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This category holds links for books on nanotechnology and very closely related issues. Several of these books are online.

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• Amazon.com Books: Nanotechnology

  http://www.amazon.com/s/url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Nanotechnology&Go.x=13&Go.y=12
  Lists books for sale on the topic of the Nanotechnology. Includes descriptions of individual books, reviews and purchase information.

• Chemistry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium

  http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540674603
  Edited by Luigi Fabbrizzi, Antonio Poggi; Springer-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 0387989889. Accessible treatment of molecular design, supramolecules, nanotechnology and beyond; 15 chapters by specialists. [Publisher website.]

• Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier

  http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5414.html
  Philip Ball; Princeton University Press, 1996, ISBN 0691029008. Accessible survey of new results in many major fields allied with chemistry: molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, smart polymer gels. [Princeton University Press]

• Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

  http://www.foresight.org/EOC/
  By K. Eric Drexler; Anchor Books, 1986, ISBN 0385199732. With a Foreword by Marvin Minsky, this is the first and still the classic book on nanotechnology. [Foresight Institute, Online]

• Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

  http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html
  Description, picture, links. [Anchor]

• Future Trends in Microelectronics: The Nano Millennium

  http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471212474.html
  Edited by Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu, Alex Zaslavsky; John Wiley and Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471212474. Based on ideas, discussions arising from 3rd Future Trends in Microelectronics (FTM) workshop series, summer 2001. [publisher website]

• Hacking Matter: Levitating Chairs, Quantum Mirages, and the Infinite Weirdness of Programmable Atoms

  http://www.wilmccarthy.com/hm.htm
  By Wil McCarthy; Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 046504428X. Programmable matter, via quantum dots, will someday change our lives. Author visits labs of major firms, talks to researchers developing this extraordinary technology. [SFF Net]

• Integrated Chemical Systems: A Chemical Approach to Nanotechnology

  http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471007331.html
  By Allen J. Bard; Wiley-Interscience, 1994, ISBN 0471007331. Systematic, real world approach to nanosystems, many actual examples, scores of figures and photo illustrations. [John Wiley and Sons]

• Introduction to Nanotechnology

  http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471079359,00.html
  By Charles P. Poole, Jr., Frank J. Owens; John Wiley and Sons, 2003, ISBN 0471079359. Broad, practical overview of topic, gives researchers coverage of developments in nanotechnology outside their fields. [publisher website]

• Molecular Engineering of Nanosystems

  http://www.springer.com/physics/biophysics+%26+biological+physics/book/978-0-387-98988-4
  By Edward A. Rietman; Springer-Verlag NY, 2001, ISBN 0387989889. Technical introduction. It is growing possible to manipulate biotic tissues and materials the size of individual cells, organelles, molecules. [Publisher's description.]

• Nano-Society - Pushing the Boundaries of Technology

  http://www.rsc.org/Shop/books/2009/9781847558831.asp
  This book puts a spotlight on some of the scientists who are pushing the boundaries of technology and it gives examples of their work and how they are advancing knowledge one little step at a time. The book shatters the monolithic term "nanotechnology" into the myriad of facets that it really is.

• Nanomedicine, Volume 1: Basic Capabilities

  http://www.nanomedicine.com/
  By Robert A. Freitas Jr.; Landes Bioscience, 1999, ISBN 157059645X, volume 1 of 3. About applying nanotechnology to medicine. [Online]

• Nanosystems Book Review

  http://science.slashdot.org/story/99/10/28/1133200/nanosystems
  By Chris Worth. K. Eric Drexler's textbook reviewed, followed by much interesting, lively debate. [Slashdot]

• Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

  http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471575186,00.html
  By K. Eric Drexler; John Wiley and Sons, 1992, ISBN 0471575186. Large, pioneering technical and mathematical text, may be author's greatest contribution to this field. [publisher website]

• Nanotechnology in Water Treatment Applications

  http://www.horizonpress.com/nanotechnology
  Reviews the current state-of-the-art research and development of different nanomaterials (nanostructured catalytic membranes, nanosorbents, nanocatalysts and bioactive nanoparticles) and their application in water treatment, purification and disinfection.

• Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World

  http://www.ourmolecularfuture.com/
  By Douglas Mulhall; Prometheus Books, 2002, ISBN 1573929921. Examines vast potential of new technologies to help us cope with many problems. Site has table of contents, excerpts, news release. [Prometheus Books Publishers]

• Porous III-V Semiconductors

  http://www.porous-35.com/
  Online book covering the fabrication and optical characterization of porous semiconductor structures using electrochemical etching as a nanostructuring technique.

• Semiconductors for Micro- and Nanotechnology: An Introduction for Engineers

  http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527302573.html
  By Jan G. Korvink, Andreas Greiner; John Wiley and Sons, 2002, ISBN 3527302573. Textbook on properties and behavior of semiconductors, how to use them to design and make micro- and nano-systems. [publisher website]

• The Investor's Guide to Nanotechnology & Micromachines

  http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471443557,00.html
  By Glenn Fishbine; John Wiley and Sons, 2002, ISBN 0471443557. First investment guide to fast emerging industry. In 2000, government and private investment topped $1 billion, should grow exponentially in future. [John Wiley and Sons]

• Thicker Than Blood

  http://www.thickerthanbloodthebook.com/
  A science fiction thriller set in the near future. It is about the introduction of nanotechnology into contemporary American society.

• Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution

  http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/
  By K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, Gayle Pergamit; William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991; Quill (reprint), 1993, ISBN 0688125735. Clear, nontechnical introduction to molecular manufacturing: what it is, and may make possible, dangers and opportunities. [Foresight Institute, Online]

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