I am delighted to author Profit From
Nanotechnology. This book contains the fascinating information for
everyone who is interested in, nanotechnology the most recent technology from
beginners to professionals/ students.
Now a days, nano is the buzz word. Every nano
professional is confident in projecting that it will revolutionize our life.
Reports from the US and the West claim that market for nanotechnology will be
over 1 trillion dollar in next 8 to 10 years. In India, people specially
students and even professionals' look it as next revolution after Information
Technology & Telecom . Number of products using nanotechnology are slowly
entering in our daily life.
Undoubtedly, nanotechnology can change our
life in big way. It is revolutionizing the important areas like medical
science, electronics, computer science, textiles, robotics, and energy. It will
also affect virtually every field, to name a few manufacturing, chemical,
agriculture, etc. Importance of nanotechnology has been recognized by
Nobel committee by conferring the Nobel Prize to Dr. Richard Smalley in 1996
for discovering the fullerenes and to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg in 2007
for discovering giant magneto resistance .
Nanotechnology is not a new technology
although it has come into light recently. Mother nature is using
nanotechnology from the start of this universe. Even in this present era,
many researchers in the middle of twentieth century worked in this area but
their limited success was due to lack of instrumental support. The present fame
of nanotechnology can be attributed to discovery of carbon nanotubes, giant
magneto resistance, fullerenes etc. Rapid advancement in instrumentation
such as Transmission Electron Microscope, Scanning Tunneling
Microscope, Atomic Force Microscope, Electron Energy Loss
Spectroscopy, etc. has made the deep study of nanotechnology possible
now.
I have tried to cover most of the disciplines
by choosing 17 among them. Every chapter consists of detailed
aspects of nanotechnology in selected discipline including present scenario,
applications, prospects and information on some relevant top
companies with their coordinates and brief profiles of associated
companies & institutions.
I hope this book will succeed in its objective
of providing a clear understanding of this wonderful technology to all its
readers.
Dr.
Jagjiwan Mittal