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 PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS5. How nanotechnology fits into a modern industrial economy6. Nanotechnology for health7. Nanotechnology for energy8. Nano-info technology9. Other applications10. The design of nanotechnology products11. The realization of nanotechnology products

PART III ORGANIZING NANOTECHNOLOGY BUSINESS12. The business environment13. The fiscal environment14. The safety of nanotechnology15. Regulatory, legal and insurance matters16. Case studies of successful and unsuccessful nanotechnology companies17. Global nanotechnology

PART IV. WIDER AND LONGER-TERM ISSUES18. The future of nanotechnology19. Can nanotechnology meet society’s grand challenges?20. The impacts of nanotechnology