Advances In Nanoscience And Nanotechnology

SELECTED TOPICS IN NANOSCIENCEAND NANOTECHNOLOGY 7214tpCast.indd 7/23/09 9:02:44 AM This page intentionally left blank SELECTED TOPICS IN NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ^ Editor Andrew T S Wee National University of Singapore, Singapore World Scientific NEW JERSEY • LONDON • SINGAPORE • BEIJING • SHANGHAI • HONG KONG • TAIPEI • CHENNAI 7214tpCast.indd 2 7/23/09 9:02:46 AM Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover: STM image of Epitaxial Graphene adapted from paper: Huang H, Chen W, Chen S, Wee ATS Bottom-up Growth of Epitaxial Graphene on 6H-SiC(0001) ACS NANO, 2008, 2(12), pp 2513–2518 SELECTED TOPICS IN NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY Copyright © 2009 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN-13 978-981-283-955-8 ISBN-10 981-283-955-0 Typeset by Stallion Press Email: [email protected] Printed in Singapore. ChianYang - Selected Topics in NanoSci.pmd 1 9/29/2009, 9:04 AM May 12, 2009 15:27 b780-fm Preface Nanotechnology is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Nanotechnology has promised to be one of the important growth areas in the twenty first century: it has the potential to create many new materials and devices with wide-ranging applications in medicine, electronics, energy production and so on. Since the invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope and the discovery of fullerenes in the 1980s, researchers worldwide have devoted much resources and effort to harness the potential of technology at the nanoscale. This book is a collection of twelve review articles written by experts in their respective fields, and is classified under the sub-headings: • • • • • Scanning Probe Techniques Nanofabrication Functional Nanomaterials Molecular Engineering Bionanotechnology and Nanomedicine Although the coverage is not exhaustive, these reviews are representative of the current research areas in nanoscience and nanotechnology. This book is suitable as a resource volume for a senior undergraduate or introductory graduate course in nanoscience and nanotechnolo