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A new high-level book for professionals from Atlantis Press providing an overview of nanotechnologies now and their applications in a broad variety of fields, including information and communication technologies, environmental sciences and engineering, societal life, and medicine, with provision of customized treatments. The book shows where nanotechnology is now – a fascinating time when the science is transitioning into complex systems with impact on new products. Present and future developments are addressed, as well as a larger number of new industrial and research opportunities deriving from this domain. An overview for professionals, researchers and policy-makers of this very rapidly expanding field. Brief chapters and colour figures with a contained overall length make the book attractive at an attractive price – a must for every professional�s shelf. Mihail C. Roco, National Science Foundation and National Nanotechnology Initiative, wrote the preface underlying the importance and weight of the present book to this exciting and epoch-awakening field of research and applications: �Nanotechnology is well recognized as a science and technology megatrend for the beginning of the 21st century. This book aims to show where nanotechnology is now – transitioning to complex systems and fundamentally new products – and communicates the societal promise of nanotechnology to specialists and the public. Most of what has already made it into the marketplace is in the form of �First Generation� products, passive nanostructures with steady behaviour. Many companies have �Second Generation� products, active nanostructures with changing behaviour during use, and embryonic �Third Generation� products, including 3-dimensional nanosystems. Concepts for �Fourth Generation� products, including heterogeneous molecular nanosystems, are only in research.�Typham this is the title: Nanotechnology in a Nutshell From Simple to Complex Systems