Nanotechnology is the next revolution in our daily lives, which is already under way, with its amazing applications in electronics, biology, physics, materails and engineering. The book explains the basics of the new technology, its historical development, and the ongoing advances, including the pioneering work done in India. This is a non-technicalpreview of the wide range of applications based on anomaterials, especially in detecting genetic defects.
I welcome this book written for the lay reader by an eminent science communicator. He has provided and excellent introduction to the subject and a balanced presentation. I hope the book will motivate young people to take up nanoscience and nanotechnology for study.
C.N.R Rao
Linus Pauling Professor and Honorary President Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
About the Author
Mohan Sundara Rajan is an eminent science communicator, who won the National Award for Outstanding effort in Popular Science Communication(2005), given by the National Council for Science and Technology Communicaton, New Delhi, He is the author of several popular Science books including Wireless: The Telecome Story, Space Today and Telescopes in INdia, Published by NBT. He is also the recipient of Soviet Land Nehru Award and the Akashvani Award. He served the Asian Development Bank, Manila, as its editor for over a decade.