Chin Wee (National University of Singapore) Shong & Chorng Haur (National University of Singapore) Sow 
Science at the Nanoscale [PDF ebook] 
An Introductory Textbook

Nanotechnology is one of the most important growth areas of this century. Nanoscience, the science underpinning nanotechnology, is a multidisciplinary subject covering atomic, molecular and solid state physics, and much of chemistry. Nanostructures are known to exhibit novel and improved material properties, fundamentally because the physical and c