Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is about controlling and understanding matter on the nanometer and atomic scale. The development of sophisticated new laboratory techniques recently allowed scientists to monitor, measure, and manipulate matter at the nanoscale level. This ability to precisely control atoms and build molecules at extremely small length scales holds the promise for unprecedented breakthroughs in healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, and national security in what some are calling a nanoscience and nanotechology revolution. The book consists of four chapters related to...

Structural and Morphological Evolution in Metal-Organic Films and Multilayers presents major results of the authors work carried out on Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers. The authors address two important questions:

• Are metal-organic monolayer systems more like solids or more like liquids?
• Does a two-dimensional system have different kind of bonds than a bulk or three-dimensional body?

The book reveals the richness hidden in these supposedly well-known systems, including saturated, aliphatic fatty...