Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nanotechnology overview -- There's plenty of room at the bottom : an invitation to enter a new field of physics / Richard P. Feynman -- Room at the bottom, plenty of tyranny at the top / Karl Hess -- National nanotechnology initiative : past, present, future / Mihail C. Roco -- Molecular and nanoelectronics -- Engineering challenges in molecular electronics / Gregory N. Parsons -- Molecular electronic computing architectures / James M. Tour and Dustin K. James -- Nanoelectronic circuit architectures / Wolfgang Porod -- Molecular computing and processing platforms / Sergey Edward Lyshevski -- Spin field effect transistors / Supriyo Bandyopadhyay and Marc Cahay -- Electron charge and spin transport in organic and semiconductor nanodevices : moletronics and spintronics / A.M. Bratkovsky -- Nanoarchitectonics : advances in nanoelectronics / Kang Wang [and others] -- Molecular machines / Brian H. Northrop [and others] -- Molecular electronics devices -- Molecular conductance junctions : a theory and modeling progress report / Vladimiro Mujica and Mark A. Ratner -- Modeling electronics at the nanoscale / Narayan R. Aluru [and others] -- Resistance of a molecule / Magnus Paulsson, Ferdows Zahid and Supriyo Datta. Manipulation and assembly -- Magnetic manipulation for the biomedical sciences / J.K. Fisher [and others] -- Nanoparticle manipulation by electrostatic forces / Michael Pycraft Hughes -- Biological- and chemical-mediated self-assembly of artificial micro- and nanostructures / S.W. Lee and R. Bashir -- Nanostructural architectures from molecular building blocks / Damian G. Allis and James T. Spencer -- Building block approaches to nonlinear macromolecules / Stephen A. Habay and Christian E. Schafmeister -- Introduction to nanomanufacturing / Ahmed Busnaina -- Textile nanotechnologies / B. Pourdeyhimi [and others] -- Functional structures -- Carbon nanotubes / M. Meyyappan and Deepak Srivastava -- MEchanics of carbon nanotubes / Dong Qian [and others] -- Dendrimers : an enabling synthetic science to controlled organic nanostructures / D.A. Tomalia, S.A. Henderson, and M.S. Diallo -- Design and applications of photonic crystals / Dennis W. Prather [and others] -- Progress in nanofluidics for cell biology / Todd Thorsen and Joshua S. Marcus -- Carbon nanostructures and nanocomposites / Yanhong Hu [and others] -- Contributions of molecular modeling to nanometer-scale science and technology / Donald W. Brenner [and others] -- Accelerated design tools for nanophotonic devices and applications / James P. Durbano [and others] -- Nanoparticles for drug delivery / Meredith L. Hans and Anthony M. Lowman.