The ability to measure and manipulate matter on the nanometer level is making possible a new generation of materials with enhanced mechanical, optical, transpor

Annotation Nanotechnology is an area of science and technology where dimensions and tolerances in the range of 0.1 nm to 100nm play a critical role. Nanotechnol

The techniques and methods that can be applied to materials characterization on the microscale are numerous and well-established. Divided into two parts, Charac

The importance of the nanoscale effects has been recognized in materials research for over fifty years, but it is only recently that advanced characterization a

The book identifies new nanometric architectures that would be of particular interest for applications and the technological route to reach them. Nano-architect