This book communicates, in easy-to-understand language, the sometimes tough-to-understand concepts of nanotechnology, providing a comprehensive reference for technically interested/trained laymen in the general public who want to learn more about this revolutionary, high-impact field of technology. The amount and level of math used in the pedagogy of the text has been minimized to cater to a general audience. The book includes behind-the-scenes stories of Nobel-prize-winning scientists-complete with eureka moments-as well as back-of-the-envelope calculations showing the real numbers of nanotechnology. Thematic figures have been created to pique the interest and guide readers.

Ben Rogers is a writer and an engineer (BS 2001; MS 2002, University of Nevada, Reno). He has done research at Nanogen, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and published many technical papers, as well as fictional works and essays (which can be found at http://www.readrogers.com). He is currently the principal engineer at NevadaNano.
Jesse Adams (BS 1996, University of Nevada; MS 1997 and PhD 2001, Stanford University) is the vice president and CTO of NevadaNano. He is working to bring multifunctional microsensor technology to the chemical sensing market space.

Sumita Pennathur is currently an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (BS 2000, MS 2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD 2005, Stanford University). She has been actively contributing to the fields of nanofluidics and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), and was awarded both a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) in 2011, and well as a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2008.

Big Picture of the Small World. Introduction to Miniaturization. Introduction to Nanoscale Physics. Nanomaterials. Nanomechanics. Nanophotonics. Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics. Nanobiotechnology. Nanomedicine.