Research Guide to Nanotechnology

Platinum Nanocages for nanotagging: Sandia National Laboratories	Carbon nano-tubes for H2 storage: Savannah River National Laboratory

Background materials: vocabulary and concepts

• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
• Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology, Stacks T174.7 S67 2004

 

Books:

Subject Search for Nano at SCSU: Nanoparticles, Nanoscience, Nanostructures, Nanotechnology, etc.

Call number for general nanotechnology books: T174.7 (at SCSU)

Examples:

• Unbounding the future: the nanotechnology revolution / K. Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson, with Gayle Pergamit. New York : Morrow, c1991. T45 .D74 1991
• Our molecular future: how nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence will transform our world by Douglas Mulhall. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002. T174.7 .M85 2002

           

Nanochemistry/Nanostructures: QC176.8.N35 (at SCSU)

Example:

• Nanoparticles : from theory to application. Edited by Günter Schmid. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2004.  QC176.8.N35 N354 2004 

 

Other books are in sections related to the application of nanotechnology, for instance medicine & nanotechnology or environment & nanotechnology

Examples:

• Nanoparticles and the environment.  Editors: Jillian F. Banfield, Alexandra Navrotsky. Washington, DC : Mineralogical Society of America, c2001. TA418.78 .N338 2001
• Citizen Cyborg: why democratic societies must respond to the redesigned human of the future by James Hughes. Cambridge, MA : Westview Press, c2004. RA418.5.M4 H84 2004

Journals:

Specific journals about Nanotechnology

• Nano Today
  http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/science/journal/17480132
• AZojono http://www.azonano.com/nanotechnology%20journal.asp
• More Nano Journals

 

Searching for articles on Nanotechnology:

• ScienceDirect (Science journals including Nano Today)
• American Chemical Society Journals (Chemistry journals -- Note: we do not have a subscription to ACS Nano or Nanotechnology Letters)
• ACM Digital Library (Computer science journals)
• Medline (Medical journals, good for medical aspects of nanotechnology
• SocIndex (Sociology journals, good for social and medical aspects of nanotechnology)
• Academic Search Premier (Scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in a variety of fields; good for non-science aspects of nanotechnology)
• Science Reference Center (Science journals, magazines, reference books, images, and video, for all audiences from researchers to kids)

 

Useful websites:

• ScienceDaily’s Nanotechnology News (see sidebar): http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/nanotechnology/
• Intute Nanotechnology Internet Guide:
  http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=25723  
• MIT Library’s Nanotechnology Internet Guide: http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/nano/internet.html
• National Nanotechnology Initiative: http://www.nano.gov/
• Institute of Nanotechnology (UK): http://www.nano.org.uk/ (includes an Image Gallery)
• Foresight Nanotechnology Institute: http://www.foresight.org/nano/index.html
• AZoNano – A to Z of Nanotechnology: http://www.azonano.com/ (As a commercial site, AZoNano is heavily ad supported, which can be slightly confusing—the videos, however, are especially good.)
• Exploring the NanoWorld: http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/index.html (the Intro to Nano is very good; plus a full nanotech curriculum for science teachers)