Applied Nanotechnology, 3rd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Jeremy J. Ramsden     The University of Buckingham

During the four years that have elapsed since the first edition of this book was completed, many changes have taken place in the nanolandscape. There have been no exceptionally outstanding scientific or technical developments during this interval—although that remarkable nanomaterial graphene was propelled into prominence by the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics—mostly it has been a time of continuous progress on a broad front. On the other hand there has been a dramatic change in the social and economic landscape. The financial crisis had just begun in September 2008 (if we take the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the USA as the marker) and the recession in the ...