Applied Nanotechnology

Jeremy Ramsden was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Princeton and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he obtained his doctorate in the Institute of Chemical Physics for research into photocatalytic semiconductor nanoparticles. He was a visiting scientist at the Biocenter (Institute of Biophysics) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged (1987), after which he worked at the Biocenter (Institute of Biophysical Chemistry) of the University of Basle (member of the Faculty of Natural Philosophy) until being appointed (2002) Professor and Chair of Nanotechnology at Cranfield University in the UK. From 2003–9 he was also Research Director for Nanotechnology at Cranfield University at Kitakyushu in Japan. In 2012 he moved to the University of Buckingham (UK) as Honorary Professor of Nanotechnology. His main research focus nowadays is on nanosensors. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (London) and a IUPAC Fellow.

Part I Technology Basics1 What is Nanotechnology?2 Science, Technology and Wealth3 Innovation4 Why Nanotechnology?Part II Nanotechnology Products5 The Nanotechnology Business6 Miscellaneous Applications7 Energy8 Information Technologies9 HealthPart III Organizing Nanotechnology Business 10 The Business Environment11 The Fiscal Environment12 Regulation13 Nanotechnology companies14 The Geography of Nanotechnology15 Design of Nanotechnology Products IV Wider and Longer-Term Issues16 The Future of Nanotechnology17 Society’s Grand Challenges18 Ethics and Nanotechnology