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This book is a comprehensive text and a ready reckoner on the theory and applications of nanotechnology. It provides an insight into the history of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It discusses in-depth the optical, mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and catalytic properties of materials at nanoscale. It is a comprehensive discourse on nanostructured ferromagnetism, optical and vibrational spectroscopy, quantum wells, self-assembly, and biological materials at nanoscale.||About the Author: Charles P. Poole Jr., PhD, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina is a member of the USC nanotechnology center. Frank J. Owens, PhD, is a senior research scientist of the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center, and a professor of physics in the graduate school of Hunter College of the City University of New York. Both authors are Fellows of the American Physical Society.