Paperback – Illustrated, September 19, 2006

It is exciting to learn about the nanoscale world and nanotechnology's influence on pharmaceuticals, biomedical applications, energy, communications, engineering and the environment. The most amazing stuff are 'nanomedicine' and 'quantum computing & communications'. For your information, nanomedicine describes the medical field of targeting disease or repairing damaged tissues at the molecular level. Quantum computers will be able to process and store huge amounts of information. Quantum processing can operate millions, even billions of times faster than today's supercomputers!

Although it is a post library stock, the pages are clean and crisp. However, price could be lowered a bit.

Nanotechnology forms the basis of many evolving and upcoming technologies. This is an easy way to have a closer look at the technology without going through all the technical hassles. I was now able to broadly define nanotechnology and recommend it to all people with a curious outlook towards technology. A great buy for its content.

Easy to read and very informative for a first look into this subject. Liked the test sections. Would recommend at any time.

Very good book to introduce to nanotechnology..... I recommend it!.....

Great book! Fun to read!

I thought the book was not bad techniclly, albeit written at fairly low level, which I suppose it the focus of the book. However, the authors tried to be "cute" and "dumbed" down the writing, which I found annoying. For example, each chapter ended with a short quiz of 10-15 questions. Without fail, at least 1-2 questions had one absurd and stupid multiple choice answer. For example, Chapt 2, question 9 asks "a nanometer is equal to...?," and choice (a) is "zillionth of a meter." Pretty stupid-right? Chapter 3, question 4 asks "nanotechnology allows material to be created from...?," and choice (c) is "dust bunnies." Even more stupid. Chapt 4, question 6 asks "which of the following tools are not used by nanotechnologists in their work" and choice (d) is "a can opener." OK, now it's getting annoying. This continues through out the entire book, with each chapter having at least one such stupid choice. I don't know if the authors were trying to be funny, amusing, or inject some levity, but I think it had the effect of "dumbing-down the book." I found it rather annoying. It really wasn't the most scholarly work, but if you know absolutely nothing about nanotechnology, and wish to know at least the basic terminology, I suppose it's worth reading.

I bought this book expecting it to contain some useful information and facts.It contains 87 pages of quizes, tests and exams and 16 blank pages.Not much room for facts!The meagre information it does contain is useless and misleading.Examples:1)"Nano materials used for battery separator plates hold much more energy than conventional batteries" But battery separators are inert and do not store energy. Energy is stored in the active chemicals!2) "Batteries made of nanocrystalline nickel will hardly ever need charging" Maybe the authors have found the secret to perpetual motion.Even the very basic fundamental definitions are wrong.Example: "Hertz - The frequency at which alternating current changes direction." (It actually changes direction twice per cycle)Much of the text is off topic.Example: It has a whole chapter about energy which includes only one minor reference to nanotechnology speculating that making transmission cables from nanotubes could reduce transmission losses and power outages.I could go on.....How can you take this book seriously?Don't buy it. It could get you into trouble if you depend on it for answers.

Ajuda a entender o tanto e quanto abstrato "Mundo Nano".

I am going to take a course in nanotechnologyI didn't know anything about nanotech, and this book is a a good clearly written introduction.

The quizzes in this book make it easy to check if you understood everything right. For I ordered Nanotechnology for Dummies as well there are some double topics.