7Scientific Book ReviewactionURI(https://books.google.com/books?id=KGqSxqyqa10C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&dq=Introduction+to+Nanoscience,+S.+M.+Lindsay&source=bl&ots=nVrno_PHRS&sig=XXl4pKPgq4Oya09TdXkoYVDE9pI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4ynZVNlNwaPIBJiegIgE&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Introduction%20to%20Nanoscience%2C%20S.%20M.%20Lindsay&f=false):Introduction to NanoscienceactionURI(https://books.google.com/books?id=KGqSxqyqa10C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&dq=Introduction+to+Nanoscience,+S.+M.+Lindsay&source=bl&ots=nVrno_PHRS&sig=XXl4pKPgq4Oya09TdXkoYVDE9pI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4ynZVNlNwaPIBJiegIgE&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Introduction%20to%20Nanoscience%2C%20S.%20M.%20Lindsay&f=false): By S. M. LindsayOxford University Press, New York, 2009, 472 pages, ISBN: 978-0199544219.I received this book a couple of years ago and it has been sitting on my shelf waiting for me to read and review it since. As the title suggests, this is a book about the fundamentals of nanoscience. It is a textbook and, as such, covers just about every topic I studied as an undergraduate student in chemistry: organic and physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, solid state physics, instrumentation thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and so on, albeit in an order much different than I learned them in school. It was published in late 2009 and, while current then, is missing some of the new materials developed since. Keep in mind this is an introduction, so the basics are timeless. I would suggest the reader start with Appendix B, a transcript of the 1959 lecture by Richard Feynman to the AIP meeting titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". This lecture may be considered the point of inception of nanoscience, even though many of tools and techniques were already coming into existence by the time of the lecture. Chapter 1 covers the basics of nanoscience, including an analysis of the aforementioned Feynman lecture and how many of the predictions he got right (and not quite right). Part 1 consists of Chapters 2 and 3, and exposes the reader to the tools needed to understand the topics discussed in Part 2. Chapter 2 covers the basics of quantum mechanics. Chapter 3 follows with a discussion about statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Part 2 looks at the tools needed to explore the nanoworld. Chapter 4 reviews instru-mentation, covering scanning tunneling, atomic force and electron microscopy, fluorescence techniques, and tools for physical manipulation of tiny objects. Chapter 5 reviews the processes of top-down construction of materials as is done in the semiconductor industry. Chapter 6 covers the bottom-up production of materials, starting with organic chemistry and biochemistry and ending with a discus-sion about DNA manipulation. Part 3 consists of four chapters that look at the applications of nanoscience. This section includes chapters on electrons in nanostruc-tures, molecular electronics, and properties of nanostructures, and ends with a chapter on molecular biology. There is a plethora of appendices covering minute (pun intended) details on topics covered in the main text. The book also came with a CD containing movies and animated GIFs that demonstrate things like Brownian motion, DNA tethering, etc. One of the movies has a typo that I found some-what humorous. When I was a student, my advisor taught me that "anyone who spells asymmetric with two esses is an a??." I leave it you to find the misspelling. Joseph D. Ferrara, Ph.D. Chief Science Officer
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