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The potential for a varied range of applications makes a basic understanding of nanotechnology important to us. The technological and industrial sectors including electrical, agricultural, medical, and electronic technologies, homeland security and food safety, transportation, and many more have benefited greatly from the development and revolutionization brought about by nanotechnology. For the creation of novel materials with distinctive properties after the nanoscale specifies their architecture, nanotechnology now makes use of advancements in chemistry, mechanical, materials science, and biotechnology making it a multidisciplinary field. This book examines the recurrent applications of nanotechnology in recent decades. As a ground-breaking science, nanotechnology is defined by the impact it has on technological advancements. Nanotechnology is anticipated to offer solutions to many present issues. Thus, nanotechnology has a wide range of uses, from altering the physics of currently used devices to developing entirely new tactics based on molecular self-assembly, from developing novel materials with nanoscale dimensions to investigating whether we can directly control matter at the atomic level.

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  1. Centre for Nanotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Gurugram, India

    Deepa Suhag, Preeti Thakur & Atul Thakur

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    Deepa Suhag, Preeti Thakur & Atul Thakur

  3. Nanotechnology Wing, Innovative Science Research Society, Shimla, India

    Preeti Thakur & Atul Thakur

  4. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China

    Atul Thakur

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Suhag, D., Thakur, P., Thakur, A. (2023). Introduction to Nanotechnology. In: Suhag, D., Thakur, A., Thakur, P. (eds) Integrated Nanomaterials and their Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6105-4_1

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