This is believed to be the first book that takes a view of nanotechnology from a telecommunications and networking perspective. Nanotechnology refers to the manipulation of materials at the atomic or molecular level. Nanotechnology is getting a lot of attention of late not only in academic settings and in laboratories around the world, but also in government and venture capitalists’ initiatives. There now is a major drive to commercialize the technology by all sorts of firms, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. At the start of the decade, Charles Vest, the president of MIT, observed: “We are just beginning to understand how to use nanotechnology to build.
