Table Of Content7439tpCast.indd 1 7/21/09 2:29:13 PM
July21,2009 9:49 WSPC—NANOSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY—ReprintVolumeBook—TrimSize:-11inx8.5in Nanoscience
TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk
7439tpCast.indd 2 7/21/09 2:29:13 PM
A-PDF Merger DEMO : Purchase from www.A-PDF.com to remove the watermark
July21,2009 9:49 WSPC—NANOSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY—ReprintVolumeBook—TrimSize:-11inx8.5in Nanoscience
Published by
Macmillan Publishers Ltd
(trading as Nature Publishing Group)
4–6 Crinan Street
London N1 9XW
United Kingdom
and
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 Image: “Writing with electrons” copyright Hari Manoharan/Stanford University.
NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A Collection of Reviews from Nature Journals
Copyright © 2010 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited and published by World Scientific
Publishing Co. under licence.
All rights reserved.
ISBN-13978-981-4282-68-0
ISBN-10981-4282-68-5
Printed in Singapore.
July21,2009 9:49 WSPC—NANOSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY—ReprintVolumeBook—TrimSize:-11inx8.5in Nanoscience
v
CONTENTS
Editor’sIntroduction ix
PeterRodgers
Challenges andOpportunities forNanoscience andTechnology xi
JamesR.Heath
NANOMATERIALSANDNANOSTRUCTURES
Progresstowardsmonodisperse single-walled carbonnanotubes 3
MarkC.Hersam
Theriseofgraphene 11
A.K.Geim&K.S.Novoselov
Multiferroics: progress andprospects inthinfilms 20
R.Ramesh&NicolaA.Spaldin
Inorganic nanotubes andfullerene-like nanoparticles 29
R.Tenne
Theroleofinterparticle andexternalforcesinnanoparticle assembly 38
YounjinMin,MustafaAkbulut,KaiKristiansen, YuvalGolan&
JacobIsraelachvili
Complexthermoelectric materials 50
G.JeffreySnyder&EricS.Toberer
Solid-state nanopores 60
CeesDekker
Engineering atomicandmolecular nanostructures atsurfaces 67
Johannes V.Barth,Giovanni Costantini&KlausKern
MOLECULARMACHINESANDDEVICES
Makingmolecularmachineswork 79
WesleyR.Browne&BenL.Feringa
July21,2009 9:49 WSPC—NANOSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY—ReprintVolumeBook—TrimSize:-11inx8.5in Nanoscience
vi
Molecularlogicandcomputing 90
A.PrasannadeSilva&SeiichiUchiyama
Harnessing biological motorstoengineer systemsfornanoscale transport
andassembly 102
AnitaGoel&ViolaVogel
DesignedDNAmolecules: principles andapplications ofmolecular
nanotechnology 113
AnneCondon
DNAnanomachines 124
Jonathan Bath&AndrewJ.Turberfield
NANOELECTRONICS
Nanoelectronics fromthebottomup 137
WeiLu&CharlesM.Lieber
Theemergence ofspinelectronics indatastorage 147
ClaudeChappert, AlbertFert&Fre´de´ricNguyenVanDau
Nanoionics-based resistiveswitchingmemories 158
RainerWaser&MasakazuAono
Technology andmetrologyofnewelectronic materialsanddevices 166
EricM.Vogel
Carbon-based electronics 174
PhaedonAvouris,ZhihongChen&VasiliPerebeinos
Electrontransport inmolecularjunctions 185
N.J.Tao
Molecularspintronics usingsingle-molecule magnets 194
LapoBogani&WolfgangWernsdorfer
NANOPHOTONICS
Lightintinyholes 205
C.Genet&T.W.Ebbesen
Nano-optics fromsensingtowaveguiding 213
SurbhiLal,StephanLink&NaomiJ.Halas
Semiconductor quantum lightsources 221
AndrewJ.Shields
July21,2009 9:49 WSPC—NANOSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY—ReprintVolumeBook—TrimSize:-11inx8.5in Nanoscience
vii
Biomimeticsofphotonic nanostructures 230
AndrewR.Parker&HelenE.Townley
NANOBIOTECHNOLOGYANDNANOMEDICINE
Nanoparticle therapeutics: anemergingtreatmentmodalityforcancer 239
MarkE.Davis,Zhuo(Georgia)Chen&DongM.Shin
Neuroscience nanotechnology: progress, opportunities andchallenges 251
GabrielA.Silva
Thepotential andchallenges ofnanopore sequencing 261
DanielBrantonetal.
Atomicforcemicroscopy asamultifunctional moleculartoolbox in
nanobiotechnology 269
DanielJ.Mu¨ller&YvesF.Dufreˆne
Immunological properties ofengineered nanomaterials 278
MarinaA.Dobrovolskaia &ScottE.McNeil
Injectable nanocarriers forbiodetoxification 288
Jean-Christophe Leroux
SELECTEDAPPLICATIONS
Applications ofdip-pennanolithography 297
KhalidSalaita, YuhuangWang&ChadA.Mirkin
Biosensing withplasmonic nanosensors 308
JeffreyN.Anker,W.PaigeHall,OlgaLyandres,NilamC.Shah,
JingZhao&RichardP.VanDuyne
Materialsforelectrochemical capacitors 320
PatriceSimon&YuryGogotsi
Futurelab-on-a-chip technologies forinterrogating individual molecules 330
HaroldCraighead
Scienceandtechnology forwaterpurification inthecomingdecades 337
MarkA.Shannon, PaulW.Bohn,Menachem Elimelech,
JohnG.Georgiadis, BenitoJ.Marin˜as&AnneM.Mayes
July21,2009 9:49 WSPC—NANOSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY—ReprintVolumeBook—TrimSize:-11inx8.5in Nanoscience
TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk
July21,2009 9:49 WSPC—NANOSCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY—ReprintVolumeBook—TrimSize:-11inx8.5in Nanoscience
ix
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Review articles have an important role in science. New results are published in research
journals, andthemostsignificant results areeventually included inmonographs, andsome
even make it as far as the textbooks read by undergraduates. Review articles occupy the
space between journals and monographs, surveying recent progress in a well-defined area
ofresearch forthebenefitofthosealready inthefield,whilealsoacting asanintroduction
forthose researchers whomightbethinking ofmovinginto anewfield, andforthosewho
simplywanttolearnmoreaboutthesubject.
Review articles are particularly important in areas that are new and/or fast-moving,
whichincludes manyareas within nanoscience and technology. ThatiswhyNature Nano-
technology, NatureMaterials andmanyotherjournals fromNaturePublishing Grouppub-
lish review articles and progress articles (which are essentially short review articles). This
bookbringstogether35reviewandprogressarticlesfromeightdifferentNaturejournalsto
describe the state-of-the-art inmanyareas ofnanoscience and technology. Thesixchapter
titlesgiveanindication ofthebroadrangeoftopicscovered: nanomaterials andnanostruc-
tures; molecular machines and devices; nanoelectronics; nanophotonics; nanobiotechnol-
ogyandnanomedicine; andselected applications.
The research reported in these articles ranges from the most basic physics and chem-
istry through to applications as diverse as plasmonic nanosensors and water purification.
This spectrum of pure-to-applied research can often be seen in the same article: carbon
nanotubes, for example, are fascinating test beds for exploring a variety of fundamen-
tal physical phenomena in one dimension, while also displaying considerable potential as
a structural, photonic and electronic material (see p. 174). And despite the fact that it
is almost 20 years since Iijima’s breakthrough paper on nanotubes, researchers are still
developing better ways to produce and process them (see p. 3). The other areas of
nanoscience andtechnology coveredinthiscollection areequallyrichandcomplex.
The articles are prefaced by a new essay by James Heath of the California Institute of
Technology that looks at the challenges and opportunities facing researchers as they work
to convert the promise and potential of nanoscience and technology into useful products
and processes. Focusing on applications in energy and health, Heath outlines the funda-
mentalchallenges associated witheachapplication anddiscusses hownanotechnology can
beharnessed totacklethesechallenges.
Oneimportantareathatisunderrepresentedinthiscollectionistheimpactofengineered
nanomaterials on the environment and health. This does not reflect a lack of interest in
this area: Nature Nanotechnology, for instance, has published research on the effects of
exposing mice to carbon nanotubes,1,2 but it has not yet published any review articles on
nanotoxicology, or the effects of nanoparticles on the environment, because these subjects
have already been reviewed elsewhere (see, for example, Refs 3 and 4). However, the
chapter on nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine covers a wide range of topics including
nanoparticle therapeutics (p.239)andtheuseofnanopores tosequence DNA(p.261).
